Trained in art, advertising and piano in Helsinki during and after WWII, Tom of Finland was first introduced in the United States in 1957 on the cover of Mizer's publication Physique Pictorial. Over the next 30 years Tom's oversized, pug-nosed motorcyclist and lumberjacks would roughhouse their way through gay imagery, influencing everyone from artists like Etienne to photographers Jim French (Rip Colt) and Robert Mapplethorpe.