Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children's book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.

Lars Jansson (8 September 1926 - 31 July 2000) was a Finnish cartoonist and author. He was a published author at sixteen before he taught himself to be a cartoonist in order to replace his sister Tove on the Moomin comic strip. Lars Jansson drew the strip for fourteen years.

"The Moomin universe is what you'd get if you took Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz, and mixed them together with Finland's cartoonishly long summer days and winter nights" --Myla Goldberg, NPR

"The experience of loneliness, unrequited love, insecurity, fear, separation, jealousy, and grief--Jansson was seen by her readers as someone who understood their inner lives." --Frances Wilson, New York Review of Books