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 80's 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 four graphic novels that collects most of the work. His weekly strip Postage Stamp Funnies appears in print edition of The Onion.

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.

Wheeler currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

[edit] External links

• 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