$27.52
- Hardback without Jacket
- 112 pages
- 106 Illustrations
- 193 × 257 × 15 mm
- ISBN 9780500094334
- Oct 2022
Tove Jansson drew her first Moomin on an outhouse wall, before committing Moominvalley to the page in the 1940s. This book offers a fresh, insightful appreciation of her life and art, from imaginative child to art student, painter, author, cartoonist and illustrator, bohemian lesbian and Finnish cultural icon. Jansson’s flourishing Moomin books are examined in detail, as are her interpretations of such classics as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Hunting of the Snark, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
About the Author:
Paul Gravett is a writer, critic, curator, publisher and broadcaster who has worked in the comics industry since 1981. He is author of many books, including Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life, Comics Art and Mangasia, the latter published by Thames & Hudson in 2017. He is also the author of Posy Simmonds in the Illustrators series. Gravett is co-director of Comica, the London International Comics Festival.
