NAME: Fishman
SPECIES/ DESCRIPTION: Fishman
OCCUPATION: Fishman
BIRTHPLACE: I dunno.
MARITAL STATUS: I dunno.
GREATEST AMBITION: Well, my best guess is that it's got something to do with... ahhhh, I dunno.
FAVORITE THINGS: Raindrops on rooftops, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woollen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with string, and I dunno.
SANE? C'mon, admit it, you're sick of this question.

Precious little is known of the strange, ubiquitous, big- toothed being called Fishman. Few even realize that there is such a ubiquitous big-toothed being, and fewer still realize that if there were one, they would call him Fishman. Where does he come from? Why does he never speak? Is he shy? Is he mute? Has he nothing to contribute to the conversation? Or is it simply that whenever he walks into a room, the ongoing conversation is about golf, and he doesn't really care about golf? Is he a man in a fish suit? Is he a fish in a man suit, albeit a very poorly designed man suit? By the time you are finished reading all this, will you have learned anything about Fishman? Is there a point to any of this? The answer, as always, is

 

Fishman was created on August 12, 1993, a wordless summer
afternoon, and has stubbornly refused to speak since.
He has graced the foregrounds and backgrounds of Fluble comics
since September of that year, and has recently developed a fondness
for 19th century ornithopters.