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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Minions #227 - Vacations of the Rich and Famous

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 pool piranha 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!

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Greetings, Weekenders and Summer People!


Yeah, one rental car, one-missed-TV show, one graduation, many hundreds of road miles, one traffic-accident, and one penthouse suite later, we're home.  Unfortunately, seems like at least one minion went AWOL while we were gone, and of course, you know who it had to be: that rascal Number Two!

 Okay, it's a rare day I get to take the Minions outdoors for shooting the Minions, and this was a first: Minions and water.  Fun!

Running late, so I'll cut it short.  See you next week!

            - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #178 - Cats Cradle

Click Cartoons to Shrink World and Make Cartoons Look Larger. (And here you thought it worked the other way round!)
Stand by, following the usual slacking for a goof-off 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 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!

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Greetings, Hangers Out-to-dry!

We're headed down to California and Comicon, and so Minions at Work will be on auto-pilot for the next couple weeks. Cartoons are still being posted, but I may not be around to post reminders.

By the way, I'm thinking about working up a "Minions at Work" card game, just as a lark. It would be a fast, fun, party game, with lots of yelling, role-playing, and foolishness, and naturally it would features all your regular characters here at Minions at Work.

Would anyone be interested in seeing this? Based on what I'm seeing so far, I should be able to offer these through an on-line these through an on-line print-on-demand company I've found (like Cafe Press, except for games instead of tee-shirts) for somewhere in the $10-12 range. A bit steep for a card-game maybe, but I won't offer it up unless I think you'll get $12 worth of fun out of it.

I'm going down to Gamecon in LA later this year. Maybe we can have something ready for testing by then.

-GameMinionMaster Steve

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Minions #123 - Pengions

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Your visit is important to us. Please hand your wallet to the nearest Minion and stare mindlessly at the screen for a back-from-Vacation message from your Minon Master, following the usual commercial interruptions.

Minions at work is inadequately supported by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. 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 gift:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where the beatings will continue until all customers are satisfied!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)

Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)

*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)


Greetings, Flightless-ones!

Yes, I'm officially back, and so are the Minions.

It was a good trip, if tiring. I'm really having doubts about going back to Comicon unless I have a specific business reason to do so. It's a great place to go as a fan to see stuff, and it's great place for the Big Guys to go to promote something, but for the middle-to-little guys to promote, or especially to do business, it's just too big, loud, and distracting. There are other, more effective ways of getting things done.

So anyway, I've seen the Legion of Doom back into their holes to hatch some new evil schemes. I notice we didn't get a lot of comments on the Overlords at Work cartoons. Does that mean you didn't like them? If so, was it that you didn't like my jokes, or the repeated board-room layouts for a month, or that you just didn't like the Overlords at all?

Let me know. We aim to please.

A reminder. We need input!

First of all, we need a number for our new Minion, seen manning the dart-board in this recent cartoon.

Also, No. 1 needs letters with your "questions for Minions" to be answered in a future video. Surely there's something you want to know about being a Minion, life in the Lair, the forces of evil, or No. 1's early Oscar picks.

Obey your Minion-master, fire up your email and get to it!

- See you next week, Steve

Minons #117 - Bad Trip

PLEASE READ ON AFTER THIS WEEK'S CARTOON AND COMMERCIAL FLIBBER-GIBBER FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE NEAR-FUTURE OF MINIONS AT WORK!


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Your visit is important to us. Please hand your wallet to the nearest Minion and stare mindlessly at the screen for a message from your Minon Master, following the usual commercial interruptions.

Minions at work is inadequately supported by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. 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 gift:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where the beatings will continue until all customers are satisfied!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)

Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)

*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)


Greetings, Gas Guzzlers!

Yes, it's true, the Minions are going on vacation. Not just Number 2. ALL of them. Yup, you won't see a new cartoon with a Minion in it for the next FIVE WEEKS!

But never fear. I wouldn't leave you without cartoons. Oh, no! Because while the Minions are all going on vacation, the Overlords are hard at work. In fact, Doctor Coldblood has called together all the Overlords for their annual convention of the...

Yes, the greatest Masters of Evil in all the world, Doctor Coldblood, Cap'n Rehab, Doctor Funkystein, General Zed, and Captain Hardluck have united to doom us all, if they can figure out a way to agree on anything!

So tune in all through July (and a little of August) for your weekly installment of Overlords at Work!

And then in five weeks, the Minions will be back, tanned, rested, and ready to goof off at the earliest opportunity!

Hey look at us! (Or our book covers anyway.)

I just put together a little mosaic of images of book covers and posted it on my regular blog. See it here. These are MOST of the books in which my wife Chris or I (or both of us) have appeared. It's pretty nifty to see these all at a glance. Check it out, and see what we do the rest of the week!

A reminder. We need input!

First of all, we need a number for our new Minion, seen manning the dart-board in this recent cartoon.

Also, when he returns, No. 1 needs letters with your "questions for Minions" to be answered in a future video. Surely there's something you want to know about being a Minion, life in the Lair, the forces of evil, or No. 1's early Oscar picks.

Obey your Minion-master, fire up your email and get to it!

- See you next week,

Steve

Minions #88 - Relative Beauty

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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual commercial misfire...

While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)

Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)

*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)

A rambling greeting from your rambling leader:

Greetings, fellow-travelers,




Do me a favor! Take a moment to click on the Web Comic List icon at the top of our sidebar, create a log-on, and choose "Minions at Work" as one of your favorite web comics! If you have a mind, you can also leave a comment while you're there. Doing so will push us up their popularity list, and hopefully bring more people to check out our site. It just takes a couple minutes, so give it a try (and maybe find some other cool web comics while you're at it).

It's another one of those weeks, where I wonder if y'all will be laughing or just scratching your heads. I thought it was funny, but I'm strange. Just in case, I've whipped up a little bonus content for you, another of our famous parody Minions magazine covers. Click on the small picture for a larger version, and enjoy. (I've got to print some of these out as mini-magazines and start using them as props for future cartoons.)

To give you some background on this week's cartoon, let me just say that I live at the beach. A really beautiful beach, in my opinion, on the Oregon coast, and having lived her for many years now I just can't imagine living anywhere else. Well, at least anywhere far from waves, sand, trees, and mountains.

Yet I do leave here sometimes. I like to travel, almost as much as I like coming home. And as I've driven across the country, I've seen many beautiful things. But I've also been many places so ugly, so unplesant, that, if they were a Wookie, you'd shave their butts and make them walk backwards.

These are the kinds of places that I can't drive through fast enough, that I can't imagine voluntarily stopping at, and God-help-me if there isn't usually somebody who apparently choses to live there!

Why?

I mean, it isn't as though there aren't plenty of better places to live, often within a few hours drive. It isn't as though there are great jobs in these places. Often I wonder what people there do at all, but when the economic base is apparent, it usually has to do with A: known carcinogens, B: horrible working conditions, C: high worker mortality, and D: low pay.

In other words, it's pretty much like being a Minion.

Is it just momentum? Are these people simply to ignorant that there's life beyond the radioactive fish-mine or the lead-paint tasting industry? No, they must see something wonderful about where they live and work. I can only figure that, as bad as their place is, they know somewhere even worse!

God help us all.

See you next week, where-ever you live,

-Steve

Minions #72 - Down Time

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Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.

Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3

Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)

Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)

*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)

A ship-wide announcement from your Minion Cruise Director:

Greetings, Relaxibots!


"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. Speaking of Vacations, in a couple of days we're off to California and the San Diego Comicon, and running our evil schemes by remote-control, so forgive any irregularities. If we get time, we'll post some pictures and reports from the field.

Until then, we did have visitors at the Minions HQ this weekend. It was my birthday Saturday, and we had friends come from near and far for a barbecue. I had a great time, but somehow forgot to take any pictures. Later on, however, our friends Rob Vagle and Ximena Clearley came in and had their pictures taken with some resident celebrities. By which, I of course don't mean Chris and I.



Actually, Rob and Ximena are engaged, and they first hooked up a few years back helping us hang sheet-rock at what is now the Minions studio, so this is a very cool thing.

While we were sitting around talking, they were witness to the creation of the Next Minion. No, you can't see them. The next Minion doesn't have a name yet. So (this was my friend Sean Prescott's idea) we're going to have a poll that lets YOU name the Minion! Details after I get back from my trip.

Also, Sean and I are in the early stages of cooking up some new interactive Minions madness, and we need your help for that as well. Got a question for one of our characters? Send it to them care of me at j-steven-york@sff.net.

Anyway, off to San Diego. Back as we can be next week.

- Steve

Minions #38 - Interstate Irony

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Today's Panel: Okay, once more to the interstate. I know, I know, but this is probably my favorite of the series...

Given the weather here on the Oregon coast, and heavy book deadlines, this is probably the last outdoors Minions shoot you'll see until spring. Too bad, because I've got one all lined up that requires a nice day on the beach.