Sniff (Moomin character) the character only occasionally after the first books. In the TV series Sniff has been added to many of Jansson's stories where he did not originally feature. Sniff (Moomin character) Sniff () is a character in the Moomin stories created by Tove Jansson. His debut is in the first Moomin-book "The Moomins and the Great Flood". In addition to books he is also a prominent character in the Moomin comics and animations. The parents of Sniff are The Muddler ("Rådd-djuret") and Fuzzy ("Sås-djuret"), childhood friends of Moominpappa. Sniff is considered as a sort of an adopted child of the Moomin
Tove Jansson her father, Viktor Jansson, was a sculptor, and her mother, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, was a Swedish-born graphic designer and illustrator. Tove's siblings also became artists: Per Olov Jansson became a photographer and Lars Jansson an author and cartoonist. Whilst their home was in Helsinki, the family spent many of their summers in a rented cottage on an island near Borgå, 50 km east of Helsinki. Jansson studied at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in Stockholm in 1930–33, the Graphic School of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1933–1937, and finally at L'École d'Adrien Holy and L'École des Beaux-Arts