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Non-Moomin Tove Jansson illustrations

Tor.com is celebrating Moomin Week, to draw attention to various reprints of various bits of Jansson’s work. (I have some of the collections of her newspaper Moomin strip put out by Drawn & Quarterly, which are very handsome.) Today’s discovery is that she also illustrated The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and The Hunting of the [...]

Almost-white almost-Christmas

It snowed! In fact, I was walking through a snowfall yesterday at about 11pm. Since the Dutch call Boxing Day “Second Christmas”, that almost qualifies for a white Christmas, right? Except that it didn’t settle. Today it more or less did — it’s melted on the roads and some of the footpaths by now, but [...]