Page 1 of Tove Jansson’s “Moomin Falls in Love”

In Tove Jansson’s “Moomin Falls in Love” there are various types of framing going on throughout the book. The most notable ones are the implied frames. One notable way of making frames creative would be to use what is going on in the actual story itself to create a frame. Such as frames 5-7 have the rain drops created an implied frame. It fits in with what is going on with the story currently and it gives a unique and creative aspect to those frames. As you can see Jansson’s frames are all touching each other except for when the page ends and a new strip has to be made. This allows for various different methods for creating implied lines. Another example would be when the characters are outside, Jansson removes the bottom line from the frames to imply that they are on open ground, however to the audience it still feels like a frame. The scaling of the frames in this comic isn’t that complicated. Jansson increases the width of frames as she needs to, however she never increasese the height of the frame which calls for the need to be more creative with the width of the frames. Also she would put her name on the bottom right corner of every strip to create an implied line. One thing I have to say is how the frames and the implied frames all fit the style of the comic. I feel like if there were frames within the frames or different thickness of frames it would ruin the whole style of the comic as all the characters have the same thickness of the frames.