Shannon grew up in Berkeley, California and started cartooning at UC Berkeley, publishing daily gag cartoons "Calaboose" and then "Tooth and Justice" in The Daily Californian. He moved to Austin, Texas and created the Too Much Coffee Man as the star of a weekly comic strip in 1990. He eventually published the character in a series of self-published zines, comic books, magazines, and webcomics for a number of years, culminating in 2006 with the Portland, Oregon production: Too Much Coffee Man Opera (in one act), followed by Too Much Coffee Man Opera, The Refill (in two acts) in 2008.
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, Wheeler published a collection of his cartoons rejected by The New Yorker called I Thought You Would Be Funnier. In 2011, Shannon was kind enough to allow The Portland Alliance to begin publishing his cartoons in their radical, underground, counter-cultural progressive newspaper.
"Just got home from the follow up on the Paranormal investigation research today. Hopefully the first installment on this comic will be available here late next month or early August. The other night I did a drawing of Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man.
I thought I would share it here. He is a swell guy that does swell comics."
About treebeerdy
I am a freelance artist that has been drawing comics for about half my life. I try to work in all mediums that I possibly can but love working with a brush and a bottle of ink. If you like what you see here and need an artist for something, drop me a line.