Minions #201 - This and the Christmas Tree Too!

Stand by, following the usual cast offs for a big dump from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the space maggots just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Returnable Gifts!


Hope you're having a good, flu-free, bomb-free, blizzard-free holiday so far.  Running a little late this week, so I'll keep it short.  See you next time!

                                    - Mistletoe Minion Master Steve

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Minions #199/200 - Caught in the Act/Strange Change

Happy Saturnalia Everybody!

(Also including any other holidays hanging around to bask in its cool)

Of course Saturnalia is the primary holiday this time of year!  

Where else would the phrase "ring in the New Year" have come from?

Click on cartoons for much biggerness!

Stand by, following the usual double-dealing for a bitter betrayal by your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the atomic blood robots just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings of whatever pleases you, Heathens, Hanukkah Hailers, and Holy Rollers!

There, now that I've ignited a holy war (I told you we were evil!), on to other business.  Yes, I'm late this week.  It's the Holidays (several of them), so shoot me (and I will claw my way from the grave, more powerful than you can imagine, thirsting for revenge and the cool, refreshing taste of Diet Pepsi!).

But since I was late, I figured I'd get that whole, annoying "200" thing out of the way and just give the the dubious present of a double-feature this week!  Like I said, I haven't come up with anything worthy of our "second century," so I'm just going to cruise past and celebrate later (or possibly wait for #250) to try and pull off something cool.  Better that than interrupt the flow of the site or rush something half-assed out the door that isn't worth the trouble.

Hey, if you (or anyone you know) has any interest in writing, you might enjoy a new site we launched in our little blog-empire this week.  It's the official blog of Sydney T. Cat, the world's worst literary agent (because she's a CAT!).  Come on over and see how  Sydney's "help" shreds writer's work and their careers.  You'll laugh a little, and you might just learn something.  Please pass it on.  Find it at:
http://badagentsydney.blogspot.com/


                                    See you guys next week,
                                    - Minion Master Steve


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Minions #198 - You Better Not Go Commando

Use the Magic of the Holidays to Enlarge Cartoons By Clicking On Them!

(The Magic of the Holidays actually has nothing do to with it, but it's always jumping in to take credit from others.  The Magic of the Holidays is kind of a Butt-munch.)

Stand by, following the usual binding waist-band for a wedgie from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the screaming plague-monkeys just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:

THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE

"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY

(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Christmas Sacks!

My friend, author Nathan Meyer (he must be my friend, as he keeps calling me "Big Guy," and I don't kill him for it) asked recently if Santa would be making an appearance in "Minions at Work."  I told him yes, as that had been my general plan, but as the days have passed, I still hadn't gotten around to shooting something new. 

Doing Christmas shoots is hard, as it requires me to find a BUNCH of props that I have boxed away somewhere and generally only use once a year.  I then have to build a generally one-of-a-kind set and for all that work, it's generally useless for anything else the rest of the year.  (In general, whenever I do a new set or setup, I have a gag in mind, but I also shoot a lot of "extras" from different angles, sometimes with different characters or props in the same set, kind of at random, in hopes that I can come up with a punchline for them at some later date.)

Anyway, last night I decided I couldn't wait any longer, and went back to a previous year's shoot (of Santa and Minion No. 1 drinking in a bar) to see if I could come up with a way to reuse any of it.  Lo, I thought of a pretty good punchline and put this week's cartoon together.

Satisfied, I came into to bed and turned on my Amazon Kindle (ebook reader) and watched as the new issue of "The New Yorker" came in over the wireless.  As usual, I went straight for the cartoons, and wouldn't you know it, there was a Santa cartoon with a punch-line somewhat similar to mine.  (Santa is talking the Mrs. Claus, rather than being in a bar, and while the setup is the same, the payoff is slightly different.)  I don't know what this proves, except that my humor has more class than I think, or maybe I should be sending my cartoons to The New Yorker, where I could actually make some money on them.

Anyway, we're staying home for the holidays this year, so your Minions at Work cartoons will come through live and uninterrupted.  Speaking of, you may have noticed that we're coming up on cartoon #200 and are wondering if we have anything special planned.  The answer is, no, really.  I was hoping to put together another YouTube video, but I just haven't had the time or proper inspiration.  I may come up with something a little extra for 200, but I don't know what yet, and it won't be a major deal.  Maybe I'll get something together for #250, or we'll just retroactively celebrate #200 a little late.

Hope you all have a happy holiday.  Personally, we're hoping for the Red Ryder Atomic Death Cannon with Gamma Overdrive, a brass-knuckle hand-grip, radar targeting, under barrel missile launcher, and a mind-control device in the stock.

I know, I know: "You'll put your continent out."  Trust me.  We've heard it all before.

- Steve

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Minions #197 - End Game

CLICK CARTOON TO ENLARGE!

Stand by, following the usual deadly blade for a throwing star of information from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the crab parasites just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Minions in Black!

Let me just say this up front.  I hate ninjas!  Seriously.  I hate 'em!

Oh, sure, they were amusing the first time or two I encountered them, but that was a long, long, time ago, and they quickly wore out their welcome with me.  I mean, for a while there in the 80s and 90s they were everywhere.  Every comic book.  Every movie.  Every TV show.  Every Christmas card.

GI Joe (one of them anyway, the most famous one) became a ninja.  Wolverine (a Canadian mutant with feral animal powers, what's more Ninja than that?) became a Ninja.  Batman became a ninja.  It's kind of a miracle that Superman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and the Martian Manhunter didn't become ninjas (or maybe I just missed that issue).  I think at some point back during the 80s, the Golden Girls and Joanie Loves Chachi were revealed as secret ninjas.  I think Stephen Hawking was a fricking ninja for a while there.  It was just the thing.

But when you strip away all the mystic mumbo-jumbo, the silly blood oaths and honor feuds, what is a ninja?  A sneaky guy in black jammies carrying too many sharp things.  They're all the same, and they bore the heck out of me.  They are the lowest common denominator of action characters, good and evil.  A pox on them all.

Worse, it hasn't gone away.  Even in this age of sparkly vampires and sexting, those stupid ninjas just won't go stop infesting our popular culture.  Every blasted video game in the planet has ninjas, or at least characters (often half-dressed young-women with unnaturally large breasts) running around fighting guys with ray guns and assault rifles using ninja swords, daggers, and throwing stars.  Even a recent anthology I was in, Swordplay, what's on the cover but a photograph of a danged ninja!  I will admit that I was mightily annoyed by the movie Ninja Assassin, until I learned it was a movie about killing ninjas.  Now I may have to Netflix that puppy.

So while you may seen ninjas in Minions at Work from time to time, don't be surprised if something happens to them.  Something bad.  Steve smash puny ninjas!

Hey, and a special thank-you out to Andrew Barnett who recently put a little something extra in our Christmas stocking to help keep the evil coming.  Thanks, Andrew!

See you guys next time,

                                                                                       - Steve
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Minions #196 - Watch What You Eat

Be sure to read today's Minion Master Message for a Minions Holiday Gift Guide!

Click cartoon to big-O-fy!

Stand by, following the usual frozen dinner for an evil-pop from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the radioactive carno-voles just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Stuffed Shirts!

Is that rumble in your stomach the swine flu you caught waiting in the "Black Friday" line outside Best Buy, or that last dressing-sandwich that just didn't quite smell right? We don't care, because we're evil!

Yes, it's that interminable wait between major holidays, the twilight zone of celebration, the void of despair between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Oh, sure, not all of you out there in the big, wide, diverse world that we live in, celebrate both (or either) of these holidays, or at least, don't celebrate them at the same time, but you can suffer along with the majority of us U.S. Americans, by playing along with our home game. Just stuff yourself to bursting with mashed potatoes and stand in line at Target (or local equivalent) for a month, and you'll get the gist of it.

To make things easier for you, here's our handy "Minions at Work" gift guide. Remember, when you purchase through our guide, you help keep the evil coming here at "Minions at Work!"

First of all, who couldn't use an "Evil is not my Natuture, Evil is Just my Day Job" tee-shirt, sweatshirt, hat, mug, mousepad, or other "Minions at Work" item to enliven their person, workplace, or unemployment line!  We've got teddy bears, calendars, clocks, and all sorts of insane stuff. You'll find all these, and more, at our "Minions at Work" Cafe Press store. Shop HERE!

If you need a more personal gift, or if you need party-wear for new year's eve, may we recommend our exclusive "I've Got Evil in my Pants" clothing and accessory line over at "Number Two's House of Naughty."

Is the writer on your list having agent trouble?  Trouble finding an agent?  Do they have an agent?  (Then they've probably got trouble?)  Help them put things in perspective, and show the agents of the world who's in charge, with a shirt, mug, or other item featuring the world's worst literary agent, Sydney T. Cat!  Yes, anybody can call themselves a literary agent, even a cat!  And if it isn't prohibited, it's required!

Each item feature's "Bad Agent Sydney's" business card with her likeness, and the slogan "Bad Agent!  No Catnip!"  Funny and tons of fun!  Find the Bad Agent line HERE.

You can also support Minions at Work by buying one of the many books written by or featuring work by your Minion Master J. Steven York, and Mrs. Minion Master Christina F. York (who also writes mystery under the name Christy Evans)!  We've made it easy for you by setting up our own Amazon Store featuring our work.  Find it HERE.

And if nothing else strikes your fancy, we've also set up another Amazon Store featuring a variety of Minion-recommended minion and overlord themed products, including DVDs, books, and more!  Find it HERE.

See!  That should take care of your entire list for you!  And all the proceeds go to US!  We're EVIL, darn it!

See you next week.

                                       - Minion Shopmaster Steve

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Minions #195 Strange Change

Click to enlarge!

Stand by, following the usual interminable queue for a rubber-stamp from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the winged-fire-ants just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Capitalistic Cast-offs!

Running a little late this week.  I'm busy shooting some more cartoons using the nifty green reactor-thing from last-week's cartoon, but I hate to run the same kind of scene two weeks in a row when I can help it.  So I dipped into my rapidly shrinking inventory of stand-by cartoons, and just as I was about to post, discovered I'd ALREADY used this particular cartoon back in October!  I hate it when that happens.

So, I had to go combing through my now-thousands of Minions stock-photos and outtakes to come up with some new cartoons.  So not only do I have something new (and topical) for you today, but I have a number of new inventory cartoons standing by as well.  Like they say, when life gives you lemons...  Well, actually, I don't care what they say.  I DON'T LIKE LEMONS!  I'm just evil that way.

See you guys next week.

- Minion Master Steve

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Minions #194 - Don't Need to Know

Stand by, following the usual unidentified hardware for an important safety advisory by your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the brain worms just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Unskilled and Underinformed Workers!

I plugged books last week (go back and look!) and I'm running late, so I'll keep this short and sweet: CARTOON!

See you next time,

- Minion Master Steve

Support starving Minions in Lair-land! Your donations support Minions at Work!

Minions #193 - Don't Quote me Bro!

Click, click, CLICK to make cartoons BIGGER


Stand by, following the usual hospitality for a tainted drink from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the reindeer of doom just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

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Greetings, "Honored" -uh- "Guests!"

It's been a while since I plugged books, and it's darned well time.  Somebody has to pay the bills around here.

First of all, I have a new anthology story out.  The anthology is called "The Trouble with Heroes," and my story is called "Boldy Reimagined."  I think serious fans of Battlestar Galactica or Joss Whedon may find this story, set in the writer's room of a new fantasy/sci-fi TV series, amusing.

Plus, hey, I hear there are actually other stories in there.  Stories by writers nearly as talented as my magnificently evil self.  That could be a considered a bonus.  You can find it in mass-market paperback in the sf/fantasy section of your favorite bookseller, or order it from Amazon HERE.

Mrs. Minion Master has been busy as well, in her alias of Christy Evans.  Her first mystery novel, "Sink Trap," featuring the crime-busting adventures of a female plumber, is out to rave reviews.  (Don't believe me?  Check the quote on her web-site, HERE.)

It's a fun read, and a great gift for anyone struggling with remodeling and home repairs.

Once again, it's out in mass-market paperback, and you can find a copy in all finer booksellers.  (If they don't have it in stock, they aren't really fine.)  Or, you can order it from Amazon.com right HERE.

Sink trap is only the first of a trilogy of books that are already complete.  The second installment, "Lead Pipe Cinch" is out in April of next year, and we just got our first look at the cover.  Here it is:

Like I said, this is out in April, so you can't buy it yet, but if you're really eager, it's available for pre-order on Amazon.  Go HERE.

So, go buy them one, or buy them all (or any of our other books) and help support Minions at Work.  Or, just send us the heck money (that's what the donation button below is for).  A dollar would be nice.  Or a trillion.  Or perhaps something in-between.  Your choice.  (The closer to a trillion, the better.)

See you guys next week.

- Your Shill-Master, Steve

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Minions #192 - Kennel Ration

Stand by, following the usual dog run for a yank on the collar from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the crab parasites just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

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Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Mongrels and Litter Runts!

We're finally getting back on track around here after a month of schedule disruptions, distractions, and sickness.  I'm back to building some new sets and trying out some new props and characters, back down in the bowels of the lair where we belong!  (All that fresh air we've been getting lately has just given me a kennel cough!)  Hopefully we'll be back here, on time, and with fresh material for a while!

By the way, our Latino minion has shown up a number of times, but I'm now giving him an official designation.  Henceforth he shall be known as "Numero Cinco," (Number Five) in honor of the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.  (Which in the U.S. is a celebration of Mexican pride, and in parts of Mexico, a celebration of the day the Mexicans kicked the French in the ass, which is pretty fun in itself.  And don't tell me they didn't have it coming!)

That's not to say that Cinco is necessarily Mexican.  It's typical gringo stupidity to assume that all Hispanics are Mexicans.  Cinco might be Cuban, or Columbian, or Salvadorian, or who-knows-what.  He might even be a red-white-and-blue Texas-born Tejano.  I'd like to keep that kind of vague, so he can stand in for all of them.

I know people have strong feelings about this, but most of the Latinos I know, citizens and visitors alike, are good, hard-working, family-folk.  Many of them take important-yet-dirty-jobs that the rest of us wouldn't touch, keep our nation running, and as thanks, often get nothing but grief and abuse.

In other words, they can proudly count themselves among the ranks of the Minions!  

Yeah, just like the rest of us.  Remember, we're all equals down here under the thumbs of our Overlord oppressors, so don't take it out on them.  Ain't no border wall high enough to keep The Man from shipping jobs out of the country.  Just saying.

See you guys next week

- Steve

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Minions #191 - REALLY Wrong Number!

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Stand by, following the usual buried punchline for a dirt clod from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may throw your representative into the Quicksand of Death just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Forgotten Friends!

I know, I know, the Minions and I have been missing in action.  I came off the two-week writer's workshop I was involved with tired and brain-dead, and immediately got a stomach flu that pretty well knocked me out for a week.  So now I'm terminally behind on EVERYTHING, and Minions just couldn't be at the top of the priority list (you should buy more tee-shirts!).  Sorry!

While I was moaning in my death-bed, a big box arrived for me from the nice folks at www.MattyCollector.com, Mattel's fan-direct collector web-site.  It was a couple days before I even had the strength to open it, but what was inside was a beautiful thing to behold, possibly the most wonderful 12" collectable action figure in history of the world, the 12" Ray Stantz Ghostbusters figure with incredibly detailed, light-up Proton Pack and spring-loaded ghost-trap!

Okay, maybe not the most wonderful, but certainly the most wonderful I've actually talked myself into ordering it.  Anything worthy of being called better, IMHO, has sold for well upwards of $100.  At $60, this wasn't cheap, but in the current market, that's a very good value for a figure of this type.

Mattel has done a fine job on this.  The uniform is very detailed and accurate to the film version with all the pockets and flaps represented, and tiny metal zipper pulls carefully sewn on.  They've engineered a whole new 12" body for this line, and it's got a really solid, sturdy, feel with lots of articulation, including unique joints that allow the shoulders to be hunched towards each other in the front (hug yourself, or assume a two-handed shooting stance to see what I'm talking about).  The Dan Ackroyd head sculpt is a little cartoonish and the weakest part of the figure, but it's not bad.

But what makes this figure attractive are the accessories, and they're wonderful.  Start with the Photon Pack and wand.  I watched the film again the other night, and every detail is there.  Every tiny wire, part, terminal, and warning label.  Even the transparent tip of the probe deploys and retracts like the ones in the movie.  It includes a light circuit that flashes four red LED lights on the "unlicensed nuclear accelerator," a bit of business seen in a couple scenes of the film.  There's also a detailed ghost-trap with operating, spring-loaded doors, and an attached, moving, foot-peddle.  Completing the figure are a walkie-talkie, night-vision goggles, and a switchable pair of ungloved hands for the figure.

Production on these is limited, and they're sold only through the www.MattyCollector.com site.  If Ray is sold out, there are also 6" figures, and a 12" Egon that's supposed to be available December 15th.  Get them while you can!

See you guys next week, hopefully back in the grove, and hopefully on-time.

-Retch-master Steve

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Minions #190 - Stupor Power

Stand by, following the usual music on hold for a quick transfer t0 your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the crab parasites just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!

We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:

THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE

"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY

(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, hold-overs!

This week has been busy with a writing workshop in town that I'm helping out with, the release of Mrs. Minion Master's new mystery "Sink Trap," and family-obligations, so I haven't shot anything new.  I'm digging pretty near the bottom of the inventory barrel here, so you'll have to take what you get.  Hopefully it's funny, but how the frick would I know?  I hope to be back in the Minion Studios last week shooting all new material.

- Minion Master Steve

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