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In 1952, after Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British publisher asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins.

Jansson had already drawn a long Moomin comic adventure, Mumintrollet och jordens undergång (" Moomintrolls and the End of the World "), based loosely on Comet in Moominland, for the Swedish-language newspaper Ny Tid, and she accepted the offer.

The comic strip Moomintroll, started in 1954 in the Evening News, a newspaper for the London area and London commuters ( no longer in business ).

Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson.

She eventually gave the strip up because the daily work of a comic artist did not leave her time to write books and paint, but Lars took over the strip and continued it until 1975.