Lars Jansson (cartoonist)
Lars Fredrik Jansson (8 October 1926, Helsinki – 31 July 2000, Helsinki) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author and cartoonist.[1]
Early life
A native of Helsinki, Jansson was the son of a sculptor, Viktor Bernhard Jansson, and a Swedish-born illustrator, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson. His siblings included an older sister, writer Tove Jansson, and an older brother, photographer Per Olov Jansson.[2][3] He graduated from Tölö Svenska Samskola in 1944. From 1961 to 1968, Jansson was married to Anita Lesch. He made a study trip to Spain where he lived from 1962 to 1966.[4]
Work
In 1957, he began working with his sister on the writing and drawing of the Moomin comic strip, which he produced single-handedly from 1959 to 1975.[5] Between 1990 and 1992, Jansson worked with Dennis Livson to develop the concept of the Moomin animated series in Japan. His daughter, Sophia, worked together with him in 1993 to help manage the production of a new series of Moomin strips which Sophia now manages solely.[2][3]
References
- ^ Tolvanen, Juhani (27 June 2001). "Lars Jansson". Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b Ånger, Maria (1 December 2000). "När Mumin erövrade världen" [When Moomin conquered the world]. Ny Tid (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ a b Suortti-Vuorio, Auli. "Tove Jansson". Design Forum Finland website. designforum.fi. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Jansson, Lars Fredrik". Writers in Finland 1917–1944 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1981. p. 146. ISBN 951-717-238-9.
- ^ "Mumintrollen" [Moomintrolls] (in Swedish). Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
(från 1959 tecknad av Lars Jansson).
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