Moomin Book Two The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancolic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child-rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports living Mr Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moomin Mama meets her new neighbour, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her 17 new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was the legendary Finnish children’s book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and television.

“A lost treasure now rediscovered—one of the sweetest, strangest comic strips ever drawn or written. A Surrealist masterpiece. Honest.â€� â€”Neil Gaiman â€œ[Jansson's] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive . . . Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, a liberating force.â€� —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Moomin is gorgeous, and is flat out the best Moomin book I've ever seen. Tove Jansson was a natural cartoonist. These strips are clever, gentle, witty, and completely engrossing.â€� â€”Jeff Smith, cartoonist of Bone