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Monday, April 26, 2010

Minions at Work #218 - Hot Zone

Click Photo to Enlarge - The Overlords say DO IT NOW!

 Stand by, following the usual poor planning for an even worse alternative 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 Giant 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.

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Greetings, Picnic Basket-cases!

Today's cartoon represents pretty much the last of our inventory worth mentioning, so I'd darned-well better get back to the business of evil (and the photographing thereof) this week! Our reorganization efforts here aren't nearly done, but I'm making progress (today's projects include setting up a new work-table, and hanging giant-spider-like storage bags from the studio-ceiling), but I've broken the log-jam things had turned into here and henceforth I'll be able to shoot and sort at the same time.


Mrs. Minion Master (AKA mystery-writer Christy Evans) is going to Virgina for the Malice Domestic mystery conference the latter-half of the week.  In theory, that should allow me more uninterrupted time to some shooting and sorting done (though I know from experience it rarely works that way).  We'll see.

I know it's not quite picnic-weather in much of the country (it's raining cats and dogs here at the lair today), but it's close enough to start thinking about it.  So I figured today's cartoon wasn't too premature.

Anyway, this is still posting later than I'd like today, so back to work.  See you guys back here at the lair next week!

                             - Minion Master Steve
 
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Minions #217 - Eating Problem

Click picture for extra Dino-damage!
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 Utahraptors 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, Dino-snacks!

I'm posting late on Monday this week, which is about as bad as posting on Tuesday, since most of you seem to pick this thing up from work (don't worry, we won't tell!).  Mrs. Minion Master had some health issues this week that have been a distraction, but she's on the mend and was able to sign her new mystery novel "Lead Pipe Cinch" at Murder by the Book bookstore in Portland, OR this weekend, so it's all good!

This also disrupted our reorganization a bit, though I spent some extra time on some custom projects you'll be seeing soon.  I'm really pleased at how "Doctor Head-in-a-jar's" new robot-body is turning out, and there's a bunch of new gear for our mad-science labs.

Hey, as always, evil isn't free!  Your store purchases, book purchases (though our links or in your local store), Amazon purchases (using our links) and donations help keep the lights on at the lair.  Don't make us come over there and TAKE your money!

Anyway, I won't delay this any longer.  See you guys next week!

- Muddled Minion Master Steve
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Minions #216 - Under Water, Over Sharing

Click on image to activate ENLARGE-O-RAY!

Stand by, following the usual TMI for a revealing 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."

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, Ghoul-friends!

It's an unusual Minions at Work that doesn't have No. 1 or Number 2 in it (unless it's an "Overlords at Work" instead).  It's even more unusual when it doesn't have any of the uniformed Minions in it.  In fact, this may be the first time it's happened.  But since the Penguin is an honorary Minion, I still consider this a "Minions at Work" cartoon, even though it focuses on an overlord (Cap'n Rehab).

This touches on the very essence of villainy.  What drives a person to shut themselves away from society in a secret-lair stocked with super-technological devices of doom, and begin plotting world domination?  Sometimes, it's just that unfaithful skank Skipper and your two-timing "friend" Dwaine.

The reorganization is going well, though there's still a long way to go.  This week I'll focus on clearing off the shooting area of the studio, so I can go back into production while I continue the sorting and clean-up.

I'm also working on new props for future cartoons.  I'm assembling medical props, gym props, and a nifty new "body" for Doctor Head-in-a-jar, all of which you'll likely be seeing in weeks to come.

Hey, and don't forget Mrs. Minion Master's new Georgiana Neverall, lady-plumber, mystery novel, just in stores (and on-line) from Berkley Prime Crime!  Buy it for two reasons: A: You'll thank me later, and B: you're indirectly supporting Minions at Work.

See you folks next week back here at the lair!

                    - Trophy-husband Steve

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Monday, April 05, 2010

Minions #215 - A Matter of Taste

 Click on cartoon for increased bigness!

Stand by, following the usual double-dip for a suspended sentence 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, Dino-treats!

Yes, this cartoon recycles an image (in higher resolution this time) of one of our very earliest cartoons.  #12 to be exact.   I don't apologize for it though.  First, it was a long time ago.  Second, I love this shot with the herd of hungry T-Rexes.  Third, that initial cartoon always bothered me.

I mean, what was going on there?  Was No. 1 rescuing the Newbie, or was he actually lowering him to be dinosaur food?  The latter just didn't seem in-character for No. 1, and the cartoon can be read either way.  So consider this cartoon to take place a fraction of a second later, settling the question once and for all.  No. 1 takes care of his Minion charges, even when (frequently) he's rescuing them from their own stupidity!

The great sort and reorganization continues over here.  I'm hoping to come back to the minions fully charged and ready to go.  I've found props, costumes and figures I'd forgotten I had.  Some of the bits and pieces I've located have also inspired me to create a few new props to use in future cartoons. For instance, I made some new chemistry equipment that will be showing up in mad-science labs in future cartoons, some free-weights to go with other sports and gym equipment I've long had but not assembled in one place, a lie-detector-type gizmo based on an existing generic "tech" prop, and an IV stand to go with the medical equipment I've managed to finally collect together in one box.

Doctor Head-in-a-Jar is also getting a major upgrade that I'll be finishing just as soon as the fricking weather clears up enough here for me to go out and do some spray painting.  (The weather here has been unseasonably awful.  I blame the Forces of Good.  Or possibly Canada, which scared much of winter into temporary retreat with their cursed Olympics.  Well, it's baaaaack!)

I've still got a few more weeks of cartoons before I have to go back into production.  I should be read, if not finished with the sorting.

Anyway, see you guys next week!

                                             - Minion Master Steve

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