The Moomins are a tight-knit family-hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks.
Tove Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or on 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. This is the first volume; collect all three!
Written and illustrated by Tove Jansson
