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Byhowever, he was earning enough money to quit his day job at the advertising agency and devote himself fully to drawing. Equally, Tom of Finland continues to inspire creatives and fashion designers. At the same time, Tom of Finland is still more of a cult figure than a household name like Andy Warhol who owned several of his pieces because his art remains incredibly provocative, especially to the straight male gaze.

Many of his illustrations show men with heavily muscled torsos and surreally large genitalia engaging gleefully in sex acts. And if you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. Check out amazing ballbustingcartoon artwork on DeviantArt. More like this: - Why do gay men love Judy Garland?

But nevertheless, his more explicit work retains an unwavering capacity to shock. His posthumous success has undoubtedly been bolstered by the fact that intowards the end of his life, Laaksonen founded a non-profit foundation with his friend Durk Dehner to preserve and promote his catalogue of more than 3, illustrations.

By Nick Levine 24th March But years on from his birth, how do they stand up now, asks Nick Levine. However, if these elements of his work are inspiringly subversive, the way Tom of Finland plays with imagery from the Third Reich is undoubtedly much more morally murky — even though Laaksonen art dismissed suggestions he might be a Nazi sympathiser.

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Laaksonen was more artist than businessman, and for many years he was poorly paid for his illustrations by both the niche titles who published them and fans who commissioned bespoke pieces. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation at House of Illustration is currently closed but will reopen as soon as it is safe to do so www.

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The whole Nazi philosophy, the racism and all that, is hateful to me, but of course I drew them anyway — they had the sexiest uniforms! Inthe Finnish postal service even celebrated his impact with a set of commemorative postage stamps. His influential drawings of men in leather and biker outfits helped to inspire the popular Gay Clone look that Freddie Mercury and Frankie Goes to Hollywood adopted and brought into the mainstream, but also made his work appear exclusionary to other queer factions.

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Laaksonen first drew a man of colour inand as his career progressed, he included more interracial couples in his drawings — something which certainly made his art feel even more taboo at the time. The bound muscle bull has now had the supreme misfortune of falling into the hands of none other than Kylo Ren.

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His popularity continued to grow during the last two decades of his life, and in he and Dehner formed the Tom of Finland Company to copyright earlier work which had been widely pirated. Want to discover art related to ballbustingcartoon?

If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter. Some early Tom of Finland illustrations depicting soldiers in Nazi uniforms are also inherently problematic.