Tom of Finland - Kake 26: Oversexed Office

Tom of Finland - Kake 26: Oversexed Office - Los Angeles CA - Tom of Finland Inc. - [ca.1988] - [Reprint] - [32] pp - Stapled wrappers - 21,5 x 27,5 cm.

Condition: Good - with some wear.

Homoerotic comic strip in the KAKE series by Finnish artist Tom of Finland (= Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). Illustrated in black and white. Reprint with retail price of $11.00. (The first edition appeared in 1986 for $10.00).

In this last issue (which also contains hetero sex scenes) Kake works as a limousine driver - complete with uniform - and "does" an entire office, including the director. Cf. Hanson p. 641; 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.