{"id":1521,"date":"2007-12-01T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2007-12-01T18:45:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T18:45:25","slug":"star-jaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/01\/star-jaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Jaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/star-jaws.jpg\" alt=\"Star Jaws\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Will Eisner<\/strong>, with <strong>Keith Diaczun<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Barry Caldwell<\/strong> (Scholastic Book Services)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-5638-9789-X \/ 89-70123-8<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an odd little item that will probably never be reprinted, although it&#8217;s definitely worth a look if you should ever stumble across a copy.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s Will Eisner was working as a cartoonist and commercial designer, but took time out to oversee this collection of children&#8217;s gags and jokes that cashed in on the twin movie crazes of <strong>Jaws<\/strong> (the shark not the Bond villain played by Richard Kiel) and the science fiction boom generated by the first <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> film.<\/p>\n<p>Executed in tone and wash, and if I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1978, 2004 Will Eisner. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Will Eisner, with Keith Diaczun &amp; Barry Caldwell (Scholastic Book Services) ISBN: 1-5638-9789-X \/ 89-70123-8 Here&#8217;s an odd little item that will probably never be reprinted, although it&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/01\/star-jaws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Jaws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-ox","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}