Modified Covers

As a hobby, some artists enjoy modifying vintage magazine covers so that their original topics are transformed into transgender themes and shemale models replace the female faces and figures that originally graced the periodicals' covers. In the process, the titles of the magazines are sometimes changed, too. As a bonus, the modified magazines sometimes include stories that reflect the models' transformations.

Boy Becomes Girl shows a blonde in a yellow dress looking at herself in her bedroom mirror. On a bookshelf behind her, her photograph--that of the smiling boy she used to be--is displayed. The caption to the artwork explains the cause of the boy-girl's transformation: "A Sister's Dare Turns Him Into The Prom Princess!" The cover, visitors to the website that features the modified covers learn, "was inspired by the fine graphic artistry of Jenny North."

Undercover Crossdressers is a series in which "the boys infiltrate a wedding party to rescue a friend in danger" ("Bullets and Bouquets"); a "vanity spell" may "spell disaster for the team" ("Vanity, Thy Names is Steve/Stacy"); and "young Simon/Celeste goes on his first solo mission as a bride to bring down a crime syndicate" ("I Was A Teenage Mob Bride").

Fashion Reporter is also a series. In one story, our intrepid journalist, outfitted in a dress and high heels, is shown leaping from a burning building in which, through an open window, a police officer is seen grappling with a crook. The featured story, the redundant caption informs the reader, is about a reporter who is "crossdressed and trapped in a burning building." The journalist is more concerned with being outed than in surviving the leap, thinking, as she jumps, "I have to risk jumping! God, I hope nobody recognizes me!"

The second issue divulges the journalist's secret identity: "A closet transvestite, Mark Preston is the. . . Fashion Reporter." This issue's cover story is "Murder on the Runway," the plot of which has Mark dress "as a model to solve a mystery." (Wait! Is this Fashion Reporter or Undercover Crossdressers?)