moomin comic strip to be reprinted!!

what does comic collection mean? comicbook? Kometjakten is the name of the first moomin book (actually the second, but the first to be translated into english)

wiki: "In 1952, after Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British publisher asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins. Jansson had already drawn a long Moomin comic adventure, Mumintrollet och jordens undergång ("Moomintrolls and the End of the World"), based loosely on Comet in Moominland, for the Finland-Swedish newspaper Ny Tid, and she accepted the offer. The comic strip Moomintroll, started in 1954 in the Evening News, a newspaper for the London area and London commuters (no longer in business). Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson. She eventually gave the strip up because the daily work of a comic artist did not leave her time to write books and paint, but Lars took over the strip and continued it until 1975."

haha wiki also says when she worked for the satirical mag garm in the 30s she drew a famous cartoon of hitler as a screaming baby with politicians like neville chamberlain trying to placate him with cake!

One thing I like about the Moomin comics is that, even thouh they have gags and all, the individual stories are really long. Most of the Finnish collections have only two big stories per book, they must've ran for several months in the papers.

the first volume of this is the loveliest designed book i own, but the comic totally seems to be still finding its feet in it: the last story, with the moomin-ancestors, mymble, the professor, and the pirates, is fantastic though.

second one out soon apparently. does anyone know whether d&q are going to do the lars janssen years as well?

they say they're not.

well, bummer.

otm.

The series does indeed get better as it goes on, the later Tove strips and the sixties Lars strips are the best in my opinion. It's too bad if they're not reprinting Lars's run, it's not like there's much of a difference difference between them, and as I said before, the series gets even better when Lars steps in. You should organize a campaign to get the Lars strips reprinted too, the late sixties stories where he makes gentle fun on the phenomena of that era (like hippies, gurus, and drugs) are a treat.

they say they're not.

― energy flash gordon, Friday, 13 July 2007

Three years later, Tom Devlin announces they will be moving on to do Lars as well.

so psyched for more of these! good news.

so does this new "Deluxe" collection have everything?

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/30/moomin-eccentric-comic-mas.html

Well, considering the strip ran for 20 years, I doubt it... It might have all the Tove strips, though? But there's twice as much of the Lars strips. The D&Q reprints are apparently up to 10 books by now.

OK the D&Q site says that it's all of the Tove ones, good enough for me!

sooo, then what's the deal with all the separate standalone books they are coming out with?

e.g.

Moomin and the Martians
Moomin on the Riviera
Moomin and the Golden Tail
Moomin's Desert Island
Moomin and The Sea
Moomin and the Comet
Moomin Builds A House
Moomin Falls In Love
Moomin's Winter Follies
Moominvalley Turns Jungle
Who Will Comfort Toffle?
The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My

are these just stories from the strip?

The first eight are storylines from the strip, I think. Who Will Comfort Toffle? is not a comic but a kids' picture book, it's really pretty. Not sure about the last one, it might be another picture book? Tove made a handful of those, they have these lavish illustrations and were really cool to read as a kid.

excellent, thanks

Yeah, I think the last one is another picture book. I remember fruitlessly searching for the last two at the library a couple of years back.

Who Will Comfort Toffle? is amazingly poignant and beautiful! Kids' picture book in the Moomin universe; the Groke features and the Moominfamily/Snorkmaiden appear at a distance iirc but it's I guess not quite a Moomin book per se

wondering which translation it is as a new one came out a few years ago

sorry, no idea about the others but will be keeping my eyes open for them

Ah, okay now I know what "The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My" is, it's another picture book, also very beautiful! The catch in that book is that there's always a hole in each page, showing something from the next/previous page spread, and the hole is integrated into the art and story, so the characters are following the wholes from one spread to another.

You can see some pages of it if you google the Finnish title.

aw man I totally need that!

That sounds awesome!

Likewise re Googling, the Swedish title of Who Will Comfort Toffle? offers some pages and there's even a Swedish musical animated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSYkx3OYixA

(don't watch the whole thing if you don't want the plot spoiled I guess, but you're probably fine to skip through the first 16-17 minutes)

The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My is great - my daughter loves it, though the carefully cut pages are vulnerable to her poking at the various holes, gaps, pipes,etc, the characters crawl through

waht

https://www.moomin.com/en/moominvalley/

anyone seen it yet?

Music is an immediate turn off

apparently 1 in 4 Finnish people watched the 1st episode?