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Tom of Finland. The Complete Kake Comics

English, French, German

By (author): Dian Hanson

Illustrated by: Tom of Finland

In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Toms Man. He tried out a blond named Vickya common male name in Finlandfollowed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Then in 1968 Tom settled on Kake, a dark-haired, mustached leatherman who often wore a tight white T-shirt bearing the motto Fucker. Kake lived up to this moniker, a sort of post-Stonewall, hyper-masculine Johnny Appleseed traveling the world on his motorcycle to spread the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex. Tom lived out many of his most personal fantasies through Kake, and Kakes international fans made him the template for what came to be known as the gay clone look of the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1986, Tom published 26 episodes of Kake adventures, most as 20-page booklets.

Tom of Finland The Complete Kake Comics collects all of these stories in one volume. Return with Kake to the days when men were men, sex was carefree, and everyone wore a big thick mustache.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1022g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 195mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: Taschen GmbH
  • Publication City/Country: Germany
  • Language: English, French, German
  • ISBN13: 9783836550512

About Dian Hanson

Dian Hanson is a senior editor and writer for TASCHEN with over 50 books to her credit. In addition to ARNOLD her recent works include The Art of Pin-up Masterpieces of Fantasy Art and The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. Read here how it all began. Touko Laaksonen the boy who would become Tom of Finland (1920-1991) began drawing cartoons at age five. His favorite subjects were the rough manly men of his native Finland. He found success in the Finnish advertising industry but secretly continued creating his increasingly erotic drawings of hyper-masculine men. In 1957 he submitted some drawings to the American magazine Physique Pictorial and the Tom of Finland legend was born. By the late 60s Toms dirty drawings became the standard for gay art and Toms Men a template for a new gay masculinity. 

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