As we mentioned in the last episode, we spent the weekend at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo! Here's an account of what we did, what we bought, and who we met during the show! Don't forget to look at the links below for a bunch of stuff we talk about:

• Album of pictures we took
• Gextra Life 2016 playlist
• Adam Fotos
• Roboism
• Friendshipping
• Unlearned
• The Chicago Podcast Cooperative
• Sex Criminals Leggings
• Mouse Guard on Six Feats Under
• Sparkle Designs
• ChipAndIronicus.com Chipod Ironicast on iTunes
• Our friend's absent friend's art tumblr
• Twisted Toonz' Youtube channel
• SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter

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The Space Race was contested by governments and scientists, but the first explorers were a cadre of stray dogs from the streets of Moscow. These dogs sit at the intersection of mid-century optimism, political posturing, and questionable ethics. 

Links!

• A Chapter on Laika's pop culture memory
• Soviet Space Dogs, a book of merchandise and tributes to the dogs.
• Gallery of images from Soviet Space Dogs

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In 1899 two newspaper giants were fighting for control of the New York readership, and tried to squeeze their distributors for an extra advantage. Those distributors were self-employed child laborers, who organized themselves and halted the entire distribution system until their demands were met. This drama, a nearly forgotten footnote in US labor history, was dramatized in a commercial flop of a film, and re-dramatized in a successful Broadway musical. Can a success set a precedent if it's forgotten? Does an adaptation have a duty to be accurate; and what if the facts are lost? How can an unpopular work become more sucessful after being changed for the worse?

Links!

• Newsies (1992)
• Newsies the Musical
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance Painter, by listener Ciaran
• SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
• Warcraft on Alcohollywood
• Mouse Guard by Six Feats Under

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