Mug Green (1990–1993)

This mug is also known as the Green comic Strip. It is the very first Moomin mug in the Teema series. It was manufactured from 1990 to 1993, and the original artwork is from Tove Jansson's comic #08 Moomin Begins A New Life. Tove Slotte, the designer of the official Moomin products, only removed the speech bubbles from the images, using the original artwork as it is. In the comic strip style imagery Moominpappa, known for his adventurous nature, climbs up a tree to have a picnic. Colouring experiments were made on the first three mugs. They tried burnt pigments with three different tones, of which only one was chosen for production. Mug Green, Mug Blue and Mug Rose were all launched at the same time in 1990. To this day Mug Green and Mug Rose are the only mugs picturing a full comic strip. "I feel the light yellow and the blue mugs are more balanced than the comic strip mugs. I believe the consumers agreed with me, as the production of the comic strip mugs was discontinued after just a couple of years, and similar designs haven't been made since", says Tove Slotte.