Too Much Coffee Man

Shannon Wheeler’s Too Much Coffee Man ran for eight issues from 1993 to 2000 under Adhesive Comics, chronicling the caffeinated, existential misadventures of its perpetually wired, trench-coated title character. Wheeler wrote and drew the entire series, using the strip’s deadpan absurdity and sharp, low-key satire to skewer modern anxiety, consumer culture, and the art of procrastination. A defining work of 1990s alternative/indie comics, it resonated with readers who saw their own jittery, overthinking selves in its pages.