On Thursday, October 6th, local cartoonist Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus) will be at Antoinette Hatfield Hall at the Portland Center for Performing Arts to kick off One-One-One-One: One-Man Show of One-Hundred-and-One One-Panel Comics, a three-month exhibit of 101 rejected New Yorker cartoons. From 6pm - 9pm, the public is invited to join the artist for this First Thursday reception.
Wheeler has been widely known for his existentialist Too Much Coffee Man series of strips and comics, releasing the Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus last week. The Portland artist has been making waves recently, though, as a cartoonist for The New Yorker. His collection of rejected cartoons, I Thought You Would Be Funnier, received an Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication this year.
Located at 1111 SW Broadway, Hatfield Hall has been a popular location for comics art shows, most recently in April when the Stumptown Comics Festival presented a show of over forty different artists.
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September 2, 2011 (Portland, OR)
Press Release
Finally our great city produced a cartoonist with the creative chops to publish comics in The New Yorker magazine- Portland resident Shannon Wheeler. Creator of Too Much Coffee Man and the book I Thought You Would Be Funnier, Wheeler is partnering with Portland Center for the Performing Arts to showcase his original work drawn for The New Yorker. One-hundred-and-one original cartoons will be on display and for sale at reasonable Portland prices. Each week, Shannon submits dozens of cartoons just to sell one. This exhibition showcases the best of what The New Yorker passed over. Don’t be fooled- rejected cartoons are often the funniest. Gentle yet expressive line art. Wash that’s loose yet descriptive. Humor that is subtle but has a weight of a grand piano.
"Shannon is a longtime friend and partner-in-crime of Portland Center for the Performing Arts," says Robyn Williams, executive director of PCPA. “We are thrilled to be showcasing his original work from The New Yorker – it is witty, expressive and completely Portland.”
Wheeler is equally thrilled to be showcasing his work at the PCPA Gallery. “I’m so excited, I spilled my coffee,” said Wheeler.
Shannon Wheeler's One-One-One-One: One-Man Show of One-Hundred-and-One One-Panel Comics opens October 6th, 2011 at 6 p.m. with a special 1st Thursday reception at the PCPA Gallery. The exhibition runs through December 1st, 2011 at the PCPA Gallery, 1111 SW Broadway at Main St. (inside Antoinette Hatfield hall). This exhibit will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of 1st Thursday as well as Oregon Cultural Trust’s Oregon Days of Culture (October 1-8, 2011).
Shannon Wheeler
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. 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. Earlier this year, his first collection of rejects earned him the honored Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication.
Shannon’s publications include Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus (Dark Horse), Oil and Water - a graphic novel about the effects of the BP oil spill, (with Steve Duin, Fantagraphics), Grandpa Won’t Wake Up - two kids try to wake up their grandfather who is dead (with Simon Max Hill, BOOM!), and more. For more information about Shannon, please visit www.tmcm.com.
PCPA
Portland Center for the Performing Arts is the region’s premier performing arts venue management organization. PCPA manages the Keller Auditorium, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and the Antoinette Hatfield Hall, which houses the Winningstad and Newmark theatres and Brunish Hall. Portland Center for the Performing Arts operates under the guidance of the Metropolitan.
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