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Original “Sherman’s Lagoon” Comic Strip

You are bidding on an original “Sherman’s Lagoon” Sunday comic strip drawn by Jim Toomey and originally published on September 29, 1996.  The comic strip measures approximately approximately 8"x16" (20cm X 40cm).  The artwork is black and white, drawn with india ink on bristol board, and has a few imperfections such as rough pencil marks in light blue, and spots of white-out.

About Sherman's Lagoon

Sherman's Lagoon is a comic strip by Jim Toomey that is syndicated daily in over 150 newspapers worldwide. It takes place at the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago of Micronesia.It is centered on the misadventures of an overweight, lazy great white shark named Sherman, his controlling, hot-tempered wife Megan, and the friends and foes they share their tropical home with.

About Jim Toomey

For the past 13 years Jim Toomey has been creating the daily comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, which appears in over 150 newspapers in North America. Toomey's latest book of comics (his fifteenth) is Discover Your Inner Hermit Crab, and the strip has recently become a musical.

Sherman's Lagoon is a combination of Toomey’s two lifelong passions: drawing and the sea. He’s been engaged in the former activity since he could hold a crayon, and his love affair with the sea dates back to his early childhood. The inspiration for the comic strip can be traced back to a family vacation in the Bahamas where he saw a real shark swimming in a remote lagoon. Toomey became a certified diver at the age of 12, and, as an adult, has logged dives all over the world, including Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America, and extensively in the kelp forests of California.

Watch Jim Toomey's TED Talk: "Learning from Sherman the Shark".

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