[Revolting cat!]

It's so remarkable, I find it hard to believe that the photographer and the editor didn't know what they were doing. Look at it: small head, large hands (to grab things with,) large torso, all due to the perspective and the wide (or normal) angle lens used, which is never a lens employed for portraits except by amateurs, because it distorts, the grin of a halfwit, the phallic necktie. And note the shape of the dark things seemingly hanging down from between his legs!

[Revolting cat!]

Oh, and the halo or the aura behind him, like that in the velvet paintings of Christ, Virgin Mary or some saint.

I suspect the cover might have been purposely subversive (Esquire has done such things!)