Tove's siblings also became artists: Per Olov Jansson became a photographer and Lars Jansson an author and cartoonist.

Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books: The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My ( 1952 ), Who will Comfort Toffle?

In addition to providing the illustrations for her own Moomin books, Jansson also illustrated Swedish translations of classics such as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( some used later in Finnish translations as well ).

Jansson also produced illustrations during this period for the Christmas magazines Julen and Lucifer ( just as her mother had earlier ) as well as several smaller productions.

Most of the Moomin books by Finnish author Tove Jansson were novels, but several Moomin picture books were also published between 1952 and 1980, like Who Will Comfort Toffle?

The publisher also has an imprint for children called Enfant, with which they have published the Moomin works of Tove Jansson and Pippi Longstocking comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman.

Many 19th century history paintings of classical characters such as Hyacinth, Ganymede and Narcissus can also be interpreted as homoerotic ; the work of late 19th century artists ( such as Thomas Eakins, Eugène Jansson, Henry Scott Tuke, Aubrey Beardsley and Magnus Enckell ); through to the modern work of fine artists such as Paul Cadmus and Gilbert & George.

He spent time in Paris but later moved to Italy, where he married his wife Edla Gustafva Jansson, also a painter, in November 1852.

The basic concept was created by Torbjörn Jansson, which was then substantially re-worked and developed by the co-head-writers Kristina Mansfeld and Per Carlsson into the series it is today.

* In Tampere in Finland, the Moomin Museum displays the Moomin house, a dollhouse created around the Moomin characters of Tove Jansson.

However, the music was created by both of them, with Jansson co-writing all of the tracks and handling most of the arrangement and production duties in the studio.

This iconic image, Touched by His Noodly Appendage was originally created in August 2005 by the Swedish designer Niklas Jansson as a parody of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.

Jansson continued painting and writing for the rest of her life, although her contributions to the Moomin series became rare after 1970.

The book was not a success ( and was the last Moomin book to be translated into English ), but the next two installments in the Moomin series, Comet in Moominland ( 1946 ) and Finn Family Moomintroll ( 1948 ), brought Jansson some fame.

The series was published in book form in Swedish, and books 1 to 6 have been published in English, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.

Several stage productions have been made from Jansson's Moomin series, including a number that Jansson herself was involved in.

In the early 1980s, Murdoch provided the English narration for the Polish animated version of The Moomins, from the classic series of books by Tove Jansson.

In Finn Family Moomintroll, the third book of the Moomin series of children's books by Tove Jansson, The Hobgoblin is a strange magical creature ; even his hat, when found by other creatures, can work strange sorts of magic all by itself.

Little My ( Swedish: Lilla My-literally: " little mu ") is a character in the Moomin series of books by Tove Jansson.

Between 1990 and 1992, Jansson worked with Dennis Livson to direct the Moomin animated series in Japan.

The series is sometimes called the " Mercator / Hondius / Jansson " series because of Jansson's later contributions.

In 2006, Drawn and Quarterly began publishing the Moomin comic strips of Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson, in book format, in the series Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.

The literal name of the band, ' The mummies ' troll ', is a pun on Moomin Troll, the series of Finnish children's books by Tove Jansson.

Moominmamma ( Muminmamman ) is a character in the Moomin series of books by Finnish author Tove Jansson.

Moominpappa ( Muminpappan, i. e. " The Moomin Dad ")-is a character in the Moomin series of books by Finnish author Tove Jansson.

He is best known for his soundtrack to the Finnish-Japanese anime series Moomin, which is based on the Moomin books by illustrator and writer Tove Jansson.

Other artists who have found inspiration in Tolkien's works include Catherine Karina Chmiel, Inger Edelfeldt, Anke Eißmann, Roger Garland, Michael Hague, Tove Jansson ( of Moomin fame, illustrator of Swedish and Finnish translations of The Hobbit ), Paul Raymond Gregory, Tim Kirk, Angus McBride, Kay Miner, Billy Mosig, Colleen Doran, Jenny Dolfen and Matěj Čadil.

Her family, part of the Swedish-speaking ( Swedish: finlandssvensk ) minority of Finland, was an artistic one: her father Viktor Jansson was a sculptor and her mother Signe Hammarsten-Jansson was a graphic designer and illustrator.

Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945, during World War II.

Jansson lived with her female partner, the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä.

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

Jansson displayed a number of artworks in exhibitions during the 1930s and early 1940s, and her first solo exhibition was held in 1943.

Despite generally positive reviews, criticism induced Jansson to refine her style such that in her 1955 solo exhibition her style had become less overloaded in terms of detail and content.

Jansson said that she had designed the Moomins in her youth: after she lost a philosophical quarrel about Immanuel Kant with one of her brothers, she drew " the ugliest creature imaginable " on the wall of their WC and wrote under it " Kant ".

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

In 1966 Tove Jansson won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her contributions to children's literature.

Lorene Yarnell moved to Sandefjord, Norway in 1998 with her fourth husband Bjørn Jansson.

The original idea was to make it round, like Jansson always made it in her illustrations for the Moomin stories, but since it was going to be displayed in a corner at the Bratislava biennale of illustrations in 1979, they decided to make it square instead.

Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, which was then a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

In 1952, Jansson designed stage settings and dresses for Pessi and Illusia, a ballet by Ahti Sonninen ( Radio tekee murron ) which was performed at the Finnish National Opera.

By 1998, Fuemana and Jansson had had a falling out over royalties, which ended up in court.