Moomin Adventures: Book One

By Lars and Tove Jansson

’The classic comic strip by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson in an entirely new paperback series!’

The first book of a new five-volume softcover series reintroduces the timeless Moomin comic stories by Tove and Lars Jansson in softcover to a new generation of readers.

Moomin Adventures: Book One starts with the well-known story Moomin on the Riviera, which has also been adapted into an animated film. The Moomin family, Snorkmaiden and Little My sail to the Riviera and find themselves on an adventurous holiday.

The Moomin comics debuted internationally in the London Evening News in 1954. After its original appearance in the 50s, the comics were next published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in 2006 as a series of ten volumes compiling all Moomin comics was published. The series has since sold more than 500,000 volumes. 

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The Moomin comics were originally created by Tove Jansson and her brother Lars Jansson for the Evening News, based in London and at the time the world’s biggest newspaper. The comic was commissioned in the 1950s, and the creative siblings produced the daily adventures of the classic Moomin characters for over 20 years.The comics were syndicated to 120 newspapers in over 40 countries, reaching more than 20 million readers daily. The comics are now being collected and published in chronological order by Drawn & Quarterly, once again attaining worldwide success.The charming new collections consist some of the most whimsical and fascinating stories from the Moomin world and display the fine illustrations that any Moomin fan will appreciate.