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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Minions #158 - It's the Thought that Counts


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Stand by, following some sugar-frosted jibber-jabber, for a tasty treat from your Minion Master!

Your execution is important to us. To serve you better, your execution may be observed by a supervisor, who will step in to kick you if the corpse is still twitching.

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Greetings, Short Timers!

Yeah, we're a little late again this week. A few hours anyway. Lots of business stuff going on here that could lead to exciting mad-science related news.  

Or not. Because it might be secret. Nobody has said for sure yet.

Maybe by next week I'll be able to tell you if I can't tell you.

Also, we've been busy setting ourselves up on Facebook for promotional purposes. I'm hoping that it will also steer a little more traffic here. I've never properly promoted the site. Anyway, if you want to friend me, use the new Facebook badge in the sidebar, or search on "j-steven-york" and that should do the job I think.

I'll be posting weekly notices of the new cartoon there, so it's an alternative to the reminder list.

Anyway, keep those comments coming, and I'll see you next week.

- Your Under-overlord, Steve

Monday, March 23, 2009

Minions #156 - Mean Drunk, plus BONUS #157, Good View



Stand by, following some typical jibber-jabber for a last-minute reprieve from your Minion Master!

Your execution is important to us. To serve you better, your execution may be observed by a supervisor, who will step in to kick you if the corpse is still twitching.

KEEP AMERICA STRONG! SUPPORT "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY!

Click through any of our Amazon links here and make your purchases, or visit our new Lair Amazon gift shop at right for a selection of Lair-recommended items!

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!

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.)

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!


Greetings, Co-dependants!

Running a little late again this week. I was a little under the weather today. Something I ate. I think the Forces of Good may be poisoning my food again. But how can they possibly be getting into my impenetrable fortress lair undetected? I haven't got a clue. I wonder if the Minions can help. Let's see...

Nah, they got nothing.

Come to think of it, I was also (true story) bitten by a spider (somewhere between 8-11 times!) last Sunday that somehow found its way inside the sleeve of my jacket. Until now, I'd written it off as a coincidence. But it happened hours before I was to post my Monday cartoon, and then the internet went down!

No, there's a pattern here. The Forces of Good have fallen to using our own devious methods against us. That's not fair! Only we get to cheat!

Well, we're on a high state of alert here from now on. Orange. Puce. Plaid. I don't know. Whatever. Guess it's a good thing I called Number 13 in to taste my food for me. Isn't that right 13?

13?

13?

Sigh. Looks like we're going to need another 13.

- Your Minion Master with a bull's-eye on his back, Steve

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Minions #155 - Small Favors

Be sure to read this week's full post for a special Minion-related Evil Cat story!

To fully deploy humor, click on cartoons to enlarge

Stand by, following some typical jibber-jabber for a last-minute reprieve from your Minion Master!

Your execution is important to us. To serve you better, your execution may be observed by a supervisor, who will step in to kick you if the corpse is still twitching.

KEEP AMERICA STRONG! SUPPORT "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY!
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!

Later, we'll be adding a selection of Minion-recommended merchandise, but until then, use your imagination. Books, videos, electronics, games, maybe even ACTION FIGURES!

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.)

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!


Greetings, Under-employeds!

Yeah, we're a little late this week, in part because of some internet problems we had today. (Thank you Charter Communications, customer service motto: "may we have your ten-digit phone number before we transfer you to another continent where they'll also need your ten-digit phone number.") Maybe they're pissed off about last-week's jab at telephone support. Trust me, they've gotten their revenge.

But I also wanted to take the time to document and report today's...

EVIL CAT STORY

Our older cat, Oz, has developed a little ritual recently. Every night about midnight, if we're still sitting in the living room, there will be a clatter in the ceiling.

Back up. My office and studio is here in Hangar 18, converted from a semi-attached garage that overlaps slightly with the corner of our house. There's no direct connection (you walk out the back door of the house and through a sun-porch to the back door of Hanger 18).

There is one indirect connection though, if you're a cat. To the right of my desk, ten feet straight up a wall, there's a small triangular opening that leads into the attic of our house. Oz discovered this hole even before the office was finished, and after I got tired of claw marks on the wall, I built him a "cat ladder," a 2x4 covered with carpeting and studded with small platforms, to make it easier to get up and down.

So when we hear this overhead clatter in the living room, it's Oz climbing up the cat ladder and crossing through the attic over our heads. There's a rumble as he crosses the furnace ducts, then more noise as he runs through my wife's upstairs office, down the inside stairs, through the kitchen, around the corner, and into the living room. Part of the ritual is that, by the time Oz has hit the kitchen, he's yowling loudly, a special yowl that means to our other cat, Sydney, "it's time to come and play."

More recently, something new has been added to the ritual. Now when he comes to play, Oz usually brings a toy, some object that he's picked up in my office. Very often, this is action figure related, a loose item of clothing or a small accessory. The other night he dropped an old-WWI German helmet, the kind with a spike on top.

But last night was different. I heard him coming, and decided to go meet him and see what (if any) of my items he'd hijacked. Sure enough, he was carrying something in his mouth. He walked up to me, dropped it at my feet, and looked up expectantly, waiting for me to inspect his prize. Here's what I saw when I looked down:



To be fair, he didn't make the sign himself. It's a left-over prop from this 2007 Minions at Work cartoon.

That said, I have no doubt at all that it was intentional.

It was also a LIE! Of course Oz makes the evil plans! You don't believe me? Here's photographic evidence!


Even Minion Masters like me, we have our own evil-overlords! And you think you have it bad? The claws! The claws!



- Your Under-overlord, Steve

Monday, March 09, 2009

Minions #154 - Unsupported



To fully deploy humor, click on cartoons to enlarge

Stand by, following some typical jibber-jabber for a time-out from your Minion Master!

Your call is important to us. Please listen to the voices in your head while we transfer your call to Mumbai
NEW! SUPPORT "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY!
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!

Later, we'll be adding a selection of Minion-recommended merchandise, but until then, use your imagination. Books, videos, electronics, games, maybe even ACTION FIGURES!

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.)

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!


Greetings, Hold-overs!

Let's face it. If you've ever called a "customer support" line, you know they're all run by the Forces of Evil.

If nothing else, you know that in this day of iPods, a technology company shouldn't have music-on-hold that sounds like it's being played from a hand-wound Victrola through two tin-cans and some string.

They've got some great music in India. While you've got half the population at slave-wages to read scripts about how the problem with your crap product is actually the fault of somebody else's crap product, maybe you could spend an extra dollar-a-day and pay somebody to pick up a sitar or something...

Meanwhile, keep your customer complaints -- uh -- comments coming. We love to hear from you!

- Your Outsource Minion Master, Steve

Monday, March 02, 2009

Minions #153 - Freshly Cribbed


In case of emergency, click on cartoons to enlarge

Stand by, following some typical jibber-jabber for a time-out from your Minion Master!

Your visit is important to us. Please ignore the mind-controlling nan0-spiders crawling up the back of your neck.

NEW! SUPPORT "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY!
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!

Later, we'll be adding a selection of Minion-recommended merchandise, but until then, use your imagination. Books, videos, electronics, games, maybe even ACTION FIGURES!

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.)

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!)

Greetings, InterToddlers!

Here we are again.

Like you didn't see that coming.

Been a while since we had a cartoon with a group of Minions hanging around the storage room shooting the bull. I like those, so here's another one.

Remember to keep those comments coming! Considering all the money we don't make off this site, it's usually the only reward we get! Also, they taste pretty good on crackers with a little Velveeta cheese.

Hungry now.

See you here at the Lair, same time next week!

- Your Sweet Minion Master, Steve