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Friday, December 24, 2010

Have Yourself a Very Minion Christmas!

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Greetings, Unwanted Toys!


Given the fact that most people are going to be too busy to check in here anyway, I'm giving you this little Christmas card in lieu of an actual cartoon this week.  We'll be back after the holidays with all-new (well, mostly new) Minion action!  Our best wishes here for a safe and happy holiday, and great things for the coming new year!

                                   - Steve (and Chris, and gang)
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Minions #252 - You Better Watch the ____ Out!

Read our Holiday Message following the cartoon for a FREE GIFT to you!
Click to open-fire with Holiday Bigness!


Greetings, Regifted Followers and Future Returns!


Hey, happy holidays to all of your out there from us at the Lair!


We've got a couple of announcements to make:


First, I've just updated the site to a new "mobile aware" template, which those of you reading from a phone, pad, or other mobile device should get a cleaner, easier to navigate site.  Things should remain the same for our computer-users.  Please let us know how it's working for you.


And like I said, FREE GIFT!  Just pop on over to the Tsunami Ridge Publishing site to read a free holiday short-short-story, "A Holiday Explained," written by your Minion Master!  I think you'll find it every bit as warped and silly as your regular Minion entertainment, if not more so!  Find the story by clicking HERE.


And come on back here next week for the LAST MINIONS AT WORK OF THE YEAR!  (And you thought it would never end...)


                                                      - Your Merry Minion Master, Steve
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Minions #251 - Not Nice

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Greetings, Unwrapped Packages!

Sometimes you just ask yourself, "is this cartoon in bad taste?" And around here, the answer is, usually, "yes."

But sometimes, you ask yourself, is this cartoon is really bad taste?  That's what happened this week.  I mean, this idea has been floating around for a while, and given the Christmas theme, it was pretty much now or never.  But is joking about terrorism a good thing?

Well, to some extent, the entire concept of "Minions at Work" is based on terrorism.  It riffs on the tropes of media super-villians in comics, movies, cartoons, and TV, especially during the formative era when I was growing up mumble-mumble years ago.  And while we didn't have such a generic label for their activities, what were those guys (and gals) really, but terrorists?  Captain Nemo sinking American warships in the name of world peace?  Terrorist.  Goldfinger trying to nuke Ft. Knox?  Terrorist.  Doctor Doom blasting the Fantastic Four's skyscraper headquarters out of Manhattan and straight into space? (Yes, this happened, in the classic Fantastic Four, first series, #6!) Terrorism.

So what is Doctor Coldblood's long-delayed plan to inject greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and bring about global warming (besides misguided, redundant, and just too late) but terrorism?  Baron Badseed's plan to unleash flesh-eating plants on the world?  Terrorism?  Cap'n Rehab's scheme to operate a phony celebrity rehab clinic in a submarine so the paparazzi can't watch his "patients" partying like it's 1999?  That's...  Okay, that's just kind of brilliant.  But that's not my point.

There's plenty of real terrorism in the world these days.  According to news reports, a terrorism suspect was arrested recently after detonating a test bomb right here in my little town (a town so small that I should have HEARD any bomb that went off inside it, which makes me suspicious of either news reports, or the size of his bomb).  Just a few days ago there was a bombing attack in Stockholm, Sweden.  A fellow writer who I know casually passed through ground zero of the attack only minutes before the explosions went off.  Only chance saved his life.   Nobody is safe from terrorism.

But statistically, anyway, none of us is much in danger of it either.  Far more people are killed or harmed every year by car accidents, common diseases, and routine criminal violence, dangers that most of us face without blinking an eye.  While it's stupid not to take precautions, its also stupid to live our lives in fear, and the best cure for fear I know is laughter.  If we spent more time laughing at people who try to blow up their underwear, rather than trembling and taking naked pictures of one another in airports (naked pictures that apparently can't detect exploding underwear because they're, you know, naked!) our enemies might not have quite as much luck recruiting willing suicide bombers.  Because these people think they have nothing to lose, and they're wrong.  We can still take away their dignity.  We're not laughing with you, underwear guy, we're laughing at you.

So where are we with this week's cartoon?  We rarely brush so close to real terrorism, as opposed to the cartoonish kind, but we're not making a joke about bombs going off here.  We're laughing at them not going off, not even being made.  We're laughing at plots foiled.  We're laughing at a scenario so absurd I've got to laugh a little at anyone who would take offense. (Moslem extremists writing to a non-existent icon associated with a Christian holiday to ask for nuclear materials, and the order is intercepted by Minions of Evil who are doing seasonal temp work for a Santa of dubious morals?  Yeah, that could totally happen!)

So join me, in this holiday season, in laughing into the face of danger.  Pucker your lips, stick out your tongue, and give a big razzberry in the direction of people who would do the world pointless harm.  It won't help, but it might just make you feel better.

At least until you're killed in a car accident.

Seriously, wishing all my Minions readers peace, and failing that, safety in the year to come.

See you next week (I hope):


                                    - Minion Master Steve




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Monday, December 06, 2010

Minions #250 - Put a Lid on It

Click to Make Mountain out of Molehill

Greetings, Hazy Clouds!


Maybe you've noticed, or maybe you haven't, I've dropped the stock "support the site" boilerplate crap after each cartoon.  Let's face it, I'm not rich yet, so it's obviously not working.  I'm leaving our little "tip jar" donate button down there because, now and then it does work!

I know I keep saying we're going to get organized here at the lair, but this time we're really going to get organized here at the lair!  I've broken down and rented a storage unit so I can haul many of the props, vehicles, and figures I use to make my cartoons off and have space to sort them, eliminate duplicates, find stuff I lost about three years ago, and generally get a better handle on all the stuff I have.

In a perfect world, I'd have something like the "wall of labeled boxes" you see in the background on Mythbusters, but short of building myself a new building, I don't have anywhere with room of that kind of shelving.  But I do hope to approximate it as closely as I can; a box for everything, and everything in its box.

Yeah, like that's going to happen!

See you guys next week!

                                                                  - Minion Master Steve

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Minions #249 - Pumping Irony








Greetings, Saggy Biceps!


Yes, we're late this week.  Technical glitches.  Bad weather. Holidays.  The Forces of Good.  Bah!

                                                                 - Minion Master Steve
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Minions #248 - Penguin Priors

Click for Maximum Merry!

Greetings, Naughty and Naughtier!


Yup!  You asked for more evil-Santa, and you've got more evil-Santa!

Far as I know, this is also the first time I've ever used the Penguin in a strip without ANY of the other regular Minions or Overlords for backup.  It's certainly the first time I've used a "Penguin at Work" logo.  So mark that down, so you can tell your grandchildren you were there the day it happened!

Maybe you'll notice I'm NOT trying to sell you anything this week.  I mean, you can still hit the donate button if you want to, but I just thought I'd remind you that the holidays are coming, and with the economy being what it is, there's bound to be a toy-drive or food drive near you in need of help.  If you don't know what's up in your area, I'd recommend contacting your local food bank or fire department.  They'll probably be able to tell you what's up, where to donate, and how else you can help out in your town or city.

Just remember, there are plenty of kids right there in your town who won't see a holiday gift, and for whom a holiday is just another cold, hungry day.  I know it's tough all over, but if you can afford a small toy or a can of food, you'll make a difference!  Stick it to the Man by showing them that evil has a heart!  Crush their world-view with your out-of-character generosity, and turn their limited version of morality upside-down!  HAhahahaHAHAHAHAH!

                                                                                                  - Minion Master Steve




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Monday, November 15, 2010

Minions #247 - Dinosaur in a Net

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Stand by, following the usual anti-social-networking for a 140 characters-plus of bad 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 salty-pretzel-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 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, Silly Short-arms!


I'm just back from Orycon in Portland, Oregon.  Been a stressful weekend on the personal front (yes, your Minion Master does have a life beyond the lair and the furtherance of evil) so I'll keep this short.  Kinda like that T-rex's silly, little, arms.  AHHH!  LOOK OUT!  HE'S THROWING A MAIL-BOMB!

See you next week...

                                             - Steve
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Monday, November 08, 2010

Minions #246 - Pit Bull

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Stand by, following the usual late lunch for a major munching 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 tyrannoraptors 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! 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: 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, Overstocks and Factory Seconds!
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Back from our trip (barely), but Taking Monday Off

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I won't claim this as a new cartoon, but at least it's something!  Back from our Nevada trip, and behind on everything here, so after much foot dragging, I'm declaring a rare week-off here.  We'll be back next week with new munchy-crunchy Minionness!


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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Minion #245 - That's Why They Call it Coverage

Click Image to Deploy Airbag (and enlarge)




Stand by, following the usual bad policy for a damage rider 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 asphalt weevils 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.

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 on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.)

Greetings, Owners-of-a-life-insurance-policy-in-my-name-you-didn't-know-you-had!


I'm still very busy with my "HardBodies" (www.HardBaseOne.com) mega-science-fiction project this week, and I'm about to head out to Reno, NV for a little R&R, so once again I'll be short.

There, is that short enough for you?

I should be back next week in time for your regular Minion distraction of the week.  See you then!


                                                              - Mobile Minion Master Steve


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Monday, October 18, 2010

Minions #244 - White Out

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Stand by, following the usual double-sided copy for a low-toner message 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."

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, Peel and Stick Labels!


Yes, this week's cartoon is kinda silly.  Silly always makes me nervous, because you never know if silly will be the funniest cartoon ever, or land with a thud, or just unintentionally piss people off.  But sometimes you've got to chance it.

Busy week this week, with with getting our HardBodies shared-world military science-fiction project going.  But our teams are lined up, ideas are beginning to perk for the next three novels in the series.  I think this thing is just going to be more fun than anyone can stand.  We're going to have giant fighting robots, fast-moving vehicles, aliens, dinosaurs, submarines, sea-monsters, action, suspense, mystery, romance, intrigue, thrills and laughs.  Our goal is to make this series like Christmas morning for our fellow nerds, and I think we're on course to do just that!

The first ebooks won't start showing up until next year, but you can still bookmark our website and follow along as things develop.

See you guys next week.

-Steve
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Minions #243 - Christmas Comes Early & Angry



Stand by, following the usual investment opportunity for a retirement fund 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 Rabid Radioactive Day-traders 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 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.)


Greetings, Short-sells!


Hey, I just got a new Droid X phone, which in no way has anything to do with why this week's cartoon is going out a few hours late.  Okay, it does, but it's only one of a long list of distractions around here, which I won't bore you with.


And yes, if you're wondering, one of them (well down the list, I'll admit) is getting ComicPress figured out and configured so we can more the site to something more sophisticated and easy to navigate.  It's going slow, but it's going.  I'd rather get it done right than get it done soon, so be patient.


Does today's cartoon seem a bit out of season to you?  Well, I wondered about that, but it's clearly about Santa Claus in a bar BEFORE Christmas, so it could easily be several months before.  I've always wondered what Santa does in the off season, given that he's basically a super-villain anyway.  I mean, he has a hidden arctic lair, hoards of obedient minions who toil endlessly for him, super-powers, maintains surveillance of millions of people (well, kids) and as I've said before, he annually practices home-invasion on an epic and international scale.


Franky, I'm in awe of the guy.  What do you say?  Should we see more of Santa's evil?


See you guys next week!


                                                            - Pre-Holiday Minion Master Steve

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Monday, October 04, 2010

Minions #242 - The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Click to give yourself the gift of largeness! (that didn't sound right, did it?)




Stand by, following the usual suspicious package for a hasty-return 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 Giftoraptors 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 just click on our Donate button and send us cash!" 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 on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.)


Greetings, Gag Gifts!


Very busy again this week, so I'll be short.

There, was that short enough?

See you guys next week!

                              - Minion Master Steve
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Minions #241 - Unwritten Fine Print

Click Cartoon to Escape Smallness
Stand by, following the usual middling-management for a bonus blab 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 carnivorous rafter-monkeys just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."  (Management note: We were caring, just not about you, LONG before it became CBS policy.)

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!

 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 on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.)


Greetings, Nets over Gross!


Listen, I got nothing this week, so I'm just going to turn this over to Minion No. 1 while I go plan some world domination, or watch CSI on the DVR or something...

Minion No. 1: Um, wha--?  Okay.  Well.  Is this thing even on?


Hey, Minion No. 1 here.  I--  Listen, I got no script here or nothin'!  What the heck am I supposed to say?  Listen, I got nothin' either, so I'm just going to turn this over to Minion Number Two.


Minion Number Two: What?  Frickin' no, way!  I'm on my frickin' break!  Jeeze. Beauty of a buzz-kill.  Hey, Number 9.  Get the heck over here!


Minion Number 9: Hey, man.  What's happening?  Hey, you seen a giant robot around here?  We just had one run amok.  I hate it when they run amok.  It's a lot easier to catch them when they just mosey amok.  Stroll amok.  That's good too.  Hey, did you notice that somebody left the typograph running?  This is all going right out on the internet.  You knew that, right?  Hey, Penguin, get over here and keep an eye on this microphone while I go try and figure out how to turn it off.


Penguin: ---
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Minions #240 - Literally Goofing Off

Click for more Shark-bait!


Stand by, following the usual commercial splashing around for a dunking 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 Robot Pool Sharks 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! Just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a new Web Site 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).  We're everywhere! We're everywhere!


Greetings, Bubble Blowers!


Click for LONGER BREAK!
Okay, I freely admit that sometimes I do this thing in a hurry, when I'm not in the most alert state of mind.  Such was the case last night when I posted the current cartoon.  Actually, what I posted was not the cartoon at the top of the post, but the one at the left.  There's a critical, one-word difference between the two versions.

It was only when I looked at it again today that I noticed that the caption I'd posted was not the caption I'd intended.

Oh, well, the original version actually works as a joke, though it's rather more Zen than the low-brow humor I was going for, so I include it for your consideration.  Call it a two-fer.

Well, we made lots of progress this week on the Minions new and improved web site!

Okay, that's a lie, but we're EVIL, damn it!  Actually, we were distracted by a bunch of other things we're working on.  But realize, not only do I have two new web sites I'm setting up.  Not only do I have -- what? --about five existing ones that I pretend to keep up.  Not only am I on Facebook, and am I myself, plus two cats and a robot on Twitter (true!), but I'm actually expected to try and write something once in a while so they don't revoke my writer card.  (Writer Card!  Don't leave home without it!)  But hopefully we will be relocated soon.  I'll keep you posted.

See ya next week!

                                                                  - Minimally Multitasking Minion Master Steve

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Monday, September 13, 2010

Minions #239 - It's a Trap!

Important news this week!  
Be sure to read the message from your Minion Master 
after the post below!
Click in Cartoon to Enlarge ! (No, it's a trap!) Shut up!  (Make me!) If you insist...  (AAAAGH)


Stand by, following the usual dubious bait for a trap sprung 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 bottomless-pit-mosquitoes 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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Greetings, Trying-to-Chew-Your-Legs-Off Folks!


Hey, some exciting news this week.  Remember a while back when I talked about dumping blogger and moving the site to WordPress, and the ComicPress template that's actually designed from the ground up for web comics?  Well, we're doing it!  Not today, but hopefully soon, and I wanted to give you some advance notice and let you know what's going on.

First of all, I've bought a NEW domain name for the Minions.  www.TheMinionsAtWork.com

Why?  Well, the problem is, we get a LOT of traffic here from a cool web-site called TVTropes, which uses our cartoons as examples for some of its TV and movie tropes.  As such, it has a zillion direct links to individual cartoons on the current site.  If I move this site, or change the software (and therefore break all the links), I lose that traffic.  So my plan is to leave this domain and site as is, except there'll be a big notice and link at the top pointing folks to our NEW site.

The other problem is, we've got several hundred old cartoons posted here that will have to be moved into some kind of archive if I move the site.  So, if I leave this site in place, it will serve as an archive until all the old posts get moved (and as you'll see, remastered) as we go down the line.

My plan with the new site, when I get it started up, is to begin posting a new cartoon there on Mondays as always, followed by a couple of "remastered" classic Minions cartoons each week.  By remastered, it means I'll do a clean-up pass on each of our old cartoons.  Some (especially the very early ones) may be posted in higher resolution than you've seen them before.  Titles will be updated, some glitches and mistakes will be fixed, and other minor improvements made.

I hope that even long-time Minions fans will enjoy our "remastered" cartoons as well as our new ones.  Heck, looking back, I've forgotten I did a lot of these, so they'll probably look new to most of you as well!  Also, at two posts a weej, it means we'll have three posts a week on the new site for a couple YEARS without me needing to speed up production at all!  Since I'm going to be working harder to get new eyes on the site, hopefully will pay off for everyone!

Of course, there's a lot of work to be done.  I'm totally clueless with ComicPress, so it's going to be steep learning curve, and even once I do, I'll have to redesign a new site to fit the template.  If you'd like to follow my progress and make rude comments, visit me a www.TheMinionsAtWork.com any old time  (not much to see there yet, but maybe later this week).  As always, your support through donations and buying stuff through our CafePress and Amazon links is well appreciated!

Don't worry, I'll give you plenty of advance warning when we're moving!  Unless I learn a lot faster than I expect, I think it will be at least several weeks, and probably longer.  Stay tuned!

- Moving Minion Master Steve


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