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

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're welcome - I never saw any of these. I'm also highly interested in the video stuff, but...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I never saw any of these.

No, I would imagine not. Unless you were growing up in Scandinavia in the early '60s, there's not much reason you should be. I don't think the full strips have ever been collected in English. Actually, I think there was a reissue in Sweden some years back, but I don't get the sense that the editions were even as nice as the paperbound hardcovers I have (much worse for the wear) copies of.