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. His father left the family to start a commune north of San Francisco. Wheeler also has two half-sisters. 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 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". 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. 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, 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.