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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Two
Tove Jansson
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Description for Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Two
Hardcover. In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. Num Pages: 96 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 684. The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. 96 pages, b&w. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WHC. Dimension: 310 x 221 x 16. Weight: 696.
In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. ... Read more
In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
680g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781897299197
SKU
V9781897299197
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was born in Helsinki and spent much of her life in Finland. She is the author of the Moomin books, including Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll. Born into an artistic family--her father was a sculptor and her mother was a graphic designer and illustrator--Jansson studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in ... Read more
Reviews for Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Two
A lost treasure now rediscovered
one of the sweetest, strangest comic strips ever drawn or written. A Surrealist masterpiece. Honest.
Neil Gaiman [Jansson's] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive . . . Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, ... Read more
one of the sweetest, strangest comic strips ever drawn or written. A Surrealist masterpiece. Honest.
Neil Gaiman [Jansson's] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive . . . Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, ... Read more