Minions #216 - Under Water, Over Sharing

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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.

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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!

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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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Minions #215 - A Matter of Taste

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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!

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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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Minions #214 - Egged On

Be sure to read past the jump in today's post for an important announcement about Mrs. Minion Master's new mystery novel (say that three times fast!), hitting stores in just a few days!

 Click Image to Fluff into a Big, Evil, Omelet of a Cartoon!

Stand by, following the usual Egg McMuffin for a Sunny Side 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 face-huggers 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, Rotten Eggs!

We're all excited down here at the lair, as another link in our Master Plan for World Domination (MPWD) is completed.  Mrs. Minion Master's second mystery novel in her series about a crime-busting lady-plumber will be appearing in stores and on Amazon in just a few days (April 6th).  Here it is:
You can help support the forces of evil here either by buying a copy for yourself (it's Minion Master approved!) or by passing along a recommendation or link to your friends who like mystery, plumbing, adorable dogs (yet another link in the MPWD), or you otherwise think might enjoy this.  Links on your blogs or web sites are also appreciated.

You'll note that Mrs. Minion Master's real name is not on the book.  They're written under the name "Christy Evans."  This is what they, in the writing business, call a "pseudonym," but it is what we call in the Evil World Domination business an "alias."

As I said, this is the second book in the series.  If you'd like to start at the beginning, you can still get the first book in the series, "Sink Trap."  Here it is:


If you want to find out more, visit the Christy Evans web page HERE

Meanwhile, the great Minions sort and clean-up continues here.  I'm now into sorting things I didn't know I had, things I probably haven't seen for years (but many of which you'll be seeing used in upcoming cartoons.  I've still got several more weeks of inventory cartoons, though I could probably get cleaned up enough to start shooting again with a hour or so's work.  We'll see what goodies I discover in sorting, and how inspired I get to use them.

See you guys next week!

                                                - Mysterious Minion Master Steve

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Minions #213 - Heath Care Debate

Stand by, following the usual voice-vote for a filibuster 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 radioactive zombie Congressional pages 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, Pre-existing Conditions!

Before we get started, I just want to say that "Radioactive Zombie Congressional Pages" would be a great name for a comic book/multimedia franchise!  Just imagine the toy line!

Anyway, it's kind of an accident, but we actually have something timely and topical to post this week, what with the passage of the health-care reform this week.  We're kind of jazzed about it!  Why not?  I mean, it's either a ground-breaking boon that will enhance the lives of all Americans, including us, or it's an evil scheme that will bring the world down around our ears (or possibly both)!  Anyhow, from our perspective, we're just not seeing a down-side here.  Win, win!

Yes, we're running late again, and I've got no excuse, since this cartoon was actually done a week ago.  Let's just say that there are a lot of distractions around the lair right now, and without the mandatory reminder of a "oh, no, I have to post something!" photo-shoot, it just slipped my mind.

The reorganization of Minions Studios is going well, though the job still looks never-ending at this point.  But already, things are more sorted and organized than they've been in years.  Maybe I'll post some pictures at some point.  Anyway, back to work.  See you guys next week!

                     - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #212 - Bone Tired

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Stand by, following the usual T-Boning for a chew toy from 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 albino dance-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:
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, Numb-skulls!

It's not yet spring here at the old Lair, but it's close enough that I'm thinking about it.  One job that's on my list is cleaning up the chaos that is Minions Studios, and that's really difficult to do while keeping it accessible for shooting.  I really need some down-time to sort and repack the zillions of figures, props, costumes, set pieces, backdrops, vehicles I need to shoot my photo-cartoons.

I made some progress in dealing with that yesterday by spending several hours digging through file photos (the archives are now up to 6.53Gig of pictures!) and brainstorming new cartoons using old photos.  I was able to come up with 8 new cartoons for the inventory, thus giving me some slack to work here without being concerned that I'll get in the way of the next shooting.

What does it mean when I use old shots?  Is it just an old cartoon with a new caption?  Not exactly.  Whenever I do a shoot, I usually take six to a dozen shots, often changing framing, camera angle, and other details.  Sometimes I even do intentional "outtake" shots sticking in different combinations of characters and poses in hopes I'll come up with a use for them later.

When I go on one of these "inventory hunts" I'll go back to the raw, unedited images and brainstorm.  If I grab the exact same picture I've used before (it does happen) it's simply that it was the best shot for the punchline I've come up with.  Even then, I may crop or edit the photo so that it looks much different than the original use.

Okay, it may be recycling, but some of these were shot so long ago that even I've forgotten about them!  Hopefully they'll be fresh to many of you as well!

Rob Vagle, wife Ximena Clearley,
and Assorted Minions

Hey, speaking of days-gone-by, our old pal and long-time Minion-supporter, writer Rob Vagle was in town today for lunch, and what should be we wearing but his "Evil is Just My Day Job" tee shirt.  I've known Rob since my days living in Eugene, Oregon.  He's since moved to Arizona, so it's a treat to see him, even for a little while  (Actually, it was a big lunch with a lot of people, so Mrs. Minion Master got a lot more time to talk with him than I did.  Still waiting for the gossip.)

Here's a picture of he and his wife (also a big supporter over the years) taken a few years back before they moved to Arizona.  Hey, we miss you guys!

Well, that's about it for this week.  Off to do my spring-cleaning.  But we'll be right back here next week with a new (to you) cartoon!  Thanks to everybody for your support and comments!

                                                            - Minion Master, Steve

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Minions #211 - Head of his Class

Click Image for Bigness!

Stand by, following the usual foul flood for an info-dump 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, Underachievers!

Some weeks I have a joke in search of a set, but other times, I have a set in search of a joke.  That's what happened this week, when I was inspired to try and put some kind of sewer together.  Trouble it, when you don't have anything to go with it, it's a heck of a lot easier to throw away a joke with no set than a set with no joke.  So, you're getting what I could come up with this week.  Funny?  How do I know?  I'm desperate over here...

See you guys next week!

                     =Minion Master Steve

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Minions #210 - Going Long

 Click on cartoon to mag-Mag-MAGNIFY!

Stand by, following the usual commercial break for a recall-notice 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 flying death-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 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, Goof-offs!

Don't worry.  I'm out of Ancient Minion cartoons for a while.  Which means (oh, crap!) I've got to go come up with something new for next week.  Back to the old studio I guess...

Not feeling talkative, so I'll just post this baby and see what happens. 

If YOU'RE feeling talkative, though, your comments, suggestions, and questions are always appreciated (in an evil, scheming sort of way) here at the Lair.  Take a minute to drop us a note.

- Minion Master Steve

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Minions #209 - Mathematically Challenged.

 Click image to make larger!

(But not infinitely large.)

Stand by, following the usual unending commercial announcement for a mathematical point 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!

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Greetings, Random Numbers!

You'll probably hate today's comic, because I love it.  It makes me giggle again and again.  I just love a cartoon that's got six-kinds-of-wrong in it.  Here's an earlier example of this kind of humor.  I also just love it when I can pull off a bit of Road-runner physics in a single-panel, non-moving cartoon.

So, you're going to hate it.  That's just the way it works.

Maybe you'll like next week's better.  I'll try to come up with something I really hate.
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Oh, and by the by, we've gotten some reader donations recently.  Unfortunately, all our various blogs share the same Paypal account and I haven't figured out how to flag exactly where the donations are coming from.  So I don't know if people are donating because of "Minions at Work," or because they found a post useful over at www.YorkWriters.com, or if they want to keep the World's Worst Literary Agent, Sydney T. Cat (www.BadAgent.Me), in tuna.  But if it's you guys out there, thank-you from the bottom of our bottomless pit!

And finally, I'm working on some improvements in the site.  Under our banner, you'll now find a little menu bar with a "Home" button and a link to a page with bios of the various Minions, just to help you keep them straight.  (There's a link for "Overlords," but I haven't written those bios yet.  Maybe next week.)

Anyway, thanks, and see you guys around the lair.

                               your Minon Master,
                               Steve

Minions #208 - Dead Reckoning

Click on image for dangerously explosive enlargement!

Stand by, following the usual commercial near-miss for a narrow escape 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.

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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!

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Greetings, Lucky Survivors!

I'm just back from Radcon in lovely, radioactive, Pasco, Washington, where Mrs. Minion Minion Master and I had a great time, and I unexpectedly found myself on a web comic panel.  Actually, I'd EXPECTED to be scheduled to a web-comic panel, but I also expected it would be before I arrived (late on Friday due to scheduling conflicts and travel time), and so I really wasn't prepared. 

Turns out I was scheduled for a SECOND web comics panel Saturday afternoon.  So I frantically pulled up some of the older Minions files on my laptop, downloaded more from the site here, and put together a sizable slide-show of cartoons to run during the panel.  In other words, not a complete disaster.  The stupid news is, I still had a few "Evil is Just my Day Job" buttons with me, and forgot to give them out that the panel.  Oh well.

Anyway, for those who were at Radcon and may be keeping track,  it is still Monday here on the west-coast, so I'm posting on-time by my own rules.  (We talked about consistency, and how I try to get something up here every Monday, rain or shine.)

Well, I'm tired, and I want a valentine cookie.  To heck with you guys.

Next week....

                                    - Mobile Minion Master Steve

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Minions #207 - Scream Gems

 Stand by, following the usual blah, blah, blah for AN EDUCATIONAL EXPLANATION OF TODAY'S CARTOON 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!

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Greetings, Highly Expendibles!

Glad you made it this far, because without a little help, I doubt half of you are going to get today's cartoon.  But this is important, damn it!  I'm adding something indispensable to your cultural literacy here, by introducing many of you to the "Wilhelm Scream!"

The "Wilhelm" screen is a commonly used sound effect that has been passed through generations of Hollywood sound editors, and is in many of the best-loved films of all time!  You've heard it dozens, if not hundreds of times, without knowing it.  But once you've heard it out of context, you won't forget it, and can have a secret laugh next time you hear it in a movie or TV show.  (I heard it as a bad-guy fell from a cable-car in last week's episode of "Human Target," for example.)

Here are a couple of fan-edited compilation videos from YouTube featuring various instances of the "Wilhelm Scream."  See how many you've seen (or heard) before!  Fun! Enjoy!




So, there you have it, the Wilhelm Scream!

See you guys back here next week!

              - Minion Master Steve

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Minions#206 - Power to the Penguins!

Stand by, following the usual long commercial climb for a bit of wisdom 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 flesh-termites 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, Oppressed Avians!

Yes, we're late this week.  Back from vacation, and not used to running on a schedule yet.

Hey, we went to a taping of "The Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson (if you aren't a fan yet, you're missing out here) which was great fun.  But one thing stood out in Minion-terms.  In his monologue, Craig explained how he wanted to "live in a volcano" with an army of "robot skeletons!"  How cool is that?  It's like he knew I was there!  But he didn't!

Anyway, I could have told him we have a volcano for sale.

The Ancient Minion is back this week, and so is the Penguin.  It's been a while since I featured our fine-feathered Minion, so it's good to have him back in action.

Anyway I'll keep this short, so it isn't posted any later than it already is.  Hopefully back on schedule next week.

                       - Missing Minion Master Steve

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