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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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.

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, 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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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!

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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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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.

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, 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

 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."

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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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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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