Shannon Wheeler is an American cartoonist, best known as a cartoonist forThe New Yorker and for creating thesatiricalsuperheroToo Much Coffee Man.

Shannon Wheeler
Shannon Wheeler
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Publisher
Notable works	Too Much Coffee Man
Awards	Eisner Award, 1995, 2011
http://www.tmcm.com

Shannon Wheeler grew up inBerkeley, California,^[1] brought up by his mother.^[2] His father left the family to start acommune north of San Francisco. Wheeler also has two half-sisters.^[2] Wheeler attended the Walden Center and School.^{[citation needed]} He later attendedBerkeley High School,^[3] eventually graduating from theUniversity of California, Berkeley with a degree inarchitecture^[4] in 1989.^{[citation needed]}

He startedcartooning while at UC Berkeley, publishing his daily gag cartoonsCalaboose and thenTooth and Justice inThe Daily Californian.^{[citation needed]}

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.

From 2004 until 2008, Wheeler contributed to many of theIdiot's Guide books.^{[citation needed]}

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]

Wheeler lives in Portland, Oregon, with his twin sons.^[1]

• Hatch Broadcasting Award (for aConverse shoe commercial featuring Too Much Coffee Man)^[11]
• 1995Eisner Award forBest New Series:Too Much Coffee Man, by Shannon Wheeler (Adhesive Comics)^[12]
• 2011 Eisner Award forBest Humor Publication:I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (Boom! Studios)^[13]
• 2011 nomination,Harvey Award, Special Award for Humor in Comics:I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (Boom! Studios)^[14] nomination.
• 2018Inkpot Award winner^[15]

• Children with Glue (self-published, 1989; reissued by Blackbird Comics, 1991)
• Too Much Coffee Man
  • Too Much Coffee Man Mini Comics (self-published, Austin, TX, 1991)
  • Too Much Coffee Man Comic Book (Adhesive Comics, Austin, TX, 1993–2001)
  • Too Much Coffee Man Webcomic by Shannon Wheeler (beginning in Austin, TX, 1995, ongoing)
  • Too Much Coffee Man's Guide for the Perplexed (Dark Horse, 1998)ISBN 1-56971-289-1
  • Too Much Coffee Man's Parade of Tirade (Dark Horse, 2000)ISBN 1-56971-437-1 – introduction byHenry Rollins
  • Too Much Coffee Man's Amusing Musings (Dark Horse, 2001)ISBN 1-56971-663-3
  • Too Much Coffee Man Magazine (Adhesive Comics, Portland, OR, 2002–2006)
  • How to be Happy (Too Much Coffee Man) (Dark Horse, 2005)ISBN 1-59307-353-4
  • Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus (Dark Horse, August 2011)ISBN 1-59582-307-7
  • Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island and Other Stories (BOOM! Studios, March 2012)ISBN 1-60886-098-1
• Wake Up and Smell the Cartoons of Shannon Wheeler (Mojo Press, 1997)ISBN 1-885418-18-3 – introduction byJeff Smith
• Screw Heaven, When I Die I'm Going to Mars (Dark Horse, 2007)ISBN 1-59307-820-X
• Postage Stamp Funnies (Dark Horse, 2008)ISBN 1-59307-983-4
• I Thought You Would Be Funnier (BOOM! Studios, 2010)ISBN 1-60886-034-5
• I Told You So (BOOM! Studios, May 2012)ISBN 1-60886-093-0
• Astounding Villain House (Dark Horse, October 2013)

• 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)ISBN 0345424263
• Grandpa Won't Wake Up, written by Simon Max Hill, illustrated by Wheeler (BOOM! Studios, October 2011)ISBN 1-60886-092-2
• Oil & Water, written by Steve Duin, illustrated by Wheeler (Fantagraphics, November 2011)ISBN 1-60699-492-1
• God is Disappointed in You, written by Mark Russell, cartoons by Wheeler (Top Shelf, 2012)ISBN 978-1-60309-098-8

• Too Much Coffee Man Opera (creator, co-librettist, producer) with Daniel Steven Crafts
• Too Much Coffee Man Opera, The Refill (creator, co-librettist, producer) with Daniel Steven Crafts

• Adhesive Comics (official site).Archived from the original on February 2, 2015.
• Shannon Wheeler at theGrand Comics Database
• Shannon Wheeler at the Comic Book DB (archived fromthe original)
• Wheeler, Shannon."Nilharity". Act-i-vate.com.Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. RetrievedSeptember 23, 2011.

• Transcript, interview from NextPlanetOver.com (March 1999)
• Acid Logic: Shannon Wheeler interview (August 12, 2002)
• "An interview with Shannon Wheeler". The Daily Cross Hatch. March 26, 2007.Archived February 27, 2015, at theWayback Machine