You Need This Book Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

Take a dive into the hilarious underwater world of Sherman's Lagoon, where humor, conflict, local politics, and pop culture all collide in an amusing maelstrom of aquatic comedy. Welcome to Sherman's Lagoon, an imaginary lagoon somewhere in the tropics, inhabited by a cast of sea creatures whose lives are curiously similar to our own. Through his popular, long-running strip, cartoonist Jim Toomey explores many of the issues that we face daily in our world on dry land. By putting them in a different context, he helps us laugh at ourselves. His characters attempt new business ventures, go on disastrous dates, try fad diets and read the latest best-selling books. But, they also have problems that are unique to fish. Throughout the pages of his newest collection, Toomey explores environmental themes in a light, apolitical way. And, he takes his characters out of the lagoon and into various travels where they explore different parts of the ocean and meet native species on their journeys.