Discover Your Inner Hermit Crab

Sherman's Lagoon #15

by Jim Toomey

Inhabitants of this nautical neighborhood include Sherman, an always-hungry-but-otherwise-typical great white shark; his witty, pearl-wearing wife, Megan; friendly Fillmore the turtle; geeky fish Ernest; macho hermit crab Hawthorne; and salty old Captain Quigley, who remains vengeful having lost his leg to Sherman.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Comic Strips, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2010

About the author

Jim Toomey is an internationally published humor writer and syndicated cartoonist best known as the creator of the popular comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon, published daily in over 150 newspapers including The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. Jim has produced 28 Sherman’s Lagoon books, published by Andrews McMeel, and most recently a travel memoir, entitled Family Afloat, about his two years sailing the world’s oceans with his wife and family.

Sherman's Lagoon combines two of his lifelong interests: art and the sea. In addition to drawing his comic strip, Jim is active in ocean conservation and serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Jim has given talks at a variety of venues, including the Royal Society in London, Harvard University and twice at TED. The conservation message in his comic strip earned him the Environmental Hero Award in 2000, presented by NOAA “for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage.” Jim won the award again in 2010.

Jim holds degrees from Duke and Stanford. He currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and two children, where he tries to get his family back on a sailboat as frequently as possible but can rarely make it happen.

Reviews

[spike marlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sherman’s Lagoon books drive my wife crazy. Especially when I am reading them in bed at night and my wife is trying to fall asleep. My giggling and laughter keeps her up and I end up having to leave and go read them somewhere else. Always a great read always full of laughter.

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favourite cartoon

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hee hee Sherman.

Hawthorne's corrupt businesses are hilarious.

[foom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Give this an extra star if you're a big fan of Sherman's Lagoon. Two if you're a completionist.

A decent comic strip book. The weekend comics are presented in colour. This isn't a "best of" or themed collection. There's a few great comics, but most are fairly average. Strips are presented in order with storylines usually finishing over 3 or 5 pages.

There was only a single strip in this entire collection that I disliked. I really enjoyed the twitter one on page around 105.

[Mary Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely written more for adults. Kids would enjoy but more adult humor.