Tove Jansson and she accepted the offer. The comic strip "Moomintroll", started in 1954 in the London "Evening News". 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. The series was published in book form in Swedish; books 1 to 6 have been published in English, "Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic
Tove Jansson Life of Tove Jansson". From October 2017 to January 2018, the Dulwich Picture Gallery held an exhibition of Jansson's paintings, illustrations, and cartoons. This was the first major retrospective exhibition of her work in the United Kingdom. With a new animated series, "Moominvalley" to be broadcast in 2019, Rhianna Pratchett wrote an article about the impact Tove Jansson had had on her father Sir Terry Pratchett; he called Jansson one of the greatest children's writers there has ever been and credited her writing as one of the reasons he became an author. Tove Jansson Tove Marika Jansson () was a