Love at first sight does exist. I know this (sorry, Officially Awesome Husband) because of the Moomin comic strip.
I first discovered Tove Jansson’s Moomins when I saw a handful of strips reprinted in a 2001 issue of The Comics Journal. It was just a taste that left me longing for more of the unfailingly polite, imaginative, and gently melancholy Moomins. A few years later, a friend pointed out that there are Moomin children’s books! Made me feel kind of dim for not looking before, but what a joy those were. Perhaps more on them later…
But now, the wonderful little comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly is putting out beautiful editions of the whole run of the Moomin comic strip.
Dream. Come. True.
The first story from Volume One is up on the Drawn & Quarterly web site. It’s far from the best of the series. The art gets better — or at least, the characters look more like themselves — and many of the later stories just work better. (I particularly like “Moomin Mamma’s Maid” in Volume Two.) But, hey, you can read this one for free before you order the books.
Click here to read (just keep clicking “next” at the bottom).
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