Tove top in white

In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, one of the most famous cartoonists in the world was a lesbian artist who lived on a remote island off the coast of Finland. Tove Jansson is without a doubt one of the best Finnish artists of all time and also the most widely read Finnish author abroad. Her lifework is of immeasurable value because of the success she made as a writer, artist and cartoonist. In the beginning of 1940 Tove worked for the satirical magazine Garm as the head designer, where what she enjoyed most was drawing political cartoons. Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.