Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson, a Finnish painter, wrote and illustrated the Moomin books from 1945, with ink drawings full of dark forests, storms and odd, lonely creatures that give the gentle stories an undercurrent of unease. Her Moomin comic strip for London's Evening News from 1954, later drawn with her brother Lars, spread the characters worldwide. Her picture books such as Who Will Comfort Toffle? show her colour work.