Bienvenidos al fascinante mundo imaginario del Valle de los Mumin, donde es imposible no enamorarse de inmediato de sus habitantes: tiernos soñadores, maquinadores irascibles, y creativos y curiosos, siempre en busca de amor, fama y fortuna.
Tal vez sea por las pocas aptitudes de Mumintroll para la construcción, la desesperación de la Mimbla para llamar la atención de don Fresco, la rigidez de la señora Filifionka a la hora de cuidad de la casa y de sus hijos o la llegada de profetas al valle proclamando excéntricas formas de vivir, pero las encantadoras y dispares historias de Tove Jansson harán las delicias tanto de los más devotos como de los iniciados.
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ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Welcome to the fascinating imaginary world of Moominvalley, where it’s impossible not to immediately fall in love with its inhabitants: tender dreamers, irascible schemers, and creative and curious souls, always in search of love, fame, and fortune.
In this second volume of Tove Jansson’s humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, childrearing, and self-reinvention.
The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble’s mother arrives on the Moomin family’s doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.
Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated Moomin chapter books. The Drawn & Quarterly reprint series collects, for the first time in North America, Jansson’s internationally syndicated Moomin comic strip that debuted in the London Evening News in 1954.
