Character: Steve

Terrible Step-stool

It turns out that humans are not actually good step-stools, especially when they are much smaller than you are.

You’ve probably seen it on the site or on social media by now, but Hell, Inc. has been nominated for an award! It’s up for Best Webcomic in the Sequential Magazine Awards (which are for Canadian independent comics), which is very cool. The winner is voted for by you, the people, and you can vote by clicking the image below! I would really appreciate it if you did that, because winning things rules and I want an award to put in my office (the last one I won saw the company shut down before they sent me my plaque).

If you want to check out the nominees in the other categories, many of whom are friends and acquaintances of mine, check out the full nominee list by clicking here.

Employee of the Week returns next week when I have my shit together and remember to prep the update ahead of time like normal.

Next Week: Even the good news is bad news. Read it early on Patreon!

The Most Terrible Punishment

The most terrible punishment… is forced festivity!? It is in Hell! And also malls in December.

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 Hell, Inc. Volume 4: “Mandatory” (which includes a book-exclusive short story) as well as over 1000 pages of other comics!

You can also support Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics, which is the largest source of new readers. It’s highly ranked this month, so thanks for voting and keep it up by clicking on the banner below!

Next Week: Is Sara as sturdy as soap box? Find out on Patreon!

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!

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!

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!

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.

I Live Here Now

I feel like I could really crush drawing a comic about baseball. I don’t love the sport, but it’s inarguably the best-suited sport to being adapted as stories in other mediums. Speaking of things I don’t love, I haven’t been able to draw the last four pages of Hell, Inc. volume 4 because of the contract work I’m doing. I look forward to mid-December when I get to draw what I want to again.

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 primary source of new readers for the comic! You can vote daily by clicking on the banner below!

Next Week: Sara may have misunderstood the context within which this baseball tournament is happening. Read it early on Patreon!

Montageball

Montageball is like Moneyball except it’s not a lauded film, it’s a strip from a somewhat-read comic on the internet. Also it’s actually about baseball instead of… *gasp*… MATH.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Ben Hamlin is Employee of the Week! You can find listen to Ben’s various podcasting projects on the Infinity Break Network! If you think the entertainment you’ve been getting from Hell, Inc. is worth a dollar, check out the Hell, Inc. Patreon page and contribute to my only reliable source of quarantine income! Patrons have access to the third Hell, Inc. print book, including an exclusive short story, and over 1000 pages of other digital comics!

You can also help Hell, Inc. by voting for it on Top Webcomics, which is a big source of new readers for the comic. You can vote daily by clicking the link below!

Next Week: The pitches continue to be slo, because that is what the sport is. 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!