Tom of Finland Volume II - Bikers (25)

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Tom of Finland Volume II - Bikers (25)
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Erotica

Tom's Brando-inspired bikers and leathermen
 

In 1953 The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando as Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club, was released worldwide. In 1954 Tom of Finland, previously known for his military and blue-collar subjects, drew his first civilian motorcyclist dressed in black leather. Coincidence? Hardly. The Wild One, originally marketed to a female audience with a poster featuring a close-up of Brando’s face sans leather cap, hair tousled, cheeks and pout tinted pink with the tagline “That 'Streetcar’ Man has a new Desire!”, resonated far more with gay audiences, who took Brando’s character as a template for the first leatherman. After seeing The Wild One Tom never drew men in brown leather again; black leather now dominated his fantasies, and his art.

Tom adopted Brando’s leather Perfecto jacket, white t-shirt, Levi’s, and high boots as his signature look. It was this same look that Tom selected for Kake, his confident, ever-horny hero of 26 panel stories. Kake became Tom’s fearless, outgoing alter ego, and bikers supplanted military men as his favorite subject.

In Tom of Finland Volume II--Bikers we explore Tom’s fascination with bikers through a mixture of multi-panel comics and single panel drawings and paintings, starting in the 1940s, before The Wild One fixed his taste on black leather, through the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Historic film stills and posters, personal photos of Tom, sketches, and Tom’s own reference photos make this far more than another Tom’s Comics retread.

• Rank: #510928 in Books
• Brand: Taschen
• Published on: 2012-06-14
• Original language: English, German, French
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages