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Too Much Coffee Man #4
How To Be Happy
Too Much Coffee Man has been percolating in the comics underground for years now, and like everything else that was once "alternative," he's sold out, been used by the man (as an advertising tool for Hewlitt Packard and Converse, among others), and is now middle-aged, depressed, broke, and cynical. Who better to write a book, then, called How to be Happy? Combining his signature formula of hilarious art, absurd but insightful observations, and bold humor, with his quickly deteriorating hope for humanity, Wheeler has crafted a comics collection custom made for the disaffected and disenfranchised.
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 20, 2005
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March 27, 2011
1. Don't be an idiot like I was and put off reading Wheeler's stuff. I stupidly saw the title of his most well known stuff a few years ago - Too Much Coffee Man, and was still smarting from dorky coffee cliche's I heard while working at a coffee shop in previous years, so I skipped over his stuff. STUPID ME!!! He's on my side as evidenced by, all of his work, and one strip in particular in this book.
And now I'd like to tell you something incredibly perceptive about his work, maybe note something about "line quality" (I think I remember Art Speigelman saying something about line quality once, so imagine that it's important)but let's face it, I know next to nothing about what makes one comic good and another not, I just know that Wheeler's stuff is pretty great. I won't do my usual list of "I like page blah, blah and yadda, yadda" but on the off chance that you've stayed with me on this review and you've also read How To Be Happy, I'd like someone else to confirm for me how great/sad the dandelion strip was.
2. I'd like some credit here because my BFF http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/26...
recently brought it to my attention that in direct contrast to my everyday personality I tend to become more than a little "tongue tied" around people that I admire BUT I admire Shannon Wheeler buckets and buckets full and when I recently had the pleasure of kind-of-sort-of meeting him (really just getting a signature on a tiny little, totally great comic). I did NOT, I repeat I did NOT fill my mouth with cotton and mumble about socks or some other such nonsense that I might normally do.
3. I like the number 3.
And now I'd like to tell you something incredibly perceptive about his work, maybe note something about "line quality" (I think I remember Art Speigelman saying something about line quality once, so imagine that it's important)but let's face it, I know next to nothing about what makes one comic good and another not, I just know that Wheeler's stuff is pretty great. I won't do my usual list of "I like page blah, blah and yadda, yadda" but on the off chance that you've stayed with me on this review and you've also read How To Be Happy, I'd like someone else to confirm for me how great/sad the dandelion strip was.
2. I'd like some credit here because my BFF http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/26...
recently brought it to my attention that in direct contrast to my everyday personality I tend to become more than a little "tongue tied" around people that I admire BUT I admire Shannon Wheeler buckets and buckets full and when I recently had the pleasure of kind-of-sort-of meeting him (really just getting a signature on a tiny little, totally great comic). I did NOT, I repeat I did NOT fill my mouth with cotton and mumble about socks or some other such nonsense that I might normally do.
3. I like the number 3.
October 28, 2019
Funny, ironic, and cynical take on the woes of modern life. Plenty of laughs for anyone with a sense of humor.
February 25, 2024
I flicked through the first 15 or so comics and didn’t even smirk once.
January 3, 2010
This was a fun book, with many a comic that I didn't catch on original print. I must still admit, I am more a fan of Shannon Wheeler's series actually titled "How To Be Happy," which several months ago disappeared from a local publication which I barely have reason to open anymore (it's called the Eugene Weekly; other than Red Meat, it kind of sucks now), but I admit each page was amusing.
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