Moomin comic strips

Moomin (Swedish: Mumin / Mumintrollen; Finnish: Muumipeikko) is a comic strip created by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson, and followed up by her younger brother Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters. The first comic strip, entitled Mumintrollet och jordens undergång (Moomintroll and The End of The World) was for the Finland newspaper Ny Tid. It was written between 1947 and 1948, at the request of the editor, a friend of Jansson's, Atos Wirtanen. The series was mainly an adaptation of Comet in Moominland. The main series of Moomin comic strips was made directly for the British market: they were distributed by the Associated Newspapers comic strip syndicate, initially appearing in London's Evening News newspaper. The series was printed in newspapers from 1954 to 1971. At its peak, Moomin appeared in around 40 countries and some 120 newspapers, with over 20 million readers daily. The original comic strip stories by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson have been adapted into the Moomin (1990) anime series and the 2014 animated film based on Moomin on the Riviera comic strip story. Tove and Lars Jansson received the Finnish Comics Society's Puupää's Hat award in 1980.