Jim Toomey

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Jim Toomey

Birth name	James Patrick Toomey
Born	December 26, 1960 (1960-12-26) (age 47) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Nationality	American
Notable works	Sherman's Lagoon

Jim Toomey is a syndicated cartoonist best known as the creator of Sherman's Lagoon , distributed by King Features Syndicate. Sherman's Lagoon appears in over 250 newspapers in North America, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle. It also appears in over 30 foreign countries, in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish. Jim has just completed his fourteenth book, entitled Yarns & Shanties, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Sherman's Lagoon is a combination of his two life-long passions: drawing and the sea. Jim’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. Jim became a certified diver at the age of twelve, 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. Jim's also an avid sailor.

He received a B.S.E. from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in 1983, an M.L.A. from Stanford University in 1995, and a Master's of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences in 2008.

1 Creative Works
2 External links
3 Awards
4 Board Positions

[edit] Creative Works

Toomey's latest collection, Yarns and Shanties, published in 2007

Yarns and Shanties - Sep. 2007
Planet of the Hairless Beach Apes - Sep. 2006
In Shark Years I'm Dead - March 2006
A Day at the Beach - March 2005
Surfer Safari - Sep. 2005
Catch of the Day - Sep. 2004
Shark Diaries - Sep. 2003
A Lagoa de Sherman - Sep. 2003 (Spanish)
Le Lagon de Sherman - Sep. 2003 (French)
Greatest Hits & Near Misses - Sep. 2002
Surf's Up - March 2003
Greetings from Sherman's Lagoon - March 2002
Another Day in Paradise - Sep. 2001
Poodle: The Other White Meat - March 1999
An Illustrated Guide to Shark Etiquette - Sep. 2000
Ate That, What's Next? - Sep. 1997
Lagunen - Sep. 1996 (Norwegian)
Sigges Lagun - Sep. 1994 (Swedish)