Don't have time to read through the whole article. But just wanted to point out that there are also Moomin cartoons which have really politically uncorrect stories: like Moomins travelling to spain, trying to buy opium but eating some weird drugs instead and then staring for sea for a week and missing their fligth back.
Moomins at Torrelorca: https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumit.html
Relevant pages:
https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/18.jpg
https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/19.jpg
https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/20.jpg
https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/21.jpg
"Waiter, four marijuanas" - they end up scoring LBJ pills instead as marijuana was so last season.
Note that the comic is by Lars Jansson, Tove's brother.
To be fair, that's an uncannily accurate prediction of many visitors' experiences when visiting Ibiza
For Spaniards, Ibiza was and it's seen as a place for electronic music, posh-background hippies and psychodelics.
Tove Jansson also drew political satire cartoons during WW2. Before Mumintrollen.
https://tovejansson.com/sv/story/illustrator-barnboksforfatt...
“How can I be so thirsty when I've been drinking all night?” – Moomintroll (in the Cartoon)