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...hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists for a two-day expulsion ritual. The Caliph's House ends with the residence beautifully renovated and the transplanted Londoners better for the experience. So much better that Shah is working on a sequel. No word on the jinns' next move. - D.M. 6. Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip...
Finland's Jansson started writing books about the hippo-like Moomins in 1946, but their first appearance in English was as a comic strip that ran in the London Evening News between 1953 and 1958. It was syndicated then, but has never been published since - until now. In the comic strip, the Moomin family strays far from the tranquil charms of Moominvalley: on the French Riviera, Moominpappa gets drunk and Moomin's sweetheart, the Snork Maiden, is seduced by a toothy film star. But then the hattifatteners appear - mute, sock-like animals that grow from seeds and chase after electric...
When Coach CEO Lew Frankfurt hired Krakoff six years ago, he gave him total creative control to oversee everything from store design and merchandising to, well, glove design. Krakoff set about hiring big-gun photographers such as Mario Testino, Mikael Jansson and Peter Lindbergh to shoot the ad campaigns, and then he redesigned all the Coach stores. "The first two years were kind of rocky," he admits. "I had no idea what I was getting into when I started." Now Krakoff has hit his stride, specifically with a series of best-selling handbags, including the Hampton tote and, more recently...
...Bradley Jansson, 43, of Cambridge, was placed under arrest for trespassing in Harkness Commons on Everett Street...
DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, Finnish artist and author whose hippo-like trolls, the Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...