Bookshelf
study guides books reading lists e-books
home sign in my orders my e-books my trolley my account contact
| can't find it |

| browse books |
books
 

books

| book details |

The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers

Illustrated by Tom of Finland, Edited by Dian Hanson

| on special |

normal price: R 555.95

Price: R 499.95

| book description |

Tom’s taste for police officers and felons—and for sexual tension between the two—developed late in his career. “I’ve never been to prison,” he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, “but I hear it’s a closed world where there are different roles and people behave different from when they walk free. It fascinates me. It is another subject I come back to again and again.” By which he meant fantasized about again and again, since only those subjects that aroused him sexually made it into his art. The uniforms of the California Highway Patrol motorcyclists were his favorite: tan and tight, with high boots and soft black leather gauntlet gloves. He created his own uniform variants as well, a cross between military and civilian police gear, and invented suitably butch criminals for his cops to apprehend, though once apprehended the power struggle could go either way. Tom was determined to show top and bottom as equally masculine roles, and his cops were as likely to end up happily speared by criminal cock as delivering corrective coitus. Though criticized by some for what appeared to be a glorification of power, Tom was always quick to remind that the world he created was a fantasy world, where anything was possible, and everything was consensual—even in prison. The Little Book of Tom: Cops & Robbers explores Tom’s fascination with criminal justice through a mixture of multi-panel comics and single-panel drawings and paintings, all in a compact and affordable 192 pages. Historic film stills and posters, personal photos of Tom, sketches, and Tom’s own reference photos make this far more than another Tom’s Comics re-tread.

| product details |



Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 6 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Taschen GmbH
Published date | 15 Dec 2022
Language | English
Format | Hardback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 195 x 140 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 409g
ISBN | 978-3-8365-8867-6
Readership Age |
BISAC |

| other options |



Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 591.95
 Price | R 532.95 | on special |

| back |
| your trolley |
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |

| specials |

The Ballerina and the Bull: Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance

Johanna Isaacson
Paperback / softback
288 pages
was: R 332.95
now: R 299.95
This title will take longer to obtain, and should be delivered in 6-8 weeks
Our moment has seen the resurgence of an anarchist sensibility, from the uprisings in Seattle in 1999 to the Occupy movement of 2011.

The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
Paperback / softback
320 pages
was: R 666.95
now: R 599.95
Forthcoming

Fifteen Dogs

André Alexis
Paperback / softback
176 pages
was: R 315.95
now: R 283.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
A pack of dogs are granted the power of human thought - but what will it do to them? A surprising and insightful look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.
 
Copyright 2025 |  terms and conditions