Monday is male supermodel Tony Ward's 56th b'day!

State of Ward (Images by Rip Searby)

The new issue of the new Physique Pictorial (spring '19) is here — and it's jam-packed!

For one thing it's got vintage Tony Ward shots. You know, King of the Booty Shots?

Also, as usual, I did all the interviews. Snippet of my chat with Paul Sixta:

I started out on analogue 35mm like most people my age. I’ve always loved the organic feel of film versus digital. Colors like the ones in Bob Mizer’s work definitely influenced my aesthetics.

 Check this out here — it's a great value, and is dripping with edgy, hot, beautiful photography.

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(Image by Rick Castro for Another Man)

Rick Castro, the photographer and the guy who directed Tony Ward in Hustler White (1996), shoots Ward, 55, and his daughters for Another Man.

In the interview, Ward describes being sexually fluid (without naming it as such), why his acting career never took off and how being Madonna's boy toy affected his image:

Wanted men

Continuing on my gonzo-list kick, I enlisted the aid of my good buddy Jeff, a model-industry insider and a man of great taste, for help in compiling this tally of the most incredible-looking male models from throughout history. (The cavemen didn't have much call for male models, so I think we went as far back as the 1970s.)

Some of these guys are icons, some supermodels, some mere posers with faces only a mother superior couldn't looove. The common denominator is that they're stunning and that the history of modeling—runway, print, fitness or even neo-Web entrepreneurial—would not be the same without them. Purists be damned!

Here they are, in alphabetical order by first name (I know, but it saves so much time), with  my Top 20 indicated at the end...