Kerry Degman skater montage

We're not sure what the process is for a model to be deemed "super-" but we suspect that being chosen as cover-guy for not one, but two different gay mags in different languages gets a male model at least part way to super-model status.

If that's the case, then phenomenally-hot model Kerry Degman is, indeed, now a super-model since he's on the covers of the May, 2008 issues of both Out in the US and Tetu in France. And both magazines choose to feature him with sporty clothing or (in the case of the near-nudes in Tetu) a bit of sports equipment.

It's the shots from photographer Randall Mesdon used in Tetu that we highlight in this montage. We're fascinated by the retro-football outfit from Out, but it's the skater motif from Tetu that seems to us to take Kerry back to his roots.

The double covers and the outstanding shots of Degman have the blogs abuzz. We took samples of Mesdon's great shots for Tutu from Beauty and the Bum.

Andy at Towleroad explains the concept behind the Out cover and adds another shot of all the models they're featuring this month in their virtual walk-off of the models.

Towelroad's readers -- irritated as they usually are -- pile on with their disgust at seeing Degman on the cover of Out. Seems he isn't out, so they figure he doesn't belong there. We, for our part, don't care. We're delighted to see him there and anywhere else.

More Qgallery montages of Kerry Degman