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A Bloomin’ Moomin & Snowman Christmas To You!
Posted: December 10, 2012
This Boxing Day, December 26th, at 9pm on BBC4, you can enjoy a new one-hour television documentary entitled Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson. The Radio Times bills it as: “A profile of the author behind the well-loved Moomins series about a family of trolls facing a range of adventures. The programme traces how Jansson lived a bohemian existence as an artist in Helsinki, before becoming a recluse on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland, and reveals how her creative genius extended beyond her popular characters to satire, fine art and adult fiction.” As well as a contribution from me, others taking part include my fine Finnish friend and Moomin expert Juhani Tolvanen whose thoroughly researched study into the birth and success of the Tove Jansson’s newspaper strip for the London Evening News, entitled Moomin Every Day, is coming out early next year in English from Drawn & Quarterly. Meanwhile, why not re-visit the Tove Jansson exhibition I curated for the Belgian Comics Centre in Brussels in 2010.
And the following Sunday, December 30th, to tie in with The Snowman and The Snowdog, Channel 4’s new sequel to the animated version of The Snowman, there’s a ‘making of’ documentary called How the Snowman Came Back to Life on Channel 4 at 6.05pm, following the sequel’s repeat showing at 5.35pm. As well as an interview with Raymond Briggs, his many admirers including Posy Simmonds, Quentin Blake and Shaun Tan will be joining in and you might spot me among them too. Happy holiday viewing!
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