Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 02

Part of the Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip series

Moomins face winter carnivals, love rivalries, and a prophet's unsettling truths. Can they find happiness?

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Join Moomin, a teenage troll, as he navigates a winter carnival, love triangles, and a prophet's unsettling message. With insomnia disrupting their hibernation, the Moomins encounter Mr. Brisk's winter sports, while Mymble and Snorkmaiden vie for a new suitor. Moominmamma hires the secretive Misabel, and Mymble’s mother arrives with seventeen children. As a prophet challenges their happiness, Moomin struggles with newfound freedom. Will the Moomins find peace amidst the chaos?

From the publisher

In the second volume of Tove Jansson’s humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, 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.

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