Too Much Coffee Man

Too Much Coffee Man
Too Much Coffee Man Art by Shannon Wheeler.
Publication information
Publisher	Adhesive Comics (1993–2005) Dark Horse Comics (1994–2011) Boom Studios (2012)
First appearance	Too Much Coffee Man Minicomic (1991)
Created by	Shannon Wheeler
In-story information
Species	Human?
Place of origin	Coffee shops and apartments on Earth
Partnerships	Too Much Espresso Guy Too Much German White Chocolate Woman With Almonds Underwater Guy Mystery Woman
Abilities	Existentialist debater
Too Much Coffee Man
Series publication information
Schedule	Irregular
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Independent
Publication date	(Adhesive Comics) July 1993 – Feb. 2005
Number of issues	20
Main character(s)	Too Much Coffee Man
Creative team
Writer(s)	Shannon Wheeler
Artist(s)	Shannon Wheeler
Collected editions
Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus
Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island and Other Stories

Too Much Coffee Man (TMCM) is an American satirical superhero created by cartoonist Shannon Wheeler. Too Much Coffee Man wears what appears to be a spandex version of old-fashioned red "long johns" with a large mug attached atop his head. He is an anxious Everyman who broods about the state of the world, from politics to people, exchanging thoughts with friends and readers.

The strip is most often presented as a single page in alternative press newspapers, though occasionally the story arc stretches into multi-page stories. TMCM has appeared in comic strips, minicomics, webcomics, comic books, magazines, books, and operas. The Too Much Coffee Man comic book won the 1995 Eisner Award for Best New Series.

Too Much Coffee Man first appeared in 1991, in the Too Much Coffee Man Minicomic, as a self-promotion for Wheeler's book Children with Glue (Blackbird Comics, 1991). The minicomics, which appeared in many different formats, even one issued as a one-inch square, were self-published, photocopied, and handmade by Wheeler in initial runs of 300 black-and-white copies.

Wheeler said he created Too Much Coffee Man to make more accessible themes he had begun in a college newspaper. He said in 2011:

In 1991, I drew an autobiographical cartoon for The Daily Texan with themes of alienation and loneliness. When I described it, people's eyes glazed over. As a cheap gag, I started Too Much Coffee Man. I still address the same themes, except now there's coffee. People like coffee.