Moomin

Resumen del libro

The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin

Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of world's largest newspaper the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in 40 countries. Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn x{0026} Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century.

The Moomins are a tight-knit family hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson's Nordic roots. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson's observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.

Biografía del autor

Tove Jansson (Helsinki 1914-2001) nació en el seno de una familia de artistas pertenecientes a la minoría finlandesa de habla sueca. De padre escultor y madre ilustradora, estudió pintura en Estocolmo y posteriormente en París. Al volver a Finlandia, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ejerció como historietista satírica de clara voluntad antifascista. Famosa mundialmente por sus libros infantiles x{0026} x02014;en 1966 obtuvo el Premio Hans Christian Andersen por el conjunto de su obra dedicada al público infantilx{0026} x02014;, en la década de los setenta comenzó a publicar también textos destinados a los lectores adultos, entre los que se incluyen Juego limpio y El libro del verano, publicado en esta misma colección. En 1992 recibió el Premio Literario Selma Lagerlöf, que celebra la trayectoria de un escritor en idioma sueco.