In Shark Years I'm Dead: Sherman's Lagoon Turns Fifteen Paperback - 2006

After ten book collections and a treasury, great white shark Sherman and the Lagoonies celebrate 15 years of life under the sea with this new collection of creator Jim Toomey's daily cartoons and full-color Sundays.

In an imaginary lagoon near the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific lives a group of nutty but sophisticated underwater creatures-complete with neuroses that rival those of humans (also known as "hairless beach apes"). Their wet world, oddly enough, is not so different from our own.

Sherman, a great white shark, is a typical guy, and Megan is his ruthless but nurturing wife. Rounding out the aquatic crew are Fillmore the turtle, geeky fish Ernest, and macho hermit crab Hawthorne. Salty old Captain Quigley, who lost his leg to Sherman years ago, is hell-bent on seeking revenge against the shark.

Sherman and friends effectively reflect human behavior and occasionally must confront humans' encroachment on their unspoiled habitat. Activist groups have applauded this comic strip with a social conscience for promoting marine conservation.

Sherman's Lagoon has been syndicated since 1991, currently by King Features, and has a circulation of more than 200 daily newspapers on five continents.

Details

• Title In Shark Years I'm Dead: Sherman's Lagoon Turns Fifteen
• Author Jim Toomey
• Binding Paperback
• Edition F First Paperbac
• Pages 256
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Date April 1, 2006
• Illustrated Yes
• ISBN 9780740757020 / 0740757024
• Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
• Dimensions 8.5 x 10.9 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 27.69 x 1.52 cm)
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005936148
• Dewey Decimal Code 741.5