Shannon Wheeler

Check out my posts on the The New Yorker’s Cartoon Bank Blog.

• PORTLANDVILLE: A LEFT-COAST CARTOONIST ON HIS UNSPOOFABLE CITY: ”Shannon Wheeler shares his thoughts on ‘Portlandia,’ IFC’s new sketch-comedy show making lighthearted fun of Wheeler’s Oregon hometown.”
• SHANNON WHEELER: “FUNNY AND TRAGIC IS FUNNIER THAN FUNNY,”: “Shannon Wheeler is a New Yorker cartoonist who doesn’t fit the New Yorker cartoonist mold – or, rather, is proof that the mold has radically changed since the magazine’s earliest days. He doesn’t call New York City home, having instead lived in some of the most un-New York cities in the country: Berkeley, Austin, and Portland, Oregon. He’s not a one-trick pony, either: Though his work didn’t appear in The New Yorker until 2009, Shannon had by that time started his long-running comic, “Too Much Coffee Man,” later to be adapted to several graphic novels (not to mention an opera), and maintained a weekly strip in The Onion. His New Yorker contributions thus far have tended toward the cute and cuddly, but don’t be fooled – Shannon has plenty of opinions. We already got his perspective on the IFC show “Portlandia,” and were eager to hear more from this energetic left-coast artist.”

Check out my posts on other sites.

• See my wide range of reading on the Robot 6 Blog at Comic Book Resources.
• I regularly update cartoons for my Nihilarity section on Act-i-vate.com. MTV Geek has me talking about it here. I haven’t seen it. I hope it’s good.

Sometimes I get interviewed.

• Before the 2011 Eisner awards, the nominees from Portland got together and had a talk at Powell’s bookstore. Christian Lipski was there to cover the story.
• Jason Sacks at Comics Bulletin wrote about up-coming projects, mostly about Oil & Water, but also a few other books coming out later 2011 and early half of 2012.
• El Santo dug into the vaults to come up with this interview for Webcomic Overlook.
• MTV Geek interviewed me. See the videos.

Or, they talk about me when I’m not there.

• Steve Duin, my collaborator on Oil & Water, is the Metro columnist at The Oregonian Newspaper. He wrote about my latest Eisner win.
• The guys from Relium on the Angle Punk project are great, I work with them sometimes.
• I did a Master Session at 2011 SDCC for the CBLDF. See C.L.’s article on the PDX examiner.com.
• Henry Rollins plugged me into his interview about the Green Lantern. It was kind of him.
• Willamette Week‘s Casey Jarman wrote a review of the TMCM Omnibus. He did a good job.
• Ned Lannamann at the Mercury also got a review out on the Omnibus.