Tom of Finland - Kake 20: Pleasure Park

Tom of Finland - Kake 20: Pleasure Park - Los Angeles CA - Tom of Finland Inc. - [1984] - [Reprint] - [32] pp - Stapled wrappers - 21,5 x 27,5 cm.

Condition: Good - with some wear.

Homo-erotic comic strip in the KAKE series by Finnish artist Tom of Finland (= Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). Illustrated in black and white. Reprint from the 80s (the first edition appeared in 1977). "For Mature Adults Only!"

In this issue Kake participates in group sex in a city park. In the front 'Tom's Catalog' (with 'The Loggers', 'Circus' and 'Slave Market') and in the back 'From Tom's Archive'. Cf. Hanson p. 477; Bertolotti p. 175; Van Os p. 176. Original vintage editions, including early reprints, of this series are rare.

¶ Between 1968 and 1986, Tom published 26 episodes of Kake's adventures, comics starring hypermasculine men and wonderful leather gays. By the late 1960s, Tom's "dirty drawings" had become the standard for gay art, and Tom's men a model for the new gay masculinity.