Moomin Official

Moomin Official is the official YouTube channel of book series written by .
== Content ==
The channel's first video was an interview with the voice actors of Moomins and the Comet Chase, specically (who voiced Moominpappa), (who voiced Sniff) and (who voiced Snorkmaiden). 
The channel's second video was an interview of Sophia Jansson on the BBC, Tove Jansson's last living relative (Tove was a lesbian and died leaving no children; Sophia was the daughter of her brother Lars).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tqT9dzU9U As of current, Sophia serves as the artistic director of Moomin Characters Oy Ltd. Growing up, she helped her father and aunt manage The Moomins as an intellectual property, and Tove based the character of The Granddaughter from The Summer Book on Sophia.https://books.google.com/books?id=iF1gAgAAQBAJ&q=Sommarboken+Boel+Westin&pg=PT324
The channel would then upload videos of The Moomins merchandise, and upload clips/episodes from various adaptations of the books. The channel uploads videos in English, Finnish and Swedish, and also frequently uploads behind the scenes content. A number of videos are centered around Tove herself.
== Tove Jansson ==
Tove Marika Jansson (born: 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001 [aged 86]), is the author of The Moomins. Born to Swedish-speaking Finnish parents, she was the oldest sister to two brothers, Lars and Per. 
Lars grew up to be a cartoonist like his sister; Per grew up to be a photographer who also served in the Finnish army against Nazi forces.https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-hands-that-made-the-moominshttps://www.moomin.com/en/blog/per-olov-jansson-feels-that-he-never-managed-to-take-a-picture-of-his-sister-fully-relaxed-even-if-he-took-most-of-the-photos-of-tove/ Their parents were artists themselves - her father, Viktor, was a sculptor and her mother, Signe, was a graphics artist.https://web.archive.org/web/20070629223013/http://www.hameenlinna.fi/taidemuseo/index.phphttp://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=8118 Her uncle is Einar Hammarsten, a Swedish physician who discovered that RNA is present in animal organs (specifically, their pancreas).https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=12553
Throughout her life, Tove displayed a number of her artworks amongt Europe, from painting murals in children's hospitals to creating political cartoons mocking dictators and .https://web.archive.org/web/20080916102623/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tjansson.htmhttps://www.openculture.com/2020/11/before-creating-the-moomins-tove-jansson-drew-satirical-art-mocking-hitler-stalin.htmlhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/a-chance-to-see-the-moomins-creator-for-the-genius-she-really-was-tove-janssons-reviewed/https://www.moomin.com/en/tove-jansson/
While Tove dated men in the past (notably anti-Nazi journalist ), she had also been romantically involved with and before dying of cancer, entered a relationship with .https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/15/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-reviewhttps://www.tor.com/2010/05/02/tove-jaanson-out-of-the-closet/http://muistot.hs.fi/muistokirjoitus/865/vivica-bandlerhttps://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1178937640https://billiongraves.com/grave/Tove-Jansson/17061598 
Tove likely kept her sexuality a secret due to the fact that same-sex marriage was not legalized in Finland until 2017; however her and Pietila were said to be the first same-sex couple that were guests at the President's Independence Day Reception in 1979.https://twitter.com/moominofficial/status/1070644195944222720?lang=en
The last book Tove wrote was . It is considered to be starkly different from the other Moomin books, due to the melancholic tone and passages about dealing with grief. Shortly before it was published, Tove's mother passed away, and Tove stopped writing Moomin books in favour of writing books aimed at older audiences.http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/1395
==Further reading==
* - Tove Jansson on Wikipedia
* - Lars Jansson on Wikipedia
* - Sophia Jansson on Wikipedia
* - The Moomins on Wikipedia
== Trivia ==
* Though The Moomins are often mistaken for hippos, dogs or bears by viewers, the official site states that they are trolls.
*Several characters in The Moomins are based on people Tove Jansson knew in real life. 
**According to Jansson, Snufkin was based on Atos Wirtanen.https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/who-inspired-tove-when-creating-snufkin/
**The character of Tooticky seems to be based on Pietila, as both have an androgynous appearance, wear red-striped shirts and carry briefcases.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tove-jansson-moomins-cartoon_n_59b94115e4b086432b0361c3
**According to her friend Boel Westin, Thingumy and Bob are based on Tove and Vivica.https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26529309
**The idea of "moomins" came from when Tove's uncle Einar told her that a beast known as "The Moomintroll" lived in their kitchen closets. Their design was from a crude drawing Tove made when she was fifteen years old, dubbed "Snorks". She also cited the works of as an inspiration.http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=1395https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/the-story-of-how-moomintroll-was-born/ 
*Disney once offered to buy The Moomins, but Jansson rejected them.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/15/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-review
*According to Wikipedia, the Moomins anime was streamed on Cartoon Network. However Moominvalley (2019) is available on Netflix.
*Wikipedia records at least 22 adaptations of The Moomins. Most are Finnish and Swedish productions, but Japanese, Dutch, Polish and French adaptations have also been noted.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins#TVseriesandfilms
*Jansson featured The Moomins (or characters that heavily resembled them) in a few of her anti-Hitler posters in political newspaper Garm.https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/tove-janssons-work-at-satire-magazine-garm/
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