National Nordic Museum presents “Moomins’ Sea Adventures & Tove and the Sea” from March to September!
Saturday, March 28, 2026 to Sunday, September 6, 2026
10:00am
Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children’s book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.
Tove Jansson and Lee Lai featured in Queer as Comics at Quentin Blake Centre!
Friday, May 1, 2026
12:00am
PAST EVENT
Tove Jansson and the Moomins exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library
Gallery Show
Friday, June 27, 2025 to Tuesday, September 30, 2025
07:00pm
PAST EVENT
Special Guided Tour of “Tove Jansson & The Moomins” at the Brooklyn Public Library on September 16
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
07:00pm
PAST EVENT
Tracy Hurren and fellow experts discuss Tove Jansson & The Responsibility of Children’s Literature at Brooklyn Public Library on June 27th
Friday, June 27, 2025
06:30pm
PAST EVENT
Tove Jansson Exhibition in London, UK
Gallery Show
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 to Sunday, January 28, 2018
10:00am
PAST EVENT
The Adventures of Moominland Exhibition
Gallery Show
Friday, December 16, 2016 to Sunday, April 23, 2017
10:00am
PAST EVENT
Moomin at Festival du nouveau cinema
Appearance
Sunday, October 11, 2015 to Sunday, October 18, 2015
01:00pm
June 5, 2021
Tove Jansson profile in The Guardian
In 1964, when she was in her 50s, the Moomin creator Tove Jansson settled on her dream island. Klovharun in the Finnish...
June 5, 2021
Tove biopic reccomended on IBT
“Tove” is another theater release, which revolves around a character named Tove Jansson, who begins a new li...
June 4, 2021
Director of ‘Tove’ interviewed in Moviefone
Welcome to Female Filmmakers in Focus, featuring recommendations for films directed by women to seek out each week. Thi...
June 1, 2021
Tove biopic reveals “an unconventional character, whose imaginative art would go on to influence millions of children and adults.”
Art, love, jealousy and freedom are themes at the heart of Tove, the biopic of Swedish-Finnish Moomins creator Tove Jans...
December 9, 2020
CBR Includes 5 D+Q in Holiday Shopping Guide
Like Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly tends to specialize in more sophisticated comics for people who are not tradit...
September 24, 2020
London Review of Books Profiles Tove Jansson
Towards the end of her life, Tove Jansson wrote a novel about two women in love. In Fair Play, Mari and Jonna, two a...
May 26, 2020
The Beat’s Moomin Study Guide
Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Vol. 1 Written and illustrated by Tove Jansson
Published by Drawn & Qu...
March 30, 2020
The New Yorker profiles Tove Jansson
In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, one of the most famous cartoonists in the world was a lesbian artist who lived on a...
For Your Consideration: D&Q’s Year in Review 2025
2025 was a big year for D&Q–not that it’s over yet, but you can hardly take us to task for reminding…