Lars Jansson (cartoonist) Sophia, worked together with him in 1993 to help manage the production of a new series of Moomin strips which Sophia now manages solely. Lars Jansson (cartoonist) Lars Fredrik Jansson (8 October 1926 Helsinki – 31 July 2000 Helsinki) was a Finnish author and cartoonist. A native of Helsinki, Jansson was the son of a sculptor, Viktor Jansson, and a Swedish-born illustrator, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson. His siblings included an older sister, writer Tove Jansson, and an older brother, photographer Per Olov Jansson. In 1958, his sister assigned to him the writing of the "Moomin" comic strip, which he drew from 1961
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