Editing Tove Jansson (section)

===Wartime satire in ''Garm'' magazine===

[[File:Tove Jansson cover of Garm magazine October 1944.jpg|thumb|upright|Cover of ''[[Garm (magazine)|Garm]]'' magazine, October 1944, lampooning [[Adolf Hitler]] as "self-important and comic"<ref name="McDonagh">{{cite journal |last1=McDonagh |first1=Melanie |date=18 November 2017 |title=A chance to see the Moomins' creator for the genius she really was: Tove Janssons<!--sic--> reviewed |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/a-chance-to-see-the-moomins-creator-for-the-genius-she-really-was-tove-janssons-reviewed/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106082641/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/a-chance-to-see-the-moomins-creator-for-the-genius-she-really-was-tove-janssons-reviewed/ |archive-date=6 January 2018 |url-status=dead |journal=The Spectator |issue=November 2017}}</ref>]]

Tove Jansson worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language<!--Ahola/Biografiakeskus says "During the war it strove to act as a mouthpiece for antifascist opinion"--> [[satirical magazine]] ''[[Garm (magazine)|Garm]]'' from 1929 to 1953, when the magazine ceased production.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ant O'Neill |title=Moominvalley Fossils: Translating the Early Comics of Tove Jansson |journal=Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature |date=2017 |volume=55 |issue=2 |page=52 |doi=10.1353/bkb.2017.0023 |s2cid=151535137 |issn=0006-7377 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/656106/pdf}}</ref> One of her [[political cartoon]]s achieved a brief international fame: she drew [[Adolf Hitler]] as a crying baby in diapers, surrounded by [[Neville Chamberlain]] and other great European leaders, who tried to calm the baby down by giving it slices of cake – [[Anschluss|Austria]], [[General Government|Poland]], [[Czechoslovakia]], etc. In the [[Second World War]], during which [[Military history of Finland during World War II|Finland fought against the Soviet Union]], part of the time cooperating with Nazi Germany,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/05/finland-in-world-war-ii/100519/ |title=Finland in World War II |last1=Taylor |first1=Alan |date=23 May 2013 |magazine=The Atlantic |access-date=5 January 2018}}</ref> her cover illustrations for ''Garm'' lampooned both Hitler and [[Joseph Stalin]]: in one, Stalin draws his sword from his impressively long [[scabbard]], only to find it absurdly short; in another, multiple Hitlers ransack a house, carrying away food and artworks. In ''[[The Spectator]]''{{'}}s view, Jansson made both "Hitler and Stalin appear as preposterous little figures, self-important and comic".<ref name="McDonagh"/>