Character: Bridget

Champions

Welcome to the 666th (maybe? I dunno, we lost count) Annual Mandatory Intramural Slo-Pitch Tournament. Catchy name, right? I thought so.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Robbie Dorman, host of The Simpsons Show podcast, is Employee of the Week. He’s also one of the co-hosts of new podcast Cartoon Graveyard, on which I was the first guest! We talked about The Mighty Ducks animated series from 1996-7 and discussed whether it should be reincarnated or buried, and it was a lot of fun. If you like fun, you probably also want to be Employee of the Week and help Hell, Inc. continue existing by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon. All new patrons are receiving a digital copy of Hell, Inc. Volume 3: Team-building Exercise, as well as access to a Dropbox folder with over 1000 pages of digital comics!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics, which brings in loads of new readers! Votes early in the month (like, say, now) are worth extra as the rankings reset.

Next Week: Stan is the Man. Or whatever you would call an incarnation of evil? Read it early on Patreon!

Reasonable Practice Schedule

This would definitely be the style of practice scheduling that every football coach would go with if they were allowed to. Football is already cartoonishly militaristic, might as well add the sleep deprivation and hideous overworking, too! I know the demons are playing baseball, not football, but I don’t know any stereotypes about baseball coaches, and the football coach ones are all insane.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Brien Aronov is Employee of the Week, and you can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon! You’ll also get access to Hell, Inc. book 3, “Team-building Exercise” as well as over a thousand pages of other comics for as little as $1! What else are you gonna do with $1? Nothing, that’s what. So hit up the Hell, Inc. Patreon and continue to allow me to both produce comics AND pay my mortgage! I like to be able to do both of those things.

You can also buy books from my online store, from which there is free shipping to Canada until the end of October! Every book gets a signature and a sketch in it.

As always, votes on Top Webcomics are very helpful in bringing in new readers, and you can do that daily by clicking on the banner below! We recently saw a big surge which jumped Hell, Inc. by over 200 places last week!

Next Week: TOURNAMENT ARC! The BEST kind of story. Read it early on Patreon!

Anthropomorphized Shapesball

It’s Shapesball Night in Hellmerica! Insert the theme of your favourite sports program here. And then duck if you see shapes flying at your head, because it’s probably the ball.

In other news, the book market graphic novel I’ve been working on continues to grind along toward completion, after which I’ll be wrapping up Hell, Inc. Volume 4.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Joe Amon is Employee of the Week, and has access to over a thousand pages of digital comics for supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon, including book 3, “Team-building Exercise!” You can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. for as little as $1 a month! Patreon is my only really predictable income source, so even a dollar is incredibly helpful!

It’s also incredibly helpful to vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, because that brings in a lot of new readers! Click on the banner below to vote daily!

Next Week:A well designed practice schedule for a well-oiled baseball machine! Read it early on Patreon!

Anthropomorphized Shapes

And now you’ve got the Tetris theme stuck in your head again. You’re welcome. I continue to grind away on the graphic novel I’ve been hired to draw for one of the book market publishers, so I continue to lack things to say in these news posts.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Cait is Employee of the Week! You can buy her fantasy-themed soaps on her Etsy store, Soaps & Sorcery. We’re also working on a roleplaying game together about failson Space Marines causing massive amounts of carnage through their incompetence. If you want to support Hell, Inc. (of course you do, it’s great), hit up the Hell, Inc. Patreon where you can also get exclusive access to the third Hell, Inc. book, “Team-building Exercise” by donating at any level!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics! It has been the largest source of new readers for Hell, Inc. Click the banner below to vote!

Next Week: Anthropomorphized Shapesball! Read it early by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon!

Ping Pong Plan

Alternate title: The Preposterous Push-off Ping Pong Pinball Plan. Could I have worked in more “P” words? MAYBE!

In other news, COVID has got me thinking about how I want to approach future print releases for Hell, Inc. The vast majority of my book sales, outside of Kickstarters for product launches, come from doing conventions and book fairs. I have been able to sell Hell, Inc. books at exactly one (1) event since the launch last year, and it’s not looking like 2020/21 will have a busy convention season. Is it a good idea to carry on with my plan to Kickstart books 3-4 and 5-6? Or maybe I should just wait and do a collected edition with all six books once they’re done. Thoughts, dear reader? As the target audience for those books, I value your input on the topic.

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!

Next Week: We meet Diane, who does not have a great sense of who the people in the office are. Read it early on Patreon!

Office Ninja

The chair stealing subplot involved a lot of things that were really easy to write, but much more difficult to draw. There’s a lot of messing around with camera angles and the flow of panels to make it as interesting as possible within the strip format.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Jillian Dolan is Employee of the Week! She is also a comic-smith, and you should check out her works, including Misha and Kyle the Nihilist Dinosaur. They’re delightful. If you think Hell, Inc. is delightful and want to support it with your hard-earned money, head over to the Hell, Inc. patreon. As a reward, new sign-ups gain access to a folder of over 1000 pages of comic, including the otherwise unreleased Hell, Inc. Vol. 3: “Team-building Exercise!”

You can also vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is the number one source of new readers for the comic. Votes early in the month (for example, this week) are super valuable as the rankings reset at the beginning of the month. You can vote once per day, so click on the banner below to get voting!

Next Week: The Mission Impossible theme would be playing but I don’t have the rights to it so just hum it yourself. Read it early on Patreon!

The Mediocre-est Laid Plans

This strip is one I look forward to converting to Webtoon format in *checks calendar* at minimum 6 months from now. There are some jokes that are perfect for the infinite scroll format of Webtoon, and ones that involve waiting a long time for something are at the top of that list.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Cindy Gauthier is Employee of the Week, and can help fulfill all of your COVID-related mask needs. If you want to get your comics needs handled, support Hell, Inc. on Patreon, where you’ll get a digital copy of the aforementioned “Team-building Exercise” book (which includes a book-exclusive short story) as well as over 1000 pages of other comics!

You can also vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is the number one source of new readers for the comic. Votes early in the month (for example, this week) are super valuable as the rankings reset at the beginning of the month. You can vote once per day, so click on the banner below to get voting!

Next Week: The great bad chair reverse-heist finally begins and sure is something. Read it early on Patreon!

Chair Crimes

I don’t know why, but I really like the device of having things written on sticky notes that function as their own panel. I also like using very dramatic shadows for something very stupid, like chair crimes. CHAIR CRIMES.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Robbie Dorman, host of The Simpsons Show podcast, is Employee of the Week. If you like Hell, Inc. you probably also like The Simpsons, because that’s pretty foundational to my sense of humour and how I write jokes, so you should listen to The Simpsons Show. If you like Hell, Inc. you probably also want to be Employee of the Week and help Hell, Inc. continue existing by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon. All new patrons are receiving a digital copy of Hell, Inc. Volume 3: Team-building Exercise, as well as access to a Dropbox folder with over 1000 pages of digital comics!

You can also vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is a great way to help boost the comic’s visibility and bring in new readers. Click on the banner below to vote!

Next Week: I love it when a plan comes together. This isn’t one of those times, though. Read it early on Patreon!

Tetris Brain

And now the Tetris theme is stuck in your head, isn’t it? You’re welcome. Also someone who knows how to make video games should make Hell, Inc. Spreadsheet Tetris a thing. Email or DM me or something, let’s make this happen.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Cait is Employee of the Week both here and at her new soap company, Soaps & Sorcery. She is also the other person who is working from home in my art lair. Except not IN my art lair, she has her own work lair. It’s full of soap and also all of the books that I would normally be selling at conventions. If YOU want to be Employee of the Week and get a plug for your soap business or whatever, head over to the Hell, Inc. Patreon and help keep the lights on over here.

You can also vote for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which brings in a bunch of new readers. Click on the link below to vote, which you can do daily!

Next Week: The BAD CHAIR WARS *thunder and lightning*. Read it early on Patreon!

The Bad Chair

Early in working on Hell, Inc. I solicited weird office stories from my friends who work in offices, and the bad chair comes from one of those. Caitlin had her chair swapped at some point while she was out of the office, and realized pretty quickly that the new one was broken and hurting her back. After a week or so of scouting the office for unused chairs, she found one that was unattended and swapped it with the bad chair. And thus I had a very silly subplot that would prove to be totally obnoxious to draw.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Azhar is Employee of the Week, and has come to us via some crossover from the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast, which I’ve done some art for this year. Do you want a drawing of Napoleon as a donkey riding backwards on a confused horse? Well because of LLbD, you can do that. Do you want to help support Hell, Inc.? You can do that, too! If you think what I’m doing here is worth a dollar, you can support Hell, Inc. on Patreon to get early access to each strip and a digital copy of Hell, Inc. Volume 3: “Team-building Exercise!”

You can also help me out by voting for Hell, Inc. on Top Webcomics, which is the largest source of new readers for the comic. It’s early in the month, so votes are worth more as the rankings reset and the playing field is leveled. Click the banner below to vote!

Next Week: The Saga of the Bad Chair continues. Read it early by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon!