Shannon Wheeler

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

Shannon Wheeler is an American cartoonist, best known as a cartoonist for The New Yorker and for creating the satirical superhero Too Much Coffee Man.

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Early life

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

Career

He started cartooning while at UC Berkeley, publishing his daily gag cartoons Calaboose and then Tooth and Justice in The Daily Californian .[ citation needed ]

Around 1990, he moved to Austin, Texas, a state he had visited multiple times as a child to see family. [2] In Austin, Wheeler continued Tooth and Justice for the University of Texas student paper The Daily Texan . Ending that strip, he published other daily cartoons with the paper, with titles like Life and Times and Interlude. [5]

In 1991, Wheeler created the satirical superhero Too Much Coffee Man to star in a minicomic promoting Children with Glue, a collection of his daily strips. [5] The popularity of Too Much Coffee Man led to the character starring in a weekly comic strip in 1991. The character appeared in a series of self-published zines, comic books, magazines, and webcomics for a number of years. After Wheeler moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1998, [6] Dark Horse Comics (based nearby) began publishing TMCM collections. In 2006 Wheeler and Daniel Steven Crafts co-produced the Too Much Coffee Man Opera [7] (in one act), followed by Too Much Coffee Man Opera, The Refill (in two acts) in 2008. Dark Horse released the ultimate TMCM collection in 2011, the Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus; while BOOM! Studios released Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island and Other Stories in 2012.

From 2004 until 2008, Wheeler contributed to many of the Idiot's Guide books.[ citation needed ]

His weekly strip Postage Stamp Funnies appeared in the satirical newspaper The Onion until 2009, when he began contributing to The New Yorker magazine. [8] In 2010, Boom! Studios published a collection of Wheeler's cartoons that had been rejected by The New Yorker called I Thought You Would Be Funnier. While initially left off the ballot for the Eisner Awards for 2011, [9] the book went on to win Best Humor publication that year. [10]

Personal life

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

Awards

Bibliography

Solo work

Collaborative works

Stage

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