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allthingsfinnish:

Garm magazine cover by Tove Jansson

I’m pretty sure this illustration refers to the Lapland War, when the Germans devastated large areas of northern Finland using scorched earth tactics.  Jansson depicts the raiding, looting and burning of Lappi with details such as the carrying off of hams, puukkos and rye bread, a statue of poor Aino, and even Hitler admiring himself in what I believe is a Saami hat that he has “acquired”, which is what I think besorgen means in German. I’m not sure what Jansson’s intent is with the sign on the wagon, which I believe is mixing the Swedish/Finnish ‘company’ abbreviations with the German ‘besorgen’, if it alludes to possibly ‘profit’. If anyone knows, let me know!

“The politically liberal satirical magazine Garm of Swedish-speaking intellectual circles began to publish Tove’s drawings in 1929, and this collaboration continued until 1953. Tove drew several hundred pictures and approximately one hundred covers for the magazine. Garm attacked dictatorship and tyranny of all descriptions, and Tove´s biting drawings of Hitler and Stalin alike were sometimes censored.

Moomintroll’s predecessor initially appeared in illustrations in Garm in the early 1940s. At first, the figure was Tove’s signature in the lower corner of the drawing, an angry creature with a narrow snout, small mouth, horn-shaped ears and a long tail.  It is said that Tove Jansson had already begun to write this story in 1939 when the Finnish-Soviet Winter War broke out, in order to escape, even for a moment, the gloominess of the war.”

source: Design Forum Finland

(Source: tea-and-murders, via fuckyeahmoomintroll)

terrot:

Godzilla facepalm, so epic it hurts.

dronemasters:

Tove Jansson’s cover for the Finnish Edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. 

(via fuckyeahmoomintroll)

(Source: de-maupin, via rare-basement)

kochalka:

Casting.

(via superf-ckers)

cowsgomoose:

Demon cat and Moth Demon Queen. I don’t even know, purely aesthetics. Refining that art style I was working with for my robot girls.

“You come beating like moth’s wings, spastic and violently. Whipping me into a storm, shaking me down to the core.”

sorry about the re-post, I wanted to fix some things.

cowsgomoose:

Tails if he were drawn like one of those Spongebob closeups. lol.

criterioncollection:

An actual comment card from a test screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME.

sketchamagowza:

MICKEY MOUSE COMIX