The Moomins are the creation of the Finnish-Swedish artist and writer Tove Jansson, who introduced the round, hippopotamus-like family of trolls in a series of books and, later, a long-running comic strip. This volume belongs to Drawn & Quarterly's celebrated republication of Jansson's comic strips, which ran in newspapers beginning in the 1950s and reached readers around the world. Set in the idyllic, faintly melancholic Moominvalley, the stories follow Moomintroll and his family—the practical Moominmamma, the adventurous Moominpappa—along with an eccentric cast of friends and hangers-on such as the wandering, harmonica-playing Snufkin and the anxious, collecting Hemulen. Jansson's strips are gentle comedies of character and mood rather than plot-driven adventures. Her Moomins take up get-rich-quick schemes, receive troublesome guests, chase romance, and periodically flee civilization for the freedom of the sea or the forest, all rendered in Jansson's spare, elegant line and dry wit. Beneath the whimsy runs a distinctly grown-up sensibility: a preoccupation with solitude and companionship, freedom and domesticity, the pull between adventure and the comforts of home. The result is work that has enchanted children while rewarding adult readers with its emotional subtlety and its sly observations about bohemian life, family, and the longing to escape one's obligations. Winner of the Harvey Award and nominated for multiple Eisners, Jansson's Moomin comics are considered classics of the form, and this collection extends a body of work that has kept its charm and its quiet wisdom across generations of readers.