I love those little wooden boxes as props. They add a lot of nice texture and color. Now much to say about this one, except that it pays to collect an eclectic lot of props.
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The Ancient Minion was one of the later characters to appear in Minions at Work. He grew out of a couple things. First and foremost is that old cartoon cliché of the wise man on the mountaintop, who random characters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I get a lot of mileage out of the bottomless pit. (See what I did there?) This set uses the wonderful bunk beds from the Power Team “Military Life” play set. I’ve got three or four of them, I think.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Ancient Minion and the Penguin meet at last! With the Penguin, part of the joke is always how did he do what you’ve seen or heard that he’s done. In this case, the secondary joke is, how did he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Ancient Minion” was another character introduced late in the Minions at Work 1.o run. I really liked the idea of the character, but he was hard to come up with single-panels for. He tends to be kind of static,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since the 60s at least, a common cartoon trope has been the character climbing a mountain to find a wise man and gain from him wisdom. I wanted to do that in Minions at Work, but came up with my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…