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. About the Series: Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!
Mustaches and muscles: Back to the days when men were men and sex was carefree In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom's Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky-a common male name in Finland-followed 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 Appleseedtraveling 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 Kake's 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. About the Series: Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia. Bookworm's delight - never bore, always excite! Text in English, French, and German
Touko Laaksonen, who used the artist name Tom of Finland, was raised by his parents, who were schoolteachers, in an atmosphere of art, literature and music. Obviously talented, by the time he was five he was playing the piano and drawing comic strips. In 1939, Touko went to art school in Helsinki to study advertising. It was not until Stalin invaded Finland and Tom was drafted into a lieutenant's uniform that he came out as a homosexual. After the war, Touko went back to studying art and also took piano classes at the famed Sibelius Institute. By day, he did freelance artwork - advertising, window displays, fashion design. In the evenings, he played the piano at parties and cafes, becoming a popular member of Helsinki's post-war bohemian set. He traveled frequently, becoming very familiar with the gay cruising areas found in every major city. Still, in 1953, when he met Veli, the man with whom he would live for the next 28 years, it was on a street corner a few blocks from home.
At the end of 1956, at the urging of a friend, Touko sent his artwork to a popular American muscle magazine, signing them 'Tom of Finland'. The editor loved them. The demand for what Tom always called his 'dirty drawings' grew quickly, but neither erotic art nor homosexual art paid very well in the 1950s. It was not until 1973 that he was able to quit his daytime job. Now that he could devote his full-time efforts to erotic drawing, Tom combined photorealistic attention to detail with his wild sexual fantasies to produce a body of work that, for sheer homoerotism, will probably never be surpassed.
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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. Touko Laaksonen, the boy who would become Tom of Finland (1920-1991), began drawing cartoons at.
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Out of all of Tom's creations, 'Kake' must have been his favorite, because he drew at least 26 complete illustrated stories of his sexploits, amounting to over 500 drawings. With his classic masculine good-looks, easy going 'anytime, anywhere' attitude and tight-fitting black leather, Kake has become an all-time favorite of male erotica. More than ever, Kake personifies a much-needed icon of masculine, healthy, happy, non-stereotypical homoeroticism. During the seventies, after exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany, and Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, Tom turned into an international gay celebrity. After emphysema was diagnosed in 1988, Tom was forced to stop traveling but continued to draw. When the disease and the medication made his hand tremble too much for him to do the finely detailed work for which he had become famous, Tom switched back to a childhood favorite - pastels - producing a richly colored series of pastel nudes until he died from an emphysema-induced stroke in November of 1991.
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