Moomins, By Gum

[akirlu]

Well, it's about bloody time. The Canadian graphic novel publishing concern, Drawn & Quarterly, will be bringing out the complete Tove Jansson-drawn Moomin comic strips, in five volumes, starting this fall. Apparently this is, as I had long suspected, the first time the comics have been published in North America at all. Which is just nuts, really. Because Jansson is just bloody brilliant. [click on the link for the pdf there] And it isn't even as if they had to be translated -- they were originally published in English, in the London Evening News. In the mid-1950s. I have been muttering under my breath for years now that someone needs to do re-issues of the bound comic collections that were a staple of my childhood.

Well, thank god for the Canadians. I would say get your pre-order in now, but apparently these guys at D+Q don't believe in that stuff. But somebody nudge brisingamen and groliffe, 'cause they're gonna want these when they're out.

Link thanks to jrittenhouse. Thanks, Jim!!

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Moomins! I must have! I must have!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes. See, I'm thinking there's a small-but-avid following of Tove Jansson who will be of the same mind. Which is why I wrote a little note to the publisher suggesting that they might want to make it possible to pre-order the books.