Shannon Wheeler's "I Don't Get It" from Boom! Studios

BOOM! Town, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, is excited to announce the January 22nd release of I DON’T GET IT, a follow-up hardcover collection to Shannon Wheeler’s I TOLD YOU SO and Eisner Award-winning I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER books. As with the previous two volumes, I DON’T GET IT is a “best of” collection of cartoons Wheeler created for The New Yorker that were not accepted for publication. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine containing articles, short stories, and essays that focus on the cultural life of New York City.

“A new collection of cartoons from Shannon is always a highlight for me,” said BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon. “Shannon is one of a kind, a cartoonist with a singular voice and a gift for delivering sharp humor and biting observations. We're thrilled to continue this award-winning tradition of collecting Shannon's best cartoons that ended up on the cutting-room floor!”

Where do cartoons go when they’ve been bounced by The New Yorker? When they’re as funny as what’s floating in TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN creator Shannon Wheeler’s brain, they’re boiled down to the best of the bounced and presented in one laugh-out-loud volume. Featuring an introduction by Keith Knight (THE K CHRONICLES, THE KNIGHT LIFE), I DON’T GET IT is the latest collection of wheeler cartoons that will leave you wondering why they never made it to publication.

I DON’T GET IT arrives in comic shops on January 22nd with a cover price of $17.99 under Diamond order code NOV130881. Not sure where to find your nearest comic retailer? Use comicshoplocator.com or findacomicshop.com to find one! It’s also available for order directly from boom-studios.com.

Shannon Wheeler's Villain House in Dark Horse Presents

Shannon Wheeler returns to the pages of comics’ greatest anthology, Dark Horse Presents, with Villain House!

Villain House marks the creation of a new world of villains and villainy from the mind of Eisner Award winner Shannon Wheeler.

The first Villain House story is about two villains, the Pachyderm and the Squid, who break out of prison to go on a crime spree, albeit a short one. The ending is a tragic, below-the-belt plot twist that is more than a little heartbreaking. The second story is about a blind date gone bad involving Satan’s Son. The third story has multiple supervillains meeting up at the house of the Buzzard to plan a bank robbery.

“All the stories drip with irony and plot twists. Characters from one story are picked up in another story so that while each plot is independent there’s an odd overlap. For example, one of Satan’s Son’s henchmen from the second story shows up in the third story to help plan the bank heist,” noted Shannon Wheeler.

Catch Villain House appearing in Dark Horse Presents #21, on sale Wednesday, February 20^th!

Boom! Studios April Solicitations

Here are Boom! Studios April Solicitations. There are quite a few incredible series continuing with a few new series! 

FANBOYS VS. ZOMBIES #1 (A)
FANBOYS VS. ZOMBIES #1 (B)
Written by Sam Humphries
Drawn by Jerry Gaylord
SC, 32 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code: FEB120828

SPECIAL $1 DEBUT ISSUE! NEW ONGOING SERIES! One is a decrepit mob of gurgling, ravenous fiends…and the other is a zombie outbreak. When there is no more room in Hell, the undead shall take over Comic-Con! A crew of feuding best friends find themselves trapped inside America’s largest comic convention transformed into a seething cauldron of zombies. Is a horde of starving brain-eaters any match against reflexes battle-hardened by video games, nerves tested by horror flicks, and courage crystallized by comic books? Find out as an unlikely band of nerds use their genre savvy to survive in Fanboys vs. Zombies! Written by indie sensation Sam Humphries (OUR LOVE IS REAL) with art by hot new talent Jerry Gaylord! Don’t forget to ask your retailer about the rare CGC 9.8 Near Mint variant by MARVEL ZOMBIES artist and Zombie King Arthur Suydam!

Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island Preview

A new cartoon collection from the Eisner Award- winning and current New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Shannon Wheeler! Too Much Coffee Man, the long-underwear-clad hero who’s been delighting fans for two decades, returns to the printed page in his first all-new adventures since having his life remade in opera form. Wheeler remains one of the best satirist 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: CUTIE ISLAND
Written by Shannon Wheeler
Drawn by Shannon Wheeler
TPB, 192pgs, FC, SRP: $17.99

Boom! Studios

In stores: Wednesday, February 22nd

Preview Pages in Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island TPB

Too Much Coffee Man: Facsimilie Edition #2

Too Much Coffee Man comes to BOOM! Town! Shannon Wheeler’s titan of alt-comix continues in this new edition of the classic #2 issue. In advance of the new TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN: CUTIE ISLAND graphic novel coming next year, and on the heels of Wheeler’s Eisner win for Best Humor Publication, wet your caffeine whistle with a dose of everyone’s favorite anxiety-riddled superhuman. Share in the whole-bean pathos of the stories that launched Too Much Coffee Man into 20 years of bringing us the best in angst and hilarity!

Preview Pages in Too Much Coffee Man: Facsimilie Edition #2

Boom! Studios, Too Much Coffee Man: Facsimilie Edition #2 will be in stores this Wednesday, January 25th. The series was created by Shannon Wheeler who not only writes the series, but is responsible for the art as well. If you have not had a chance to read anything from Shannon Wheeler, you are truly missing out. He is genius with great humor in his works.

Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island

This February, BOOM! Town issues the first all-new TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN work from Shannon Wheeler in 4 years! Share in the new, insightful, witty, nerve-jittering comedy of the stories that continue Eisner Award-winner Shannon Wheeler’s (I THOUGHT YOU'D BE FUNNIER, GRANDPA WON'T WAKE UP) 20-year career. BOOM! Town offers this first-time-in-print, 192-page graphic novel of Wheeler's classic character on the heels of his Eisner win for Best Humor Publication.

“I bought one of the original TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN mini-comics from Shannon himself back in Austin in 1990. Shannon and I go back that far, so it’s with great pride and joy that I point out that Shannon Wheeler is one of the alt-comix greats,” says BOOM! Studios Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ross Richie. “I've avidly followed his continued posting of TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN online and couldn't help but want to bring it all to print.”

“This character has been vital and relevant for 20 years and continues to be one of the gold standards in comic book humor!,” says BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon. “Too Much Coffee Man is an icon in the indie world and we have a chance to continue the legacy. Shannon’s long-underwear hero has displayed decades-long staying power. This beautiful graphic novel collects great new stories any fan, or TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN beginner will adore.”

TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN: CUTIE ISLAND tells the story of a cynical anxiety-riddled superhuman who waxes long on everything from politics to the state of the world to people along with other featured non-Coffee Man tales in Wheeler's world.

TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN: CUTIE ISLAND is written and drawn by Shannon Wheeler (I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER, GRANDPA WON'T WAKE UP). The book features 192-pages of story and carries a price point of $17.99 with a Diamond Code of DEC110934.

Shannon Wheeler's Award Winning I Thought You Would Be Funnier HC

The smash-hit, sold-out Eisner-nominated collection from Shannon Wheeler is back, in a new gift-friendly hardcover edition! I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER features the best-of-the-best of what’s left on the cutting room floor from critically acclaimed Shannon Wheeler’s cartoon submissions to The New Yorker Magazine. Shannon has won a dedicated following through his cartoons for The New Yorker, The Onion, and his own creation, Too Much Coffee Man. Having quickly sold out previously in trade paperback, this new hardcover edition is sure to delight humor fans everywhere!

 

This is a great collection of comic strips! Shannon Wheeler is a genius. We have the I Thought It Would Be Funnier TPB already, but we will need to buy this HC for our collection. 

Boom! Studios I Thought It Would Be Funnier HC from Shannon Wheeler will be available next Wednesday, December 7th with a cover price of $17.99.

Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus Created by the Great Shannon Wheeler

Shannon Wheeler was once just another ambitious cartoonist with some big ideas (and some small ones, too), a wicked sense of humor, a questioning spirit, and a coffee jones the size of a tanker truck. Who would have ever guessed that ten years later, he would have multiple volumes of critically acclaimed cartoons under his belt and a rich, satisfying career? Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus gathers all of the cartoons from four hilarious volumes of work, bringing together all of Wheeler's signature satire and sweetness in one convenient package. Essential for Too Much Coffee Man fans, and sure to convert new ones!

Shannon Wheeler, the recipient of multiple awards, began cartooning in the late 1980s while studying architecture at UC Berkeley and has worked in animation and illustration. Too Much Coffee Man, as a comic, has appeared internationally in newspapers, magazines, comic books, and graphic novels. Dark Horse Comics has published five graphic novels that collect most of the work. His weekly strip Postage Stamp Funnies appears in the print edition of The Onion. 2006 saw the production of a Too Much Coffee Man Opera at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. It's the first opera to have been based on a comic book.