The Little Book of Tom. Blue Collar

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<p>As a boy, Tom¿s first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in the endless forests; threshing oats, rye, and barley on the farms. Tom, a more sensitive boy, admired these rough men and their distinctive clothing, designed for protection and utility. He later said, ¿When I was young, leather was worn by people who worked outside because it was warm. <strong>All the men who wore leather, they were the type of men which I adored</strong>.¿<br/><br/>When he began to draw he celebrated these early idols, improving their wardrobes with <strong>tight jeans, faded T-shirts, and thigh-high beak-toed Lappish boots</strong>. It was a young logger in this gear who appeared on the spring 1957 cover of <em>Physique Pictorial</em>, introducing Tom to the world. In the decades to follow Tom added<strong> truckers, repairmen, construction workers, circus roustabouts, and