Star Jaws

Star Jaws

By Will Eisner, with Keith Diaczun & Barry Caldwell (Scholastic Book Services)
ISBN: 1-5638-9789-X / 89-70123-8

Here’s an odd little item that will probably never be reprinted, although it’s definitely worth a look if you should ever stumble across a copy.

In the 1970s Will Eisner was working as a cartoonist and commercial designer, but took time out to oversee this collection of children’s gags and jokes that cashed in on the twin movie crazes of Jaws (the shark not the Bond villain played by Richard Kiel) and the science fiction boom generated by the first Star Wars film.

Executed in tone and wash, and if I’m completely honest, seeming more the work of assistants Keith Diaczun and Barry Caldwell than the great man himself, there are still enough rib-ticklers, gems and crackers on view warm up the deepest depths, be they space, the oceans or the tired jaded, human heart.

© 1978, 2004 Will Eisner. All Rights Reserved.