Sophia Jansson

Sophia Jansson
Born	1962 Finland
Occupation	Artistic director, Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd
Parent(s)	Lars Jansson
Relatives	Tove Jansson (paternal aunt) Viktor Jansson (paternal grandfather) Signe Hammarsten-Jansson (paternal grandmother) Per Olov Jansson (paternal uncle)
Website	www.moomin.fi

Sophia Jansson (born 1962) is the daughter of cartoonist Lars Jansson and the niece of the famous Finnish writer and painter Tove Jansson. Jansson has worked as a Spanish language teacher,creative/artistic director, chairman, and majority shareholder of Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd, and provided direct oversight together with her father for the 1990 Moomin animated series.

Growing up in the center of the collaboration of efforts between her aunt and father, Jansson gained an intimate window into the creative processes behind the Moomin comic strip series. As Tove's efforts became directed more at writing and the strip's production became more the effort of her father, Jansson became an active help in management of the visual aspects of Moomin as an intellectual property.

In 1979, Lars Jansson founded the limited liability company, Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd, now headed by Christer Timgren. According to a 2004 article in the Finnish business magazine Talouselämä, Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd is Finland's most cost-effective business, with some 80 Moomin licences in Finland and almost 300 abroad. It has been listed as among the top Creative Export Companies of Finland in 2007.

Since 1993, Jansson, together with her father, has managed the production of a new series of Moomin strips which Jansson now manages solely.

In 2006 Jansson took the role of director in the release of the CD, Muumipeikko ja Pyrstötähti.

In 2008, the rediscovery by Jansson of the manuscript for "The King in Moominland" (a TV script written by Tove and Lars in the late 60s) made news as the resulting musical performed at the Åbo Svenska Teater represented the first performance of this "lost episode" in decades.

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