Mumin. Las tiras completas de Tove Jansson 2

Moomin Comic Strip #5-8

by Tove Jansson, Elena Marti Segarra (Traducción)

Bienvenidos al fascinante mundo imaginario del Valle de los Mumin, donde es imposible no enamorarse de inmediato de sus habitantes: tiernos soñadores, maquinadores irascibles, y creativos y curiosos, siempre en busca de amor, fama y fortuna. Tal vez sea por las pocas aptitudes de Mumintroll para la construcción, la desesperación de la Mimbla para llamar la atención de don Fresco, la rigidez de la señora Filifionka a la hora de cuidad de la casa y de sus hijos o la llegada de profetas al valle proclamando excéntricas formas de vivir, pero las encantadoras y dispares historias de Tove Jansson harán las delicias tanto de los más devotos como de los iniciados. «No vamos a hibernar. ¡Crearemos otras tradiciones!»

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Finnish Literature

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.

Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.

Jansson's Moomin books have been translated into 33 languages.

Reviews

[Alberto Martín de Hijas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Más tiras de Jansson, autora de gran éxito en todo el mundo pero a la que no se suele reconocer tanto en el mundillo de los cómics. Historias de sátira y humor absurdo, tiernas y un tanto melancólicas pero a la vez afiladas. Muy recomendable.

[Dr. K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moomins are so silly and I love them so much.

Not sure what else to say in the review. It's moomins. It's good. This particular collection has my favorite moomin panel: where moominpapa goes to read Agatha Christie in a tree with a bottle of wine and says that all responsibilities are a nuisance. He was so real for that. 4.5 stars rounded up.

(Part of my quest to read all the moomin comics my library owns cause they have the cool vintage oversized editions.)

[Nora · Rating 3 out of 5]

I still remember reading the first volume of these while backpacking across Scandinavia with the boyfriend. We found the impratical hardcover in Tampere, Finland and lugged it around with us there on. We went there to visit the Moomin museum and were hoping to go the theme park in Naantalin later, but this one was closed during Winter. We were obsessed (we still are), and our sweet childhood memories had in common that many were spent eating cereal in the morning while watching the cartoon. These little hedonistic, hippo-like creatures have everything to enrapture children's imagination. We were shocked though to discover that the comics actually target grown-ups as well, with its satirical tone and brilliant sociological analysis. They are incredibly funny! My boyfriend later got me the second volume in Dublin, and while I can't say that it got me enthused in the same manner as the first, I still think it's a very good read with many pearls of wisdom.
Favourite quote: Moomin Mama's maid: You just pretend and pretend!
Moomin Mama: That's why we have such a good time!

--
moira

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

More gentle satire from Jansson, with religion, sport and interfering neighbours all coming under the spotlight in Moomin Valley, where the cutest family of trolls you've ever seen live. I think I prefered the first volume of the comic strip to this one and the first novel, too.

[Hà Linh · Rating 5 out of 5]

món hời nhất mình từng lụm được ở Bookworm

[Elizabeth A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book blurb: In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention.

This volume collects stories #5-8.

5. Moomin's Winter Follies - 3 stars.
In which the Moomins decide to not do as their ancestors did, skip hibernation, and try out winter sports. A new heartthrob creates ripples in this idyllic valley.

6. Moominmamma's Maid - 4 stars.
In which a new neighbor shames the Moomin family for their lackadaisical housekeeping. My favorite story in this installment.

7. Moomin Builds a House - 3 stars.
In which a visitor with 17 kids come to stay, and it's all too much. Moomin decides to build his own house, and learns some lessons along the way.

8. Moomin Begins a New Life - 3 stars.
In which a traveling prophet may hold the key to happiness, but do the Moomins really need it?

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ten years ago, I learned about Moomin while visiting a bakery in Helsinki. There were cookies shaped like Moomin, and I asked, "What cartoon character is that?"
The baker looked shocked, then amused. "You don't know who Moomin is?"
"No ... Why? Is it important?"
"It's a book. Very popular here and in Japan. Everybody knows it."

I went straight to a large bookstore after that and saw the baker had been right. There were a lot of Moomin books, positioned prominently in the store. I picked up vol. 1 in English and finished it by the end of the trip, so that I'll forever associate Moomin with Helsinki and cardamom cinnamon rolls.
Which is to say, I can't give this book anything less than five stars. It was, after all, a great trip.

[Eddie Watkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

What wonders and what wise innocence, what silliness and depth.

I especially liked "Moomin Mamma's Maid" from which I learned a thing or two about the ills of excessive tidiness and order, and "Moomin Begins a New Life" which could teach everyone a thing or two about mindlessly following extremists and thus straying from one's inner comic compass.

[Mimi · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Moomin Mamma's Maid" was my favorite, and it'd deserve a five star rating. I enjoyed the others as well, but not quite as much, so four stars it is!

[Jon Von · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite as strong as the first collection but still very good

[Drew Canole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Collects stories 5-8

5 Moomin's Winter Follies
Another fun adventure with the Moomin family. This time they compete in some Winter Olympic games after failing at hibernation. The host is aggressive and full of himself but the girls really like him.

6 Moominmamma's Maid
This one had some interesting pathos and psychology.

The Moomin's live life carefree but a neighbour persuades them to hire a maid who happens to be the neighbour's maid's sister. The maid comes and she's extremely on edge with a persecution complex. It turns out her sister has been pretending she's a success. The Moomin's finally encourage the maid to try to play pretend and do things that scare her and have a meeting with the sister. Eventually she does cheer up.

7 Moomin Builds a House
Mymble's family comes for a visit. Her mom has 17 tiny (and evil) Mymbles! They try to get her to leave but eventually Moomin decides to build a house for himself. It doesn't go too well but in the end he's got a pretty eclectic building that is certainly not up to code. He ends up gifting the building to Mymble's family.

8 Moomin Starts A New Life
This one features a prophet who convinces the people of Moominvalley to change their lives and live free! No more household chores or laws. It's definitely the most wild of the series thus far. It ends with two different prophets battling it out. It's interesting to see how impressionable the Moomins are, perhaps an analogy for childhood.

[michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love you moomin!!

moomin before bed is always a good idea. i loved reading winter follies because i have a little notebook i got from the moomin store in london with one of the panels on there of moomin and snorkmaiden! so cute seeing it in its context

[Superstine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Elsker dette!

8/10 ✨️

[Elina Mäkitalo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tykkäsin edelleen näistä muumisarjakuvista. Ehkä ei ihan niin hyviä sarjakuvia kuin ekassa osassa mutta aika hyviä kuitenkin. Pieni miinus, samoin kuin ykkösosassakin, eli mustavalkoiset kuvat eivät olleet niin houkuttelevia lukea mutta ei ollenkaan pahimmasta päästä ole tämä kuvitus vaan oikeastaan aika hyvää.

[Mariel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moomin stroked my inner child and sense of wonder with every comic panel. Moomin is a little hippo-like creature with a silly group of friends and family that constantly get into accidental trouble and end up teaching others a lesson: be more moomin-minded. Live carefree, enjoy life, fun is more important than work. Every character is very detailed and pursues their own passions endlessly, while fretting over how that passion might causes problems in their environment.

I recommend this book! I've read Book One and Two and can't wait until the Third Edition.

[Nicky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again, like the other Moomin comic strip collections, cute and funny, and often quite knowing and wry. I enjoy them a lot, and I really don't think they're just for children, whatever my local library does with 'em...

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moomin Vol. 2 is a very delightful read, the characters are warm, beautifully but simply designed and adorable beyond word and the sense of humor is natural and light-heartened, strongly recommend to everyone.

[j · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5 stars 🌠
Would have rated it 5 stars if just for the last 3 stories, but moomins winter follies was - still good - but not as good as the other comics :)

I've become obsessed with collecting moomin themed stuff so I had too start reading the comics - I think I read some of the books when I was very young but can't remember, however reading these comics felt very nostalgic and I feel like moomin comics can be read no matter your age 😌

I love the way the pages are set out with like an object related to that scene splitting the scenes up and the intricacy in each scene is lovely 😌 It has sweet, troublesome and funny scenes and I loved reading these comics, I plan to collect more of them :)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️/🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Sorry for mention of death of a relative in next bit but I just wanted to mention in memory of my grandpa who recently passed that my grandpa's friend who's obsessed with moomins had gifted him this book in 1999 had said it could be given to me as I'm obsessed with moomins myself. Reading 📚 the comics made me feel more connected to him by reading something he had once read, and I feel like books are kind of timeless like that and can connect people throughout the world and throughout time. I hope he's at peace somewhere out there, maybe hanging out with tove jansson❤️❤️

[Mathilde Paulsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mummimamma som først blir lei seg fordi alle har glemt henne, for så å bli sint fordi de oppfører seg tullete og drar på stranden for å plukke skjell alene is a whole mood. ELSKER mummi!

[pridna katoliška punca]

i love little my. evil little monster ❤️

[léonna marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

perfect way to read the heat wave away...... but missing one star cuz no snufkin

[Thea Knightley · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun times so whimsical so happy so cute i like these people

[avery · Rating 5 out of 5]

2025 is the year of moomin!

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have bottomless affection for Jansson's Moomin creations. The novels were my favorite reads as a young reader, and Finn Family Moomintroll was read to me multiple times (at my insistence) as a bedtime story. I'm not sure why, but despite Moomintroll having become essentially the Mickey Mouse of Finland and probably that country's most instantly recognizable symbol, I still feel like the Moomin world is this sort of awesome secret place just for me. That probably speaks to the genius of its creator, her ability to create a private, intimate, immersive experience for every reader. I'm sure it also helps that in my mind Moomin = fond childhood memories.

It's interesting to me that my two favorite comic strip dailies (this and Pogo by Walt Kelly) were close contemporaries, both reaching their heights in the mid-1950s. There are rather a lot of similarities between the two strips, actually: both revolve around lovingly rendered fantastic/animal characters who live bucolic livestyles in their respective reclusive rural habitats and who on occasion suffer intrusions from the outside world or go on minor adventures. Pogo ultimately became much more involved in topical political statements than Moomin (though I've only read the Moomin strips up through 1954 at this point so that could change I suppose), but Moomin features its moments of social commentary as well (see Moomin Begins a New Life in this volume). I wonder if the pastoral settings evoked in both these works reflects a general frustration with post-World War II modernity? Not sure, and a sample size of n=2 is pretty underrepresentative of the landscape of the comic dailies of the time. I'd be very interested in receiving referrals to works in a similar vein from a concurrent time as these two, though, so if you have them pass them along!

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's hard to describe what I think of Moomin. Moomin and his family live in a kind of fantasy creature alterworld, where they are most of the time at peace with nature and without need. Their small dramas are generally caused by their falling into absurd misunderstandings of the world, and their relationships are innocent and loving. But there is also a very crazy anarchistic streak to characters like Little My who enter that world and cause chaos that the other characters try to cope with in a sort of bumbling, childlike way. The Moomins also live like unreconstructed hippies, doing whatever they please in the world and interacting with it spontaneously. There's an emphasis on nature and the seasons and food and relationships and all the fundamentals, and Moominland delivers a very appealing worldview, philosophically. It's sort of nuts and 'out there', but also very pure. But I think also I just really love her drawings. Each new character is drawn as something formed completely differently from all the others, a shape and a face you wouldn't expect. She has lots of super simple, clear and direct lines, very expressive and sort of warm, somehow. Her drawing style is recognisably of its time and place (Scandinavian) and maybe this adds to its charm for me as well. Those little crinkled foreheads do a lot of work in the faces. Even the way she draws objects and houses and things is super super sweet.
But I'm making it sound too nice: it's a really wild world, this one, actually.

[Juushika · Rating 3 out of 5]

At this point it seems fair to say that I just don't enjoy the comics as much as the books. My initial impressions remain: the art is charming, emotive, with phenomenal background detail. But the characters are slighter, more frivolous. They're inconsistent not just with the tone/character development in the books, but even between individual comic arcs. But this collection has Little My, particularly the version of her character that I'd heard of via the fandom and expected to love, and indeed I do; she's mean but not cruel, incisive, selfish, and so much fun--a sharp counterpoint to the usual Moomin-mindness.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second Printing = February 2008

I'm EAGER to read the first book whenever it drops to my price point- I was lucky to get this one in very poor condition.

but whenever that caused me cast and plot unaware I didn't quite care because it's so charming and whimsically extraordinare!

This is something to relish.
It's Re-Licious Relishiousness- in superlative.

[Max · Rating 5 out of 5]

So lovely and magical.. I love the Moominworld. Tove Jansson is one of my all time favourite authors with her whimsical stories!

[Jorge Rosas · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second book of the comic collection, some lovely stories and we finally met Little My. From topic like a maid, family values and how easy is to influence people being a Prophet.

[Elsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Viimeisessä tarinassa korostuvat erot piirrossarjan ja alkuperäisten sarjakuvien välillä. Eihän lastenanimaatioversiossa vietetty puoliksikaan näin paheellista elämää.