i just got all four volumes of the comics as a birthday present, and i think they're pretty cool. a somewhat different tone than the books yeah, but nicely peculiar and very identifiably moominish.
plus: they look nice on the bookshelf.
http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/images/moomin/moomincover.gif
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
just picked one up at the ny book festival -- totally amazing
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
They're beautiful. Is vol 4 going to be the last?
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think there's one more to come.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, when I say "one" I mean a Tove Jansson book, but not one of the comics volumes.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
#4 is the last of the all-Tove or Tove/Lars comics. There’s enough material for another 1 volume of just Tove/Lars, and then 15 or so of all-Lars strips, but D&Q announced upfront that they would stop at the end of the Tove-only material.
― Young Scott Young (sic), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a Vol. 4? I thought I only needed to add Vol. 3 to my collection. I got a picture book at the Brooklyn Book Festival too (last year I got Vol. 2 there). I think this is the same one that Hurting got: The Book About Moomin, Mimble and Little My
http://www.moomintrove.com/images/0953522741-0-large.jpg
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i only just found out how to pronounce little my the other day cuz i met a swedish girl who's name was my
― just sayin, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
uh-oh, how do you pronounce it? i've just been using the english pronunciation all these years, it could change my whole idea of the character if i have to say it differently...
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
so is vol. 4 the last one? d&q initially announced 5, but i can't find anything on their site that says one way or another whether 4's the end.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
you pronounce it like 'mu' the greek letter - or that's what it sounded like to me
― just sayin, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys should write some angry letters to D&Q to get them to release the Lars strips too. They're in no way worse to the Tove ones, the art may be somewhat inferior, but the plots get even more wacky and groovy. At least they should reprint the story where the Moomins travel to "Torrelorca" and buy some mind-expanding "LBJ" pills from a local drug den; that one is a genuine cultural artefact of the early 70s, and funny as hell too.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I wz sure they announced 4 but would be pleased to be wrong
SO ANNNOYING that the vols aren't numbered btw!
― Young Scott Young (sic), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
coming out on Dec. 8!
http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product-file/51/thet9251/product.jpg
― clotpoll, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
this book was harsh
― clotpoll, Saturday, 2 January 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it was
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure how many ilxors there are in NW England, and of those there's likely only a small subset who will be interesed, but this looks great:
Moominvalley at Bury Art Gallery
― Bill A, Thursday, 14 October 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.themillions.com/2014/10/ruthless-beautiful-dangerous-comforting-how-it-is-in-the-world-of-tove-jansson.html
― JoeStork, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
Box set of the Tove vols of the strip coming out for Christmas.
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
I still need the last two of those
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Reread The True Deceiver this weekend, such a remarkable book. No wasted space, no false sentiments. I hadn't realized there were more story collections released in the U.K., I'm unclear on how they line up with the US collections.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
There's also two picture books for tots: Moomin Mymble and Little My (which has holes cut in the pages so you can see thru to the next bit of the story!! Fuck you BSJohnson you plagiarist HACK!!) and Who Will Comfort Toffle?
my wife found the first one of these at a library sale, we were amazed cuz we did not know about them. her 3-year-old granddaughter loves the book! now I will be on the search for the second one.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
the recent biopic is on bbc4 in the obvious slot this Saturday
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
I once sat in school for hours - no, it was DAYS! - and copied out page after page of - what's it called? - Moominvalley in Winter, I think.The clocks stopped ticking one by one.― the pinefox, Friday, 29 June 2001 01:00 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the pinefox, Friday, 29 June 2001 01:00 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink
!!
― mark s, Thursday, 9 June 2022 10:47 (one year ago) link
It's true.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 June 2022 11:12 (one year ago) link
https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson
― mark s, Sunday, 18 December 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
Do you know if Paul Gravett has seen this, Mark? I'm sure he would like to share such a nice review on Facebook etc.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 18 December 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
it only went up fri night so possibly not but thames & hudson US know abt it (and provided the images)
― mark s, Sunday, 18 December 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Good that, Mark.
― djh, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
seconded
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/reviews/24137675/snufkin-melody-of-moominvalley-review-nintendo-switch-pc
Oh hell yeah I'm trying this out
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 29 April 2024 09:50 (five days ago) link