"[It] Looked Like a Penis": The Origin of the Iconic 'Jaws' Art
A nude swimmer and a phallic-looking fish nearly sunk one of the most recognizable book covers of modern times.
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A nude swimmer and a phallic-looking fish nearly sunk one of the most recognizable book covers of modern times.
Roger Kastel, an artist whose painting for the Jaws poster of a menacing shark with bared teeth looming below an insouciant skinny
A prolific illustrator, he was most closely associated with the image that made the “Jaws” paperback a runaway best seller, and the blockbuster film it inspired an enduring classic.
Roger Kastel painted the image for the cover of the paperback edition of the 1974 Peter Benchley novel on which the 1975 blockbuster film, directed by Steven Spielberg, was based.