Shannon Wheeler

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.

Early life Shannon Wheeler grew up in Berkeley, California, brought up by his mother. Wheeler attended the Walden Center and School. He later attended Berkeley High School, eventually graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in architecture in 1989.

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

Around 1990, he moved to Austin, Texas, a state he had visited multiple times as a child to see family.

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. Dark Horse Comics (based nearby) began publishing TMCM collections. In 2006 Wheeler and Daniel Steven Crafts co-produced the Too Much Coffee Man Opera (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.

His weekly strip Postage Stamp Funnies appeared in the satirical newspaper The Onion until 2009, when he began contributing to The New Yorker magazine. 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, the book went on to win Best Humor publication that year.

Personal life Wheeler lives in Portland, Oregon, with his twin sons. 1995 Eisner Award for Best New Series: Too Much Coffee Man, by Shannon Wheeler (Adhesive Comics) 2011 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication: I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (Boom! Studios) 2011 nomination, Harvey Award, Special Award for Humor in Comics: I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (Boom! Studios) nomination. 2018 Inkpot Award winner