Moomin - Book 3
"A lost treasure now rediscovered - one of the sweetest, strangest comics strips ever drawn or written. A surrealist masterpiece. Honest." - Neil Gaiman
At its heart it is a strip for adults, but its lighthearted humour and child-friendly drawings make it the perfect gift for all ages.
This third volume returns to Moominvalley, where its beloved inhabitants get tangled up in five new stories. Moomin falls in love with a damsel in distress, an unseasonably warm spell turns the valley into a tropical rainforest, and a flying saucer crashes into Moominmamma’s garden. Moominpappa decides to live out his dream of occupying a lighthouse and writing a great seaside novel, only to discover that he hates the sea so close up and has no interest in writing about it, and a variety of curious clubs spring up in the valley. Moomin and Moominmamma do their level best to avoid the whole mess but, of course, get drawn into the muddle.
Janssons observations of everyday life—whimsical but with biting undertones—easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.
Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost childrens authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated Moomin chapter books. The D+Q reprint series collects Janssons internationally syndicated Moomin comic strip that debuted in the London Evening News in 1954.
Materials
Hardcover
