The Complete Tom of Finland

Never one to hesitate to take on enormous publishing tasks, Taschen recently announced the (eventual) publication of The Complete Tom of Finland, a mammoth undertaking which seeks to collect as much of the work produced by the legendary artist over his fifty year career as possible and thus "become the most ambitious volume of explicit art ever published": "'The Complete Tom' will be sensual as well as sexy, an elegant feast for the eyes and fingertips created from state of the art digital scans on high-quality paper, with essays by writers diverse as John Waters, Camille Paglia, Clive Barker and Vivienne Westwood. And of course, it must be as complete as possible, from Tom's first explorative childhood drawings to his final sketch of a uniformed officer, drawn four months before his death in 1991." No date on when the first volume will be available, but it's on our wish list already.

· "The Complete Tom of Finland" (project info @ taschen.com - via patrickdevon.typepad.com)
· See also: "Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection" (taschen.com)

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