Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

It becomes a near death experience for Sherman.

And I kind of broke the mold with Sherman.

My characters are my lead character's a shark named Sherman.

We start with Sherman in a Chinese restaurant, who gets a fortune that he's about to get caught by a trawler, which he does.

So the world should take note when they do not such as when US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, at a recent conference in Washington, DC, on Asian security, publicly scolded South Korea for its seemingly endless vilification of Japan. According to Sherman, South Korea s stance reflected in its demand that Japan apologize, once again, for forcing Korean women to provide sexual services to the Imperial Army during World War II has produced paralysis, not progress.

Cartoonist Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares his love of the ocean and the stories it can tell.

We were in a difficult operation in Afghanistan in 2007, and an old friend of mine, that I had spent many years at various points of my career with godfather to one of their kids he sent me a note, just in an envelope, that had a quote from Sherman to Grant that said, I knew if I ever got in a tight spot, that you would come, if alive.