Tove Jansson RIP

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

i only just found out how to pronounce little my the other day cuz i met a swedish girl who's name was my

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...

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.

you pronounce it like 'mu' the greek letter - or that's what it sounded like to me

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.

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.

I wz sure they announced 4 but would be pleased to be wrong

SO ANNNOYING that the vols aren't numbered btw!

coming out on Dec. 8!

http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product-file/51/thet9251/product.jpg

this book was harsh

yeah it was

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

http://www.themillions.com/2014/10/ruthless-beautiful-dangerous-comforting-how-it-is-in-the-world-of-tove-jansson.html

Box set of the Tove vols of the strip coming out for Christmas.

I still need the last two of those

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.

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.

the recent biopic is on bbc4 in the obvious slot this Saturday

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

!!

It's true.

https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson

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.

it only went up fri night so possibly not but thames & hudson US know abt it (and provided the images)

Good that, Mark.

seconded

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/24137675/snufkin-melody-of-moominvalley-review-nintendo-switch-pc

Oh hell yeah I'm trying this out