Sherman's Lagoon, 1991 to 2001: Greatest Hits and Near Misses

The years 1991 through 2001 were marked by tragedy, triumph, wars, famine, technological innovation, political upheaval, global warming, religious stvite, cultural revolution, shifting paradigms, continental drift, Barney the Dinosaur, media deregulation, economic destabilization, nuclear proliferation, geopolitical reorientation, deciduous deforestation, and a host of other significant trends, personalities, and events, none of which are referenced in this book, with the possible exception of Barney the Dinosaur. Instead, you'll discover in this Sherman's Lagoon treasury a chronicle of ten years in the life of an imaginary lagoon and its imaginary water-breathing inhabitants. And, since this book is also a chronicle of the gradual degradation of the sanity of a cartoonist who committed himself to witing fish jokes every day for ten years, we invite you, the reader, to speculate when, at which cartoon, on which day, he finally lost it. -The Editors