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Shannon Wheeler returns to the pages of comics’ greatest anthology, Dark Horse Presents, with Villain House!
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REVIEW: Adventure Time #7
What time is it? IT’S TIME FOR MAJOR SPOILERS TO REVIEW A COMIC BOOK! And that comic book just happens to be Adventure Time #7, written by the creator of the Dinosaur Comics webcomic, Ryan North!
MOCCA FEST’12: BOOM! Town to attend show
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BOOM! Town will be making its first appearance at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual MoCCA Festival, and will feature world-famous underground musician and artist Daniel Johnston with his new graphic novel, SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS. Daniel Johnston will also play a small set at the Museum’s benefit party on Saturday night, followed by a one-on-one interview panel at the show on Sunday. He will be joined at the BOOM! Town table by Shannon Wheeler (TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN), Rich Tommaso (PETE AND MIRIAM), as well as artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (ADVENTURE TIME).
SOLICITATIONS: BOOM! Studios announces Too Much Coffee Man – Cutie Island
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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.
APE 2011: Shannon Wheeler’s Grandpa Won’t Wake Up to debut at show
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Multiple Eisner Award winner, sensational New Yorker cartoonist and legendary indie comix creator Shannon Wheeler proudly debuts his latest book GRANDPA WON’T WAKE UP at this year’s Alternative Press Expo (APE) on October 1st and 2nd at the Concourse Exhibition in San Francisco, CA where Wheeler serves as a special guest of the show.
BCC’11: Shannon Wheeler added to guest list
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The Baltimore Comic-Con is excited to announce the addition of THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE cartoonist and TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN creator Shannon Wheeler to the lineup of guests for this year’s show, taking place the weekend of August 20-21, 2011.
EISNER AWARDS 2011: Shannon Wheeler nominated for Eisner Award
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BOOM! Studios is proud to announce that BOOM! Town’s debut publication I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER is nominated for a Best Humor Publication Eisner Award!
“I’m ecstatic, through the roof even, to have been able to work with Shannon Wheeler on I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER to showcase his gut-busting humor and hopefully bring another Eisner Award to his mantel!” says BOOM! Studios Marketing Director Chip Mosher. “I’ve known Shannon for over 20 years, and probably know his work better than almost anyone, and I always knew that people would respond to his non-TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN work if it was just given the right package. Well, we found the right package!”
Shannon Wheeler signs three book deal with BOOM! Studios
It’s no secret that BOOM! Studios and Too Much Coffee Man are chummy with one another, so it isn’t totally surprising to see word arrive from the company that Too Much Coffee Man is coming to BOOM! Town! in a three book deal.
“There are few names in the indie comix scene bigger than Shannon Wheeler, and I’m honored to be working with him again,” says BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon. “We’re excited to have Shannon’s signature creation, TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN, and his other projects join the “BOOM! Town” line and will be putting a lot of muscle into making these books something comics and humor fans will not want to miss!”
The Too Much Coffee Man three-book deal kicks off this fall with an all-new graphic novel, Grandpa Won’t Wake Up. Then, next winter fans will see Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island & Other Stories, and will conclude with the follow up to I Thought You Would Be Funnier – a collection of rejected New Yorker cartoons.
Review: I Thought You Would Be Funnier
Rarely do we get a chance to take a break from the four color world of the funny pages to take a look at the single panel art form found in the pages of newspapers and magazines – and the occasional web comic. BOOM! Studios is broadening their horizons with a a new imprint, and a cartoon collection from award winning Shannon Wheeler.
Boom! Town announces Wheeler collection
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BOOM! Town, a new imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced today I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER, a collection of rejected cartoons submitted to The New Yorker by cartoonist Shannon Wheeler.
“This is some of the best work I’ve ever done,†says Wheeler.
Please note, Wheeler has also had many cartoons accepted by The New Yorker.
I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER comes in a 8.75†x 8.75†softcover format, priced at $19.99. The Diamond Code for this item is FEB100763.
SDCC’09: Major Spoilers Podcast spawns Comic-Con panel
For the last two months I’ve been trying to nail Boom! Studios’ Chip Mosher down to get Shannon Wheeler back on the Major Spoilers Podcast to record the next installment of Comic Book Marketing 101. Chip was a little cryptic in his replies, and asked a time or two if I was going to be at the San Diego Comic Con this year, and now I know why. Check out this panel scheduled for Thursday, July 23rd:
12:30-1:30 Indie Comics Marketing 101- Too Much Coffee Man’s Shannon Wheeler has gone from minicomics to self-publishing to Dark Horse and now to The New Yorker. Heidi MacDonald runs the taste-making comic industry must-read blog The Beat for Publisher’s Weekly. Marketing director Chip Mosher is part of the team that has helped rocket BOOM! into the Top 10. All of them know a thing or two about marketing indie comics, and they join forces on this wide-ranging panel where they reveal their secrets! Moderated by former manager of development and content at MySpace and architect of MySpace Comic Books, Sam Humphries. Room 4
Yup, Mosher confirmed that this panel developed thanks to the podcast. If you want to get a hint of what everyone will discuss at the panel, be sure to listen to the episode. if you are an indie comic creator, and want to figure out ways you can promote yourself more, then you REALLY need to go to this panel.
And yes, we are still working on other creators and guests for the next installment of that particular topic – now if only Scott Kurtz will return my e-mails.
Robotika Back in Previews
With the new changes in Diamond’s minimum order amounts, small publishers and indipendent creators need up their marketing tactics if they want their titles to succeed. Alex Sheikman has either read my musings on the subject, or really listened to what Chip Mosher and Shannon Wheeler had to say on the recent Marketing 101 podcast, as he took those messages to heart and contacted us about his Atomika series.
To relaunch the series, Archaia is printing a double size issue of 64 pages containing the first issue of “For A Few Rubles More”, published back in 2008, and 32 new pages of story and art.
As always, Major Spoilers is here to promote the industry and its creators no matter how large or small the company.