I acquired a taste for Moomins rather late in life due to a chance encounter with Mika Pohjola who was performing Moominröster.

Collected the newspaper strips and some novels.

It was all very incongruous and absurd… but then so are salt licorice, pickled herring, and many other Scandinavian things that aren’t to everyone’s taste.

I found the Tolkien Calendar edition which used Jansson’s art. I find it adorable. No one else does.