This morning in bed with tedprior he was telling me about a movie with Chris Pine. I said, yeah, I know who that is. He said, the guy from the Star Trek movie. I said, oh. I guess I didn't know who that is.

I started trying to explain who I was thinking of.

"He's kind of... clean around the eyes?"

For some reason this made Grug hysterical. I tried to explain.

"He has hopeful eyes?"

I tried to show him what I meant but this just made him laugh harder.

My other information ("His name might be Chris? I think he played a love interest once?") did not help.

Neither did a search of IMDB for "Chris". (There's a lot of them!)

I did image searches for the following:

chris cute eyes love interest
hopeful eyes actor
squinty eyes cute actor

The more I thought about it, I thought he might have blue eyes? And maybe he played a football player in something?

blue crinkly eyes
blue eyes football actor

yielded no results. THIS IS KILLING ME.

I tried drawing him but Grug still didn't know who it was:



I think maybe I didn't make his eyes hopeful enough?

I need your help! Who am I thinking of? He has light brown hair and (possibly) blue eyes, but I can definitely say that his eyes are crinkly and hopeful, and he is clean around the eyes. I am saying that he has a lot of face! His eyes are normal sized but his face is big. Maybe his name is Chris? Or he once played a character named Chris? Or maybe not?

Please post suggestions (with photos) in the comments! Or is you know who I'm thinking of but can't remember his name, draw him like I did! WE CAN DO THIS!


EDIT: It's Chris Klein you guys!!!



Grug figured it out in the shower!

I was so close! His name even rhymes with Chris Pine!

Now do you see what I mean about having hopeful eyes?

This one went up the Tuesday after Christmas, so I didn't get around to posting it until now. Sorry! I really enjoyed my Internet-free holidays, though.

Aaaaaaand... that's it! As I resolved, I posted an Activities comic every week in 2010. That's fifty-two comics, you guys! This was a really good exercise, and I feel like I got a lot better about just sitting down and writing instead of waiting for inspiration to strike. It also really helped me to have the discipline of a weekly post.

However, I'm going to give it a rest for a while. Activities was deliberately designed as a very static, minimal comic, but that means that I'm not really learning anything from drawing it. I feel like I need a bigger challenge this year, one that will push me a bit. So, I've begun work on a graphic novel. So far I'm in the planning and design stage but I'm about to start writing a script. I'm really excited about this!

What wonderful things are you planning for 2011?

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(Disapproving rabbits image from this site)

I hope you all have a lovely holiday and a wonderful, productive 2011. Thank you for reading my comics and being my friends!

Love,
Jessica.

Luke Milton, writer of Glorious Bounty, creator of Bunnies that Hate and general man-about-town, has 'live-actionised' Mungo and Hattie! I think you will agree that the results are... unique. You can read the post here. Look at this photo right before you go to sleep tonight and tell me what you dream about!

Luke's awesome blog is very much worth a read!

Merry Crispus everybody!

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Number eighty you guys! Eighty. Ha ha, eighty is a pretty funny word, it sounds like you are talking about a little eight. Just a little eighty, all by himself! Oh you guys I am a bit tired.

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My grandma went to the Hutt River Province in the 70s. She brought back a spoon. Long live Prince Leonard and Princess Shirley!

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Sorry guys, this went up on my site yesterday but I forgot to link to it here!

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Written to the sound of the most godawful "smooth jazz" coming from the park across the road.

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That's the end of Yoshi's comic! It was super-fun to draw. Maybe I'll do another one in the future?

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Part 2 of Yoshi's comic! These are so fun to draw I may never go back.

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I told you Yoshi wrote a comic.

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