By Sopan Deb Roger Kastel, an artist whose painting for the “Jaws” poster — of a menacing shark with bared teeth looming below an insouciant skinny dipper — became one of the most enduring ...

Kastel produced the oil-on-board painting that became the cover of the Bantam paperback (above, center) and the Universal Studios “Jaws” poster that followed (above, right). Like any good ...

Shark’s in the water. And that’s OK. The infamously doomed swimmer moments away from a vicious death on the iconic “Jaws” poster offered a pointed message half a century after posing for ...

who has a copy of the poster signed by Spielberg. “But I think everyone assumed the girl swimming was the girl from the movie.” Kastel painted oil on Masonite, and “Jaws” didn’t take him ...

It won't be their first—or even their second or third (or fourth) Jaws poster—but there's a fundamental difference this time. Instead of the typical Mondo M.O., distilling the spirit of a ...

An iconic artist with over 1,000 illustrations – including movie posters for the movies “Jaws” and “The Empire Strikes Back” – Roger Karl Kastel has died at age 92 in Worcester County ...

We lost another creative brother … Roger Kastel who gave us the iconic “Jaws” poster among other wonderful pieces of art. It saddens me. Could the lesson be to appreciate all the more our ...

Movie fans are divided over a Jaws poster, which clearly features a hidden predator of the deep. Cleverly disguised in the poster is a great white shark lurking in the shallows, but some fans ...

Sci-fi nuts have the chance to own a piece of movie history with a poster depicting the first ever Jedi film. The image on the Jaws poster is one of the most famous pictures of all timeCredit ...

Roger Kastel, the artist whose painting of a shark and a swimmer for the cover of the paperback version of Peter Benchley’s Jaws was used as the iconic movie poster for the 1975 Steven Spielberg ...