![]() Tove and Lars Jansson received the Finnish Comic Strip Association's " Puupää-hattu" award in 1980. ![]() At its peak, Moomin appeared in over 40 countries and about 120 papers, with over 20 million readers daily, making it the most successful Finnish comic strip ever published. The series originally appeared in newspapers from 1954 to 1975. The main series of Moomin comic strips were made directly for the British market: they were spread by the British Associated Newspapers comic strip syndicate and the original publisher was the Evening News newspaper. The series has been reprinted in book form under the name Jorden går under ( The World is Ending) by the newspaper. ![]() The series was published with two new strips weekly, and was mainly an adaptation of Comet in Moominland. It was written between 19, at the request of the editor, a friend of Jansson's, Atos Wirtanen. The first comic strip, entitled Mumintrollet och jordens undergång ( Moomintroll and The End of The World) was a short-lived project for the children's section of the Finland-Swedish leftist newspaper Ny Tid. Moomin ( Swedish: Mumin / Mumintrollen Finnish: Muumipeikko) is a comic strip created by Tove Jansson, and followed up by Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters. ![]() Comic strip created by Finnish author Tove Jansson and cartoonist Lars Jansson Moomin comic strips ![]()
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