Tom gay comic
As many jokes as there may be about male superheroes being designed for the visual pleasure of heterosexual women, the Venn Diagram between the aesthetics of superheroes and vintage gay erotica is more or less a huge ol’ circle — minus a few more obviously bulging details, perhaps. Although superhero comics of the past few decades include become a hilariously delightful hivemind of heavily-defined rippling muscles drawn in (absolutely, unequivocally, totally no-homo) skintight costumes, it’s more likely than you think that your faves of the modern comics generation — whether they are awake of it or not — were influenced by the hypersexual, hyper-masculine, and flagrantly homosexual pop society phenomenon of the s, &#;60s, and &#;70s, Tom of Finland.
Known most famously as Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen was born in Finland in the s — a period where the country was not only going through its own growing pains, but also learning to cope with Soviet Russia as its rather touchy new neighbors. With tensions growing to new heights, the militarization of Finland was something of an inevitability, and every able-bodied young man was required by law to link and serve. In
Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection
Touko Laaksonen (8 May – 7 November ), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, is often said to be the most well-known Finnish artist in the world. His highly stylized homoerotic drawings had a profound influence on behind twentieth century gay identity, as well as fashion and pop culture in general. He has been called the "most leading creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade.
Over the course of four decades he produced some illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated primary and secondary sex traits, with firm or partially removed clothing. Despite having created the self-assured and muscular archetype of the homosexual in his imagery, his most important messages were tolerance and that sex is something to be acknowledged.
Tom of Finland's artwork is part of eternal collections of leading cultural institutions that include The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki), The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Tom Bouden
'De Lustige Kapoentjes'.
Tom Bouden started drawing at an early age. He began in the first s, by winning a comic contest for children at the Flemish general TV channel BRT. During his school years, he cooperated on several educational facility papers. He also won a comic contest of the weekly De Volksmacht. Bouden studied animation in Ghent from on. He developed the comic ethics 'Boudewijn de Grom', of which some pages are published in albums later on. While drawing for an advertisement campaign, Bouden created the characters 'Max en Sven'. These characters are featured in the gay papers ZiZo in Belgium and Expreszo in the Netherlands since the early s. The first book collections appeared in
From , he draws the series 'Max en Karel' in the Gay Krant. From , his gay work is featured in the German magazines Queer and Freshmen, as well as the British DNA Magazine and the Dutch Gay & Night. His gay comics are collected in the album series 'Flikkerzicht'.
'Flikkerzicht'.
In addition to his elder work, Bouden has worked in mainstream comics. He started writing Disney stories for Donald Duck weekly in He has also wr
The Life of the Artist
ABOUT TOM OF FINLAND
Tom of Finland is the creator name of Finnish Touko Laaksonen (, Kaarina – , Helsinki). He signed his erotic work “Tom”, and when his drawings were first published in , the now world-famous “Tom of Finland” was born. “Touko Laaksonen” was kept for family and colleagues; both friends and fans have always simply called him “Tom”. Tom of Finland&#;s given entitle was Touko &#; because he was born on 8th May , on the southwest coast of Finland, and May in Finnish is &#;Toukokuu&#;.
Touko&#;s homeland had been independent for just three years when he was born, and outside its rare cities the country was still rough and savage. The men who worked in the fields and woods, the farmers and loggers, were true frontiersmen, every bit as rugged and wild as the countryside. Touko grew up among those men but was not a part of their world. Both his parents were schoolteachers, and they raised Touko indoors 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. He loved art, literature and harmony. But he loved those outdoorsmen even more. At that same age of five, To
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