Product Description

The Comic Collection is the only compilation of Tom of Finland's popular panel stories. Each of five 192-page volumes features eight or more complete stories, including all twenty-seven episodes of Kake, Tom's infamous ultimate leatherman. The stories are arranged chronologically in books sized to fit perfectly in one hand, with the whole set appropriately housed in a black ?leather? display box. For boys who like boys who like art, this attractive package is not to be missed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #578256 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Format: Box set
• Original language: German, French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 960 pages

About the Author
Dian Hanson is a twenty-five-year veteran of men's magazine publishing. She began her career at Puritan magazine in 1976 and went on to edit a variety of titles, including Partner, Oui, Hooker, Outlaw Biker, and Juggs magazines. In 1987 she took over the '60s title Leg Show and transformed it into the world's best-selling fetish publication. She is also the author of Taschen's Terryworld, Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection, and History of Men's Magazines six-volume set.

Customer Reviews

What's next...Tom POSTAGE STAMPS!
What the heck is wrong with the people at TASCHEN and the Tom of Finland Foundation anyway!?!? It's praiseworthy indeed to perserve and protect erotic artwork, but why allow it to be REDUCED to the size of a postage stamp?

The coolest feature about the ART OF PLEASURE (the ORIGINAL ONE, that is) was the fact that FINALLY someone had published a book of Tom's illustrations that reproduced them LARGE enough to appreciate the DETAIL and thus the GENIUS of this man's art. So, last year they shrink down the size of the re-released ART OF PLEASURE, and THIS YEAR they publish this ridiculously TINY comic(al) collection!

This is a crying SHAME! ALL these cool illustrations, many not seen in 20-30 years, have been reduced to POSTCARD PROPORTIONS...what a sad insult this is to the memory of the greatest erotic artist of all time!

Recently, some of this artwork became available in single volumes, in the traditional 8.5 x 11 magazine format...so why in the heck did anyone feel the need to collect and then SHRINK Tom of Finland's wonderful artwork down to this limp little compilation?

This is the 21st Century - there is NO LONGER any need to make these books so TINY that they can be easily hidden in the corner of someone's CLOSET!

If you can't do it right, STOP DOING IT!!

GORGEOUS REPRODUCTIONS--BUT THEY'RE CROPPED!
I can't agree with most of the niggling in other reviews about this set. The images are beautifully reproduced in crystalline detail, many of them in rich duo-tones, and the binding is a beautiful black leatherette with rich-looking gold-foil lettering and line images. The small size is no drawback, either-it gives a jewel-like aura to the whole set, and while some previous collections (such as one I first purchased in the 1980s) used an 8-1/2 by 11 format, they also reproduced four panels to a page, so that the actual pictures were no larger (and considerably less well reproduced).

HOWEVER, in comparing this set with previous ones, I noticed that where the original drawings had no distinct boundaries, the pages here are circumscribed by a hairline box, which results in the images being "cropped"-that is, a small amount of the drawing on each side is cut off. In most cases the overall effect is not too damaging, but there are images of group scenes in which what had been full figures are reduced to merely a hand or a nose. Considering that this is presumably meant to be a "definitive" publication of all of Tom's cartoons, I'm amazed that the Tom of Finland Foundation would permit this sort of trimming.

That being said, I must add that overall I think they did a beautiful job, and the price is very modest for a collection of this quality.

right on!
The other review says it all. Just want to add that I notice Amazon doesn't bother to put the books' dimensions into the Product Details. Hmmmm, I wonder why . . .