Born on in Kaarina, Finland, the artist died in Helskinki, Finland on November 7, 1991. In 2013, the exhibition “Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles offered a comprehensive survey of his work, and Finish national stamps featuring Laaksonen's drawings were released in 2014. The critical reception of his work has shifted in tandem with changing political landscapes-prior to the 1970s, Laaksonen's art was either censored or rejected by mainstream culture, whereas after the end of the 20th century, his illustrations have been championed by gay activists and fine arts institutions alike. A naked man is, of course, beautiful, but dress him in black leather or a uniform-ah, then is more than beautiful, he is sexy!” Both the content and militaristic style of his work was informed by the artist’s time spent serving in the Finnish armed forces, and he originally began creating his erotic drawings for his own entertainment. “To me, a fully dressed man is more erotic than a naked one. “I almost never draw a completely naked man,” he once explained. An influential aesthetic force in late 20th-century gay culture, his illustrations were rendered in grayscale graphite and often featured uniformed men with exaggerated musculature and genitalia either performing or implying sexual activities. Hey guys i just went to ops account and their pinned post was about how they dont consider werewolves part of the monster community cuz theyre not undead.Tom of Finland, a moniker of Touko Laaksonen, was a Finnish illustrator best known for his distinctively stylized homoerotic drawings. god you guys are stupid why dont you all step into a sunbeam i dont care if you are a 1000 years old vampire, if your significant other is 100 years older than you they have more life experience than you. Next thing you know op is gonna be saying that a hundred year age gap between fully fledged vampires is problematic dont tell me you completely just forgot about the existence of vampire slayers I think op is forgetting that humans can be just as harmful to vampires as they can be to humans. do some vampires abuse their powers over humans? of course! but you cant assume that every single human vampire relationship (or sire and sired relationship for that matter) is some unhealthy power imbalance, especially when you dont even know them!!! humans are capable of making decisions for themselves. I keep seeing people saying this shit and honestly i think it stems from the infantalization of humans. I hate to tell you this but you’re in a toxic relationship and i sincerely hope youre able to get out. me included! this may shock you but we started dating when i was human and she was a vamp! i know at least 7 vampires who are in happy healthy relationships with the vampire who sired them. Op what the fuck is your problem? more maggots in your brain than usual? go out into the real underworld and touch some graveyard dirt. its almost as bad as vampire human relationships (and if you support that i hope you get a splinter in the heart) i am so serious, i dont care what your justification is, that is an unforgivable power imbalance. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this newsletter or submit an expression of interest on this page.ĭni if you support relationships between vampires and the vampire they sired. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. * The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It’s not final, nor will it ever be. The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition! If there is language specific to comics, it’s either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don’t have a robust system of language.

However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. I love reading, making and thinking comics. I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn’t comics? This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn’t have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Happy Halloween! I’m really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet. The Creator’s Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!Īn online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.

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