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Monday, December 28, 2009

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."

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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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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!



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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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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!


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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Monday, December 14, 2009

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

and

(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!



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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Monday, December 07, 2009

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!



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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