'Lagoon' Comic Collection Coming

Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:00 am

By: E&P Staff The 12th collection of "Sherman's Lagoon" will be released next month by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

It's titled "Yarns and Shanties (and Other Nautical Baloney)."

Jim Toomey's comic, which stars a cast of sea creatures, runs in about 250 newspapers via King Features Syndicate.

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