Around 1990, he moved toAustin, Texas, a state he had visited multiple times as a child to see family.[2] In Austin, Wheeler continuedTooth and Justice for theUniversity of Texas student paperThe Daily Texan. Ending that strip, he published other daily cartoons with the paper, with titles likeLife and Times andInterlude.[5]
In 1991, Wheeler created thesatiricalsuperheroToo Much Coffee Man to star in aminicomic promotingChildren with Glue, a collection of his daily strips.[5] The popularity of Too Much Coffee Man led to the character starring in a weeklycomic strip in 1991. The character appeared in a series of self-publishedzines,comic books,magazines, andwebcomics for a number of years. After Wheeler moved toPortland, Oregon, in 1998,[6]Dark Horse Comics (based nearby) began publishingTMCM collections. In 2006 Wheeler and Daniel Steven Crafts co-produced theToo Much Coffee Man Opera[7] (in one act), followed byToo Much Coffee Man Opera, The Refill (in two acts) in 2008. Dark Horse released the ultimate TMCM collection in 2011, theToo Much Coffee Man Omnibus; whileBOOM! Studios releasedToo Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island and Other Stories in 2012.
His weekly stripPostage Stamp Funnies appeared in the satirical newspaperThe Onion until 2009, when he began contributing toThe New Yorker magazine.[8] In 2010,Boom! Studios published a collection of Wheeler's cartoons that had been rejected byThe New Yorker calledI Thought You Would Be Funnier. While initially left off the ballot for theEisner Awards for 2011,[9] the book went on to win Best Humor publication that year.[10]
Waiting for Justice, columns by Carolyn Jones, cartoons by Wheeler (The Daily Californian, Berkeley, California, 1987)
Jab (Adhesive Comics, 1992–1995) – Austin, Texas–based anthology featuring Wheeler, Wiley Akins, Ashley Underwood, Tom King, Walt Holcombe, Rob Bostick, Mitchelle Crisp, Matthew Dutchman, Jason Storey, John Bruch, Lance Myers,Rick Klaw, and Joe Don Baker
Do I Come Here Often? (Black Coffee Blues, Pt. 2), written byHenry Rollins, illustrated by Wheeler (2.13.61, 1998)
Jobs That Don't Suck: What Nobody Else Will Tell You About Getting and Succeeding in the Job of Your Dreams, written by Charlie Drozdyk, illustrated by Wheeler (Ballantine Books, 1998)ISBN0345424263
