You Need This Book Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle: Volume 27

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.