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Monday, May 31, 2010

Minions #223 - Reporting In

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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 flying flesh-monkees 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, Downfallen and Putrid Projectiles!


Given the holidays, an unexpected video interview last night, and my general lack of inventory or good ideas, I decided to cut myself some slack and announce the post on Tuesday (it's actually being posted later Monday).  LIVE WITH IT!

Hey, for those of you into mystery or Twitter or mystery on Twitter, you might want to hear about something Mrs. Minion Master (in her secret identity as mystery writer Christy Evans) is up to.  She's created a Twitter feed for her mystery-solving plumber character, Georiana Neverall,  Georgiana will be taking a "Workation" road trip to Reno later this month with her best friend and her two dogs.  Forecasts are there will be a mystery to be solved along the way (and probably some drawings for free prizes to her followers as well).  You can follow the mystery when you follow her Twitter account, SinkTrap.  If you want to follow author Christy Evans as well, follow ChristyMystery.  It should be a lot of fun.  Pass this along to your family and friends who read mystery.

Oh, in case you noticed and didn't say so, there was an error in the numbering of last-week's post.  We had two #221s for a week there.  It's been fixed now.

See you guys next week!

                                                                         - Minion Master Steve

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Minions #222 - That's Gotta Hurt





Stand by, following the usual bad-prequel for a mop-up 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 Mutant Tea-baggers 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, Disturbances in the Force!


Yes, we're late this week.  Combination of looming deadlines, bad weather, computer issues, jury duty (yes, I, your evil Minion Master was on a criminal jury last week!) tripped me up.  I blame the Forces of Good.  Or possible Canada.


I don't like to revisit characters or themes so soon, but because it was what I had ready, and because our month layoff has left me with no inventory to fall back on, we're back to Doctor Head-in-a-jar this week.  Deal with it.


You can compensate by buying a shirt or mug from Doctor Head-in-a-jar's new Cafe Press Store!


Okay, your head is still spinning (no pun intended) about me, on a jury.  Okay, I'll make it worse.  I was the foreman!  Hey, I'm not a Minion Master for nothing here.  Don't worry.  It was a hung jury though, so feel confident that things went predictably, horribly wrong.  (Okay, seriously, I think a hung jury may have been the best outcome possible here.  But I HATE being serious around here, so back to foolishness!)


We'll be back next week.  Maybe even on time.  See you then!


                                           - Your "Hang-em" Minion Master, Steve


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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Minions #221 - In Hot Water

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Stand by, following the usual slow-boil for a deep-frying 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 flaming mutant crayfish 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, Left-overs!


Yea, I know.  Went to all that trouble to get Doctor Head-in-a-jar a new ride, and here I am ditching it after one cartoon.  Well, trust me, it will be back.  It's just, sometimes you come up with a joke, and you've got to run with it.

Hey, speaking of Doctor Head-in-a-Jar, I just opened a new Cafe Press store with the Doc's own line of tasteless merchandise.  So drop on over to "Doctor Head-in-a-Jar's Nogginarium" for a full line of Doctor Head-in-a-Jar shirts, mugs, and other items.  Find it at:
http://www.cafepress.com/DrHeadInAJar

Got to say, loving the new camera.  I knew wrestling with the tripod was slowing me down, but I really didn't realize how much flexibility it was costing me.  I can really get down inside the miniature sets now and play with foreground and background a lot more.  Of course, I'm going to have to learn to shoot all over again to take advantage of that, but that's just part of the fun.  Don't want things to get boring!

By the way, a new feature here is that now and again I'm going to share things I'm reading or DVDs I've viewed that I think you guys might enjoy.  Right now I'm reading "Holmes on the Range, " first of an ongoing mystery series by Steve Hockensmith.  Actually, it's a hybrid of mystery and western.  The premise is that a couple of cow-hands, brothers, stumble on the stories of Sherlock Holmes as they're being published in various magazines in the U.S.  The younger, literate brother, Big Red, reads them to his illiterate older brother Big Red, and it's Big Red who becomes obsessed with Holmes and the idea of becoming a detective himself.

As the book opens, the brothers have found a man crushed to a pulp by a cattle stampede, Big Red thinks there's foul-play, and the "game is afoot," or more accurately, "ahoof."  It's full of colorful, funny characters, and a completely unromanticized look at the old west full of more than you've ever wanted to know about cow-pies, screw-fly maggots, bad eats, outhouses, and other aspects of western life.  Hockensmith uses all these things both to comic effect, and as useful devices to serve his mystery (at one point the classic "locked room mystery" is replaced by a "locked outhouse mystery") plot.

If you like mystery, western, Sherlock Holmes, or just a fun funny read, I think you'll like this one.  (To be honest, I'm only about 3/4 of the way though, but I don't see it wandering off the trail this late in the round-up, and everyone I've talked to who has read this and other novels/stories in the series raves about them.  Give it a try!


- Your Minion Master, Steve

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Sunday, May 09, 2010

Minions #220 - Ancient Secret

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Stand by, following the usual toss-and-turn for a bad-dream 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, Pillow-cases and fitted sheets!


I'm getting back in the swing of things here, and loving the new camera.  It has image stabilization, which is a fancy way of saying I can now work without a tripod for most shots.  That lets me work faster, get more angles in a single shoot, and gives me a lot more flexibility in how I shoot.  Bottom-line: it rocks!

So, it may be subtle, but I hope Minions at Work will have a new and improved look in future installments.  I hope you enjoy!  (Of course, your enjoyment will only distract you from your eventual doom!  Muh-hah-ha!)

                                    - Minion Master Steve
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Monday, May 03, 2010

Minions #219 - Drinks Like a Fish

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 Stand by, following the usual double-shot for a bitter chaser 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, Empties and Dead Dogs!

Yes, I'm a little late.  Well, technically not.  It's still Monday.  But I try to get things up by early afternoon so I can post the notices on Facebook and Twitter during the day when most people seem to be around to get them.  Well, fail on that.  Notices will go out on Tuesday.

Anyway, we're back.  This is actually a totally new shoot.  This is a totally (well, except for the head and the jar) Doctor Head-in-a-jar.  And we've gotten a long-overdue camera upgrade too.

None of which makes me entirely happy with today's cartoon.  It was rushed.  It was a fairly complex setup, and Doctor's Head-in-a-jar's new ride is tougher to shoot than I expected.  It looks much better from some angles than others, and the pose necessary for the gag precluded those angles.  Given more time, I probably could have done it better, but sometimes it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be done.  This was one of those times.  We'll do better next time.

Anyhow, we're back, bigger and better than ever!  (Eventually.)

See you next week!

                                      - Minion Master Steve 
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