Location: Baseball Diamond

Champions of Unpaid Overtime

It was my birthday yesterday, which feels like more of an achievement in pandemic world than it has in the past. It was a pretty good birthday, all things considered – the Oilers and Raptors both won, I got an awesome piece of art as a gift (which you can see on my Twitter). While being a truly bizarre year of existence, 2020 was actually pretty good for my cartooning career, and you’ll be seeing some of the results of that later this year.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Ben Hamlin is Employee of the Week. You can find Ben’s podcasts/streams on the Infinity Break Network! He also has access to Hell, Inc. Volume 4: Mandatory, and you can too if you head over to the Hell, Inc. Patreon page and chip in as little as $1/month! Patrons have access to both the third and fourth Hell, Inc. print books in their digital form, including exclusive short stories in each, and over 1000 pages of other digital comics!

It’s the beginning of the month, which means votes on Top Webcomics are worth a lot more as the rankings reset monthly. It’s the primary source of new readers for Hell, Inc., so vote early and often! You can vote daily by clicking on the banner below.

Next Week: The most diabolical punishment revealed. Read it early on Patreon!

Somebody Else to Blame

Why be introspective and learn about yourself when you can blame your failures on others? It’s so much easier!

In other news, I just signed some paperwork that will lead to exciting Hell, Inc. developments in THE FUTURE. Dunno how far into the future, that part isn’t really up to me.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Robbie Dorman is Employee of the Week, and is co-host of a new podcast called Cartoon Graveyard! I was the first guest in the podcast’s history, on the episode about The Mighty Ducks cartoon (it’s really weird!). You should check it out, and also check out his main podcast, The Simpsons Show. You should ALSO check out the Hell, Inc. Patreon, where Hell, Inc. Volume 4: Mandatory is now available to patrons at any level!

You can also help out by voting for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which continues to bring in new readers. You can vote daily by clicking the banner below!

Next Week: Blame Game World Champions! Read it early on Patreon!

Emotional Growth?

B.L. Zebub having a temper tantrum is always a lot of fun to write and draw. Much more fun than actual bosses having temper tantrums.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Welcome Shane Lees, our new Employee of the Week! He’s one of the first to have access to Hell, Inc. Volume 4: Mandatory because he supports Hell, Inc. on Patreon, but YOU CAN, TOO! If you want access to digital copies of Hell, Inc. books 3 and 4, plus over a thousand pages of other comics, you can get that for as little as $1 while also helping keep the mortgage paid on the Hell, Inc. offices by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon.

You can also help out by voting for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is a prime source of new readers! You can vote once per day to boost the comic’s visibility on the rankings. Vote by clicking on the banner below.

Next Week: Turning despair into despair-aie. You don’t want to meet the Despaire-Aid Man. Read it early on Patreon!

Actually Try, Now

Ah, yes, it turns out that all-stars don’t need an all-star effort to beat… *checks notes*… a bunch of schlubs in the office slo-pitch league.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Brien Aronov is Employee of the Week, and will be one of the folks getting a digital copy of Hell, Inc. Volume 4: “Mandatory” later today once I’ve put the finishing touches on the file! You can be one of those people, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon! New subscribers at any level will receive volume 4 as well as over 1000 pages of other digital comics by me and special guest cartoonist Lukasz Kowalczuk!

You can also vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is the primary source of new readers for the comic. More votes = more visibility, so click on the link below to vote (daily)!

Next Week: B.L. Zebub reacts to adversity in a mature, thoughtful manner. Nah jk. Read it early on Patreon!

No Effort All-Stars

I love stories about pro athletes playing their sport with normal people in rec leagues or whatever. It’s easy to forget that superhumans are real, and they’re paid exorbitantly to put objects into particular places as efficiently as possible. So they’re like postal workers but with much flashier uniforms.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Joe Amon is Employee of the Week, and is one of the folks who has had access to Hell, Inc. book 3: “Team-building Exercise,” and, soon, Hell, Inc. book 4: “I haven’t titled this one, yet.” That’s, uh, that’s a working title. You, too, can have exclusive early access to the new book, including it’s book-only short story, “The Bad Chair,” by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon for as little as $1 a month!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting on Top Webcomics! It’s early in the month, so votes are worth a lot more as the rankings reset! Hell, Inc. has consistently been in the top 300 for the past few months, so thank you all for voting! Keep it up!

Next Week: It all comes down to effort! Read it early on Patreon!

Homer’d

Whooooops I haven’t missed updating on a Monday in a long time. That’s what happens when I use my wife’s job to tell pandemic time and the holidays screw that up haha. This strip is also my first appearance in any of my comics, outside of maybe a crowd scene or two that I’ve forgotten. Panel 7 features me in my office as it appeared at the time of me drawing the strip.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Cait is the Employee of the Week, and her Etsy shop, Soaps & Sorcery, will be restocked at some point in January, so keep an eye on that. Also keep an eye on the Hell, Inc. Patreon, where book 4 will be available in January! New patrons will receive access to the new book in PDF form, and there are over 1000 pages of other digital comics available to patrons!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics, which brings in a lot of traffic. You can vote daily, and votes early in the month count for more as the rankings are reset!

Next Week: Calling them “All-Stars” may have been excessive. Read it early on Patreon!

Super Sweaty Steve

I drew the panel where Steve is sweating an entire ocean months ago, before the book project I recently wrapped up. I didn’t realize how much I would miss drawing really exaggerated, cartoony stuff like that. It plays much more into my strengths as a cartoonist and storyteller.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Bartender of the Apocalypse is Employee of the Week! You too can be Employee of the Week by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon, because capitalism. Isn’t it wonderful to need to have art projects financed so that things like eating can happen? Sure is. Anyway, new patrons get access to the PDF version of Hell, Inc. Volume 3: “Team-building Exercise,” which is currently exclusive to Patreon! There are also over a thousand pages of other digital comics on there!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics, which is the largest source of new readers for the comic! So get in there and click that banner (you can vote daily!).

Next Week: More sportsball and existential terror! Read it early on Patreon!

Stan’s Satanic All-Stars

Can you name the players on Stan’s Satanic All-Stars? Bonus points if you know the rest of the team from these guys. You’ll be seeing more of them over the next couple of strips.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Azhar Baig is Employee of the Week, and comes to us through my previous collaboration with the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast on some merchandising for the show. I’m pretty sure I sell more merch for LLBD than I do for myself. Also, by “pretty sure” I mean “I definitely do and it’s not close.” If you think Hell, Inc. is worth a dollar, head over to the Patreon and get yourself a digital copy of Hell, Inc. Volume 3: Team-building Exercise as well as over 1000 pages of other comics!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics, where a higher ranking results in increased visibility to webcomic readers around the world. You can vote daily by clicking the banner below!

Next Week: Steve’s sweatiness knows no bounds. Bathe in that sweet, sweaty sweat on Patreon.

Satan was a Typo

Because of the way my design process works (typically things aren’t designed until I know I need to draw them in the story soon), Stan only existed as a rough concept in my mind for the longest time. Designing him a hybrid baseball/tinpot dictator uniform was a lot of fun, though.

If you want to do some Christmas shopping from my online store, you should do that ASAP to ensure the mail gets to  you on time.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Christine Bennett, better known as Purple Pony Art, is Employee of the Week! She has early access to Hell, Inc. Volume 3: “Team-building Exercise” and you can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon! There are also a little over a thousand pages of other comics available to Patrons, which is a lot. BOOM math’d.

It’s also very helpful to vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, because that’s where the majority of new readers discover the comic. More votes = more visibility from being higher on the list. Click the banner below to vote (you can do it daily!)

Next Week: Stan seems like a great boss. Read it early on Patreon!

Brain Genius

When I look at what’s coming up next as I write update posts, I barely remember having drawn these strips. Outside of a handful, everything that’s been uploaded since August was drawn five or six months before it was posted. I’m, hopefully, less than two weeks away from being done with my current book contract, at which point I can start drawing demons again!

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Sebastian is Employee of the Week, and you can, too! If you think what I do here with Hell, Inc. is worth a dollar, head over to the Patreon and be rewarded with early access to the digital version of Hell, Inc. Vol. 3: “Team-building Exercise” as well as over 1000 pages of digital comics!

You can also vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is the comic’s largest source for new readers. A lot of you have been voting, and it’s been very helpful – Hell, Inc. has consistently been hanging around some much more established and popular comics in the rankings, which is pretty cool. Click on the banner to vote! Votes early in the month are particularly helpful as the rankings reset!

Next Week: The comic I thought was this week, but wasn’t this week, because next week and this week are different times. Solve the time paradox on Patreon.