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First off, just want to say thanks for 4 great years in the winged helmet. Tough as nails and you always came to work, and it showed.



Just curious, from one fellow artist to another... What's your favorite medium, and whose work are you passionate about? I know I've seen pics of you working in acrylic before, but do you do pencils, pen & ink, oil, etc...?



Keep up the great work and God bless Pahokee

IPhone auto-correct. Yes, Kovacs to the Dolphins...

...aaaaand not regret it once. If you want a bargain get a PC. If you want superior performance and software, get the Mac.p

Have me seeing spots. It's like a Dalmatian lover's wet dream.

Although they already exist on Facebook... Facebook.com/theblockhams.com



If you credit them to www.theblockhams.com if you do, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

That's Edna Katzenmoyer

This whole sitting at a computer reading MGoBlog IS JUST A DREAM!!! What if there IS no Tacopants?!

Honestly, no. I have no plans to pull some cheesy sitcom solution or comic book ret-con to wrap this storyline. Without going all exclusive story, I can say that this idea is as old as the strip itself. Last January I had thoughts of putting a character inside the Glick to interact with caricatures of players and staff. My initial concept was a new character, perhaps a cousin, with a bizarre threshold for pain that earned the spot. I dropped it simply because I didn't want to start adding new characters so early in the game.

And then I kind of forgot about it until a few weeks ago. When the writers started talking about spring practice it hit me-- and I just thought I could streamline the idea by finding a way to make it Desmond. It won't be a permanent development-- but I'm toying with the idea of keeping him on the team for next season. What do you guys think... Finish it now or let him play in the fall?

If you've been following along, Desmond can no longer "get" hurt. It just looks bad.

If you don't see the Villain literally die, he's not dead.

I hope to remember you just the way you are now. Y'know, just 'gruntled.' Before the MGoInternetz has its way with you, haha



Srsly, congratulations

This February wave started off soooo strong, lost its wind tonight...

You are attempting to use the words "impossible" and "Denard" in the same sentence. Where have you been the last four years?!

I'll be seeing Denard on the field next year.



Just. Like. Rick.

I still want to look around at other schools, but I was offered an extra $800, two tattoos and an '03 Celica to announce my verbal earlier this week. Not even Ole Miss offered that kinda cash.

Sorry... Last year I read a great article about how some of the industry pro's of the past write the script to fill the balloon-- meaning, they put the balloon into the artwork and then tried to choose just the right words to get their point across AND fill up the balloon in a visually pleasing manner at the same time.

It's harder than it sounds... and I was also multi-tasking at the same time. Sorry, and thanks for the catch.

We have serious intel suggesting that somewhere on campus in East Lafayette there's a monstrous Queen alien just pumping out Purduestaches. If I were Darrell Hazell, the new HC, I'd be afraid. I'd be very afraid.

Works for me on multiple devices... Anyone else?

Somebody's gonna go after those phone records at some point-- if I were a betting man I'd put good money on one of the reporters that did a sit-down and feels humiliated by the whole thing.

If there in fact was some girl that he sat on the phone with all night discussing his hopes and dreams, certainly she's gonna come out at some point, probably in some exclusive paid interview, book deal, or otherwise a cash grab. Unless, that is, she's already been given a sizeable sum to vanish, as it were.

Lies produce more lies, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the 'truths' of the case revealed this week may very well be retracted as the story continues to unfold. Perhaps Swarbrick himself may end up selling the kid up the river and discussing how the ND athletic community was lied to by Te'o in a final effort to distance the Golden Dome from this whole thing.

But yeah, the OP is right-- if he is the victim he claims to be, it's time to pony up some proof.

Post a tweet yesterday or Monday saying something to the effect that his return to AA was going to be a short trip, leaving Thursday, etc? Figured that was it right there...

Been really pushing the FridayRoughs on Twitter lately!

Was 100% pure Colombian awesome. So often this place is like mosh pit full of heavily armed ninjas ready to slice each other to ribbons in a moment's notice.

This thread, this Festivus miracle, shows a level of brotherhood typically reserved for conference titles and Saturday nights full of four-star commitments. Bravo, gentlemen!!

Let Brian decide what it is.

Eat well, my friends.
The hating of Buckeyes burns a lot of calories.

If you look closely, you'll find Desmond was visiting Frigid County Regional Hospital. It's up north, I guess.

Everyone is left-handed. Right-handed people are make-believe, like the Tooth Fairy and Bigfoot and the Ohio State Compliance Office.

This OP bows to no one. You can take your informative title and shove it up your ulnar nerve, Mgoblog.



You want your meaningful content spoonfed to you, then maybe this isn't the place for you. Morans.

Your free imaginary candy corn will be delivered in 3 to 159 weeks. And sorry but all the imaginary chocolate kind is sold out at my local grocery stores. All they have left is that crappy Fall Mix with the enormous pumpkin sugar lumps mixed in.

That a man experiencing a self-inflicted banishment to freakin' Siberia speaks of how miserable it is in Buckeye City, Buckeye aka Hell Incarnate aka Columbus Ohio aka We're So Gloomy People Would Rather Live in Freakin Siberia, OH.

The intestinal precognitive abilities of Sam Webb. This is good news.

He looks like an extra from "Cowboys & Aliens."

that as a Pa taxpayer, my own money will be used, against my will of course, to support this monster for the rest of his life.

to drive to Muncie Indiana just to see if there is a sign outside town identifying it as THE BIRTHPLACE OF BRADY HOKE.

If there was none, I would immediately get to work on my own, featuring one of our standard Brady Hoke pointing photos with handpainted text below that reads THIS WAY TO MUNCIE INDIANA, BIRTHPLACE OF BRADY HOKE. Lover of Deep Purple and Hall & Oates. Tremendous.

No, true dat.

Watch football the minute you wake up until you either a.) leave to go out fashionably late for the evening or b.) pass out in the wee hours of the morning with some Pac12 postgame show droning on in the darkness.

Shower if you want. Or don't.

If you live alone, feel free to turn up the TV volume to ungodly levels when you leave the room to go to the bathroom. When people say freedom is a privilege, this is what they're talking about.

And leave remnants of all food consumed throughout the day on the coffee table. Chicken wings? Empty chip bags? Those six pack rings that kill dolphins? Leave it all there as a tribute to the day's conquests. Ants shmants.

Is all of this disgusting and maybe juvenile? Sure. But once that page is turned, you can never go back. So I say revel in your glorious and excusable bachelorhood.

Good stuff, 707. Happy Wife Day, my friends.

Don't let the door hit ya...

surprisingly light day ahead of me on Saturday.  I know, right?

Wearing the never-before-seen DB Domino's Pimp hand design, in fact.

Been off the grid, just found out and haven't got to see all this.  Whoever's behind it, thanks for the publicity, I guess??

Oh, and Butterfield, it's not you, it's me.  No wait, it's totally you.

...and it's 2010 again

I have never eaten at Zingerman's. I know, I know...

And Brian is that uncle who keeps looking out the window and saying that he can hear sleigh bells. SRSLY UNCLE BRIAN???!!

That by the time I create the image in the appropriate size it'll already be Friday afternoon or something. My schedule's tight, so I'll see want I can do but no promises.
You can help, since I'm not much of a Facebook guy-- any idea on the pixel proportions??

Now that the issue has been resolved, I'd like to make a brief statement. While I am a contracted designer for the MGoStore and help promote it within this site and beyond, I am not its proprietor, business manager or owner. As far as this issue was concerned, it was not my call, and i refrained to comment out of respect for those who have indeed made the appropriate decision for everyone.



Secondly, when I did create the design, I was not aware of the Tae Odoms design. All apologies to him and his charity... I give my word that there was no intent to steal on anyone else's endeavors let alone a charitable pursuit.



Finally, I'd like to address Turd Ferguson's animosity towards me, presumably the result of his thinking I was refusing to acknowledge him. I apologize if you felt slighted or ignored, but I had no intent to betray any business partners or partnerships just because you'd called me out. And as for the avatar thing, I took that stance (and defend it) because I created that artwork specifically to be my signature image. Plenty of other readers use my work as their avatar and I have no issues with this at all, but I'd like to reserve rights to the little #60 Lego guy b/c I'll likely go back to it someday. I hope that provides some understanding to my reasoning there.

on Eric Upchurch, who took an absolutely brilliant picture of Denard doing his signature kneel after a score.  May we see it often this year.

Let the Fred Flinstone jokes commence

I like it when the football team is actually playing football.  Ironically, it's about the only time we're NOT talking about football.

"Yuengling."



PS: Their management doesn't really like when people do that.

This is about life, not wins and losses. Couldn't imagine what it would be like to be a parent of a player right now...

The video at least confirms that it's still more or less ND old gold, albeit a very reflective old old that showed up pure bright yellow gold in the Facebook pics. It's still bad, but at least the colors seem to be more on point.



Poor ND... Their struggle for respectability is never-ending...

Curious... Who'd be up for an Upton MGoShirt?!



The product is nothing without the market, you know. Let me guess... Nobody's reading this because of the gif above, right?

Sucks. Speedy recovery, #43

Well, not really, but while checking out Bolden's tweet about the honor of pulling on a UM jersey, I noticed something.



The number 5s are now hooked at the middle terminal, like Iowa's if you're not sure what I mean. Confirmed it by looking at Mealer's sleeve digits as well. Maybe it's something only the designers or typography junkies can appreciate or care about, but that's no minor aesthetic change AFAIC. And no, I for one don't necessarily care for it.

I'd be lying if I said that was a conscious decision.  Truthfully there are occasions that I forget that other people are right handed, haha.  This strip was one of them, I suppose.

a.) I wear medium, sometimes L depending on the shirt. And I'm not a small guy. I hear you on the Hoke sizes though...



b.) Dreads are untouchable as per the athletic dept. if anything we do reminds even a blind tree sloth of Denard in the slightest way, we're in violation ad the school is too if they fail to respond.



c.) I don't really have a C. Just looks weird with only an A and a B.

Way too good to pass up... Let's hope the Ghost of Bo shows up again sometime.

"Performance Metrics." I felt like I was being tricked into enjoying math and hot really really scared.

Jeff Buckley songs, but whatevs.

You can say you love Spielman after his embarrassing display during The Game last year. Dude was literally fuming-- on the air mind you-- because Ohio couldn't pull it off... At one point he almost seemed to be making excuses for their mistakes and couldn't hold back the "wait til next year w/ Urbz" meme.



He sounded like your common white trash Buckeye homer. Poo poo on ESPN for allowing it, although I swear someone in the On-Air Talent dept in Bristol is clearly a Buckeye lover-- it seems like every time you turn on the WWLIS it's Robert Smith, Eddie George, Joey Galloway, etc etc etc. What gives?



/end rant

“@rivalsmike: Another "idk yet" from Derrick Green when asked if he will commit to #Michigan before he leaves. That often means yes but we'll see.”



https://twitter.com/rivalsmike/status/229637112855674880

Just this week his praises were being sung by the keynote speaker of the B1G.



I see him being some part of the equation.

That it was no accident that I added a blog label titled 'Michigan Football Gods' this week.



On the other hand, I realized yesterday that I want to wrap up any hanging storylines in the next few weeks. Real live football is coming!!!

Interesting how each was handled differently...

In other news, #39 HOUMA.  Like it.

It's not bad... we knew the NW stripe was going to be prominent, but I didn't anticipate this.  Actually there was all kind of talk that it was going to be arched, like the architecture in Evanston or something to that effect.

Looks better on the home and the away, obviously, because there's less contrast between the purple & black than purple & white.  Purple is a high value color, which means it's closer to black than white, which allows it to blend in better and therefore helps those white numbers pop.  The purple on the white distances itself more from its white ground, tricking your eye into conceiving that the stripes are part of the numbers rather than the background. The result may very well tamper with the viewer's ability to recognize the numeric shapes.

In other words, the white's won't look as good on TV.  I also think the whole thing will take another hit if and when the players aren't wearing the base layer.  Thoese sleeves certainly help sell the stripe motif, and I'm curious to see how it will look without them.

Still, not bad.  UnderArmour's hell bent on innovation... but at least they've learned a bit of restraint since last year.

This is not the sort of place to be talking about comic books, comic strips, and sequential art!!! Is it??!!

(PS This is supposed to be a joke because it came from me)

...aaaaand fixed.  Don't know how I missed it.  Always grateful for the sharp eyes of the Leaders and Best.

Vomit on the keyboard, anyone?

Urbz Meyer is cackling with knowing glee while placing calls on eleven separate cell phones all at once.  Jerk.

But I have to tell you boys... I just finished drawing something, and if the planets align... you'll all be wearin' this bad boy in about a month.  VERY pleased with the results.

was awesome. And so were we.

An honorable mention would have gone to the year (2008?) were they put the online Teambuilder into play... I used to create custom vector logos for my own teams and design uniforms and stadiums based on the artwork to create literally my own program... Too bad the online component was constantly malfunctioning and 'losing' my uploads.  Grrrrrr, still sour about that.

Not bad. I'll see where it goes.

My phone meant to say "TALE."

Missed it.  Fixed.

I will fix the "VROOM" panel later tonight.  Stay tuned. Go Blue.

UPDATE: Fixed.  Jeff Daniels is now telling motorists to look forward to entering Michigan.

She just hasn't turned around yet.... you know that Route 75 traffic...

Oriental Andrew is right-- today's strip sees Desmond continue his courtship of the impossibly hot redhead from his summer work.  Raise your hand if you saw this coming, naturally...

http://www.theblockhams.com/2012/07/truth-about-caitlin.html

As for the late-in-the-day publish, it's essentially a double strip and took a whole lot longer than I anticipated.  Plus there was some considerable detail necessary for today's strip. Curly hair, the starry firmament, etc.

But I feel like I was well represented-- I counted at least 4 of my shirts just in a brief scan of the album.

Who's that wearing my Chuck "Shadow Heisman" design? FWIW I'm wearing the same tee as I type this!

To the guys who wore their full UM gear the Sunday after the Horror, Toledo, and other such nightmares. But you're not wrong-- those are the days when true fandom is exhibited.

Wish I could be there. Congrats and sell several million copies.

Also wanted to note that the HTTV edition of The Blockhams will not appear online. It's an MGoExclusive!!

There goes the Internet...

We need to create a shirt design that pays homage to your exploits... Who wouldn't want a CRex shirt??

Liquitex acrylic.  You can mix any color under the sun with five tubes of the stuff.

Glad to have you back on the job...

Just a few extra lines of pen and ink.  Hur hurr

The best selling shirt in East Lansing history.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

You must be the only one down there with a smile on his face.  Good times.

I must admit I'm skeptical about if this is NOT a hoax.

Every time I go off the grid I miss something.  Thanks Seth and all of the staff.  And Brian, poor fellow.

In case he or anyone else failed to see it, here is today's Blockhams "Friday Rough" in his honor:

Obviously I feel compelled to say that not all of the above t-shirt designs are mine.  And out of all the ones I was not a part of, I sincerely wish I could say I came up with "Worst State Ever."  That's gold, Jerry.

As for ProfitGoBlue... actually a great question.  I've actually taught a lecture/discussion on that very topic, whether creativity is learned or innate.  When I have more time I'll give you my thoughts.

Got a little too caught up in the 'change the text to fit the bubble' game. Error fixed.

Tom and Pam lives just a few doors down from his mom and dad.

So he has a tendency to drop in his parent's house for breakfast, mostly as an excuse to talk shop with his Dad.  I have a theory that every good comic has some sort of watering hole, or water cooler or whatever, where the characters check in to talk about what's going on in the world.

So I guess mine is Donna Blockham's breakfast nook.

on our team one year who ended up in the penalty box practically ever shift.  He ended up being called "The Gynecologist."

vs. Iowa, circa 2008?

And yes, by that I mean not the football team, but the entire state of Iowa.

about the NCAA disinterest?  I read your post and thought you were imagining me as some pasty ginger type or something?  I'm like, "dude, get in the pool? You think I have a skin condition?"

It's all good. Life is nuts enough already, trust me

You're not the only one enjoying this.  Keep up the good work and continue to make us proud.

I've sometimes wondered what the community thought about the Tuesday here/Thursday there routine.  I like to think I have the process pretty well dialed in at this point, but thanks as always for the confirmation.