TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — The Moomins, Finland’s most lovable literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this ...

Fans flocked to Tampere in southern Finland to celebrate the country’s most lovable literary cartoon family, created by ...

Eight decades after their debut, the Moomins remain Finland’s most treasured literary export. Fans flocked to the official ...

Tove Jansson created the Moomins as an escape from the darkness of World War II. 80 years later, do we need them more than ...

Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll – live in Moominvalley, where they welcome all friends, visitors and vagrants for adventures and sweet treats.

Speaking during an interview with The Game Business, Remedy Creative Director Sam Lake has revealed one franchise he’d like to be involved with outside of his company: The Moomins. For those out ...

Certain cartoon characters from Europe such as Asterix, Smurfs and Tin Tin have become international children’s legends and ...

Tove Jansson's The Moomins, have a been a book, a comic strip, a cartoon, a stop action animation, a 3D film, an opera and a theme park. Their next step? Of course, there's an app for that!

The Moomins and Jansson were also celebrated in a major exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London earlier this year. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents.

Moomins feature in one of my favorite series of books, created in the ’40s by a genius called Tove Jansson, and they are funny. They’re trippy, and dreamy, sometimes melancholy and often wise.

The Moomins, a pleasant family of hippo-like creatures, were created decades ago by Finnish writer-artist Tove Jansson and her brother, Lars, in a series of books they later adapted to a comic strip.

Finland's most lovable literary cartoon family, The Moomins, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year. The white, ...