#space dog

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Super dogs

James gunn loves super dogs.

I drew this sometime after Superman lol. I honestly wasn't sure when to post, but now Supergirl is out. Why not share her dog?

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Just before the pandemic  started, I found myself working on a drawing inspired by a song that has frequently gotten stuck in my head, Camper Van Beethoven's Humid Press of Days.  The lyrics to me convey the fascination, exhilaration and closely linked terror of space travel.  It speaks about the periods beyond just ignition and taking off -- the silence and still dull emptiness -- and what that means for a living feeling body.

I could not help but project that onto the story of Laika, the street dog in the Soviet Union selected for the Sputnik program and the thoughts ended up a pen and ink:

Which I later added in a hand written frame of the lyrics and gave to a friend who loves space and science fiction for Christmas.

I liked the design from my drawing enough, I wanted to do some sort of edition of it and landed on making it an enamel pin.  

Most of the photos I found of Laika's flight gear were in black and white, so I tried to select colors that reminded me of NASA suits I had seen. For the backing card, I included the constellations Orion, Lepus the rabbit, and of course Canis Major and Minor. Laika sits in the center on top of the unicorn constellation, Monoceros.

You think they saw her innocent little body - slow roasted alive and suffocated - and shed an interstellar tear?

Do you think they looked at that sweet little dog, and then back to each other, and decided that any species that could do this to one of their own, wasn't a species worth contacting?