The origin of Too Much Coffee Man is revealed for the first time in this new confessional graphic novel by multi award-winning cartoonist Shannon Wheeler. Featuring decades of strips and comics with new sequential work connecting and commenting on each era, Wheeler analyzes formative periods in his life as a creator. College-era strips early in his cartooning career are mixed with new stories and gag comics to create a narrative arc that leads to Wheeler's work on Postage Stamp Funnies and Villain House ! Fans of Wheeler and the art of cartooning will enjoy this super-caffeinated collection detailing the origin of his most famous creation and his journey from cartooning for free for college papers to making a bit more money at The Onion, and ultimately making just a little bit more at The New Yorker—the apex job for a cartoonist! Too Much Coffee The Before Years HC collects comics from Wake Up and Smell the Cartoons and Children with Glue, Postage Stamp Funnies, Dark Horse Presents, and Shannon Wheeler's gag strips and comics from the Daily Californian and the Daily Texan, as well as a new 32-page color comics section.

Too Much Coffee Man is not so much about coffee as it is about life and figuring things out; there\`s a lot of free-thinking, bad puns, slapstick humor, and nickel philosophy. This unique collection features three, eight-page stories, a 32-page DHP story, the notorious seven-page, bullet-hole story, at least 65 individual, one-page strips, and an introduction by Beavis and Butthead creator, Mike Judge. Available in both softcover and limited-edition hardcover collections, both fully caffeinated!

Too Much Coffee Man has been percolating in the comics underground for years now, and like everything else that was once "alternative," he's sold out, been used by the man (as an advertising tool for Hewlitt Packard and Converse, among others), and is now middle-aged, depressed, broke, and cynical. Who better to write a book, then, called How to be Happy? Combining his signature formula of hilarious art, absurd but insightful observations, and bold humor, with his quickly deteriorating hope for humanity, Wheeler has crafted a comics collection custom made for the disaffected and disenfranchised.

For longer than a decade Shannon Wheeler's flagship character Too Much Coffee Man has cast his tender, cynical gaze on lots of stuff that deserves to be made fun of, from the insipidity of coffee consumer culture to the horrendous reality of dating. This latest collection of short cartoons takes a step back from the cartoonist's usual scrutiny of mundane pettiness and takes a somewhat sweeter look at life's bigger issues. The result is the funniest, most sharply executed collection of Wheeler's comics ever.

International comics sensation and opera star Too Much Coffee Man returns to the printed page! Collecting acclaimed cartoonist Shannon Wheeler’s musings on modern life, Cutie Island brings together Too Much Coffee Man and a host of other characters into one neuroses-packed volume! A new cartoon collection from the mind of Eisner Award-winning, Harvey-nominated, and current New Yorker cartoonist, Shannon Wheeler! Too Much Coffee Man, the long-underwear-clad hero, returns to the printed page in his first new adventures since having his life remade in opera form. Wheeler remains one of the best satirists of a generation, lending a hilariously cynical eye to Too Much Coffee Man’s struggle to make sense of the ever-changing modern world—with a space-octopus thrown in for good measure, of course.

Too Much Coffee Man doing his thing.