Jim Toomey

Toomey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco unveil the poster he designed for NOAA's Marine Protected Areas Center in 2009. James Patrick Toomey is an American cartoonist, creator of Sherman's Lagoon. The comic strip appears in over 150 newspapers in North America, including the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, and the Denver Post.

Creative works A Giant Squid Walks Into a Bar... - Oct. 2025 Crabbily Ever After - Oct. 2024 Things Are Looking Up - Oct. 2023 You Need This Book Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Oct. 2022 Adventures in Aquaculture - Oct. 2021 Evolution Is Hard Work! - Oct. 2020 If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em - Oct. 2019 The Adventures of Superfish & His Superfishal Friends - Oct. 2018 Onward and Downward - Oct. 2017 Happy as a Clam - Oct. 2016 Tales from the Deep - Oct. 2015 Lunch Wore a Speedo - Oct. 2014 Here We Go Again - Oct. 2013 Think Like a Shark - Sep. 2012 Never Bite Anything That Bites Back - Sep. 2011 Discover Your Inner Hermit Crab - Sep. 2010 Confessions of a Swinging Single Sea Turtle - Sep. 2009 Sharks Just Wanna Have Fun - Sep. 2008 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 - Sep 2002 Another Day in Paradise - Sep 2001 An Illustrated Guide to Shark Etiquette - Sep 2000 Poodle: The Other White Meat - Sep 1999 Ate That, What's Next? - Sep. 1997 Lagunen - Sep. 1996 (Norwegian) Sigges Lagun - Sep. 1994 (Swedish) You Got In! Now What? - 2025 (illustrator; written by James Hamilton) 50 Ways to Save the Ocean - 2006 (illustrator; written by David Helvarg)