Check out these beautiful covers from Juan Carlos Ruiz Burgos.
I really hope these are going to have their own variant month at DC. Just stunning stuff.
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/09/dc-favorites-make-headlines-in-saturday-evening-post-tributes/
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Violence aside, I wouldn't agree with these being cheesecake. The images aren't over sexualised in my opinion. Especially for this day and age. I really like the nostalgia for the age they evoke. I'm a big fan of this 30's/40's style Rockwell-esque art. I think they're really cool covers. Think they'd sell well too. They just look real cool :D
I think the Clark Kent one fits perfectly while the Poison Ivy piece, for example, doesn't fit the SEP.
It's just sexualized enough to be fun without being creepy.
That's what makes it cheesecake, as opposed to porn.
Isn't cheesecake an idealised image of a woman? If so,I don't see any of these images as that and therefore not sexual. Just because a woman is naked doesn't necassarilly make it sexual or even attractive. To me cheesecake is a matter of opinion. But that's just mine. We're all welcome to our own.
Question... Do you like the images? Or is it just the fact they are under the SEP banner that you take exception to?
The Wonder Woman, Zatanna and especially the Superman one would make fine SEP covers.
The composition and the characters in the Ivy one is very Rockwellian, but clearly the (rather innocent) nudity doesn't belong on the Post.
The Joker and Harley one is the biggest stretch, mainly for the dynamism of the image.
I'm quibbling* about the definition of cheesecake as "oversexualized".
Though it's a pretty subtle distinction, I wouldn't say "idealized" so much as "romanticized", though sex, or the implied promise of sex is certainly a part of what I consider cheesecake.
*Me? Quibbling? :D
If the images had just been presented as is, then no problem; its just another riff on the variant cover/nostalgia/sexy rockabilly girl thing that's been popular lately. My quibble was with the lazy insertion of the Saturday Evening Post masthead on a couple of images. It's kinda like mixing up Bettie Page and Ozzie and Harriet; although both things existed at the same time, they didn't intersect.