Shannon Wheeler

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Shannon Wheeler is the creator of the comic strip Too Much Coffee Man.

Shannon Wheeler is the recipient of multiple awards including the Hatch Broadcasting Award (for a Converse tennis shoe commercial) and an Eisner Award (frequently called the Oscar of comics). He started cartooning in the late 80s while studying architecture at UC Berkeley. He has worked in animation and illustration. Shannon also published a humor magazine for a number of years. Too Much Coffee Man, as a comic, has appeared internationally in newspapers, magazines and comic books. Dark Horse Comics has published five graphic novels that collect most of the work. His weekly strip Postage Stamp Funnies appeared in print edition of The Onion until 2009.

2006 saw the production of a "Too Much Coffee Man Opera" at the Portland Center of Performing Arts. It's the first opera to have been based on a comic book.

In 2009, Wheeler began publishing his comics in the The New Yorker.^[1]

Wheeler grew up in Berkeley, California where he attended the Walden Center and School and later graduated from Berkeley High School before attending the University of California - Berkeley where he graduated in 1989. In the early 90s, he resided in Austin, Texas, whose laid-back cafe culture fueled and supported the creation of Too Much Coffee Man.

Wheeler currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

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• Too Much Coffee Man
• Guest Comic Strip (Done for Dork Tower 2004)
• An interview with Shannon Wheeler at The Daily Cross Hatch, from March 26, 2007
• An Interview with Shannon Wheeler at The Wright Opinion, from November 11, 2007