queerasfact:Queer artists 06/30 - Tove JanssonFinnish author and artist Tove Jansson is best known f
queerasfact:Queer artists 06/30 - Tove JanssonFinnish author and artist Tove Jansson is best known for creating Moomins (as pictured top left). Although much of her work was whimsical and fantastical, Tove’s Moomins first appeared in anti-fascist cartoons in the late 1930s when she worked for the magazine Garm, persisting despite censorship and Finland’s alliance with Nazi Germany. Tove also based many characters in her Moomin stories on real people. Thingumy and Bob (pictured below), for example, were inspired by Tove herself, and her partner Vivica Bandler. Tove and Vivica had a short, but very intense relationship - Thingumy and Bob are similarly inseparable, always holding hands and speaking in their own secret language. learn more with queer as fact: a queer history podcast[Image descriptions: Moomin, a white, hippo-like creature, talking to Stinky, a black, furry creature, in a field of flowers at night. Moomin says, “Hullo Stinky, don’t disturb me, I’m collecting herbs under the new moon.” Stinky responds, “Aren’t you ever going to fit yourself into a modern community!”; self-portrait of Tove Jansson, a blonde woman in a yellow jacket and red shirt; Thingumy and Bob, two cartoon figures with long noses and spiky hair, both wearing long dresses and black heeled boots, one is wearing a pointed hat, they are looking at a round object on the ground] -- source link
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