Hi ,I'm back from my first Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field they won against the Cincinnati Reds, now quickly wrapping up this Sundae before heading over to Second City for a show, lots going on this weekend!I also published a new episode of the podcast, fantastic conversation with Malachi Rempen, screenwriter and creator of the Itchy Feet travel and language learning web comic. Some great points about traveling, storytelling in short form cartoons, building an audience and a lot more!Enjoy the rest of the your weekend!CheersWillem

 Weekly Combo Two or three flavours, interesting separately, fascinating together 

Cuphead: Creating a Game that looks like a 1930s Cartoon (The Verge, 5 min read)I enjoyed this article about the journey of independent creators over several years to create a scrolling classic action game that looks like a 1930s cartoon, entirely hand-drawn like a 1930s cartoon too. It was just released to the public on Steam this week to wildly positive reviews too. They began with one big order of animation paper which ended up being used up a third of the way through the development of the game. Not a huge link with the next article I selected this week, though the first thing that comes to mind is a certain resilience and spirit to drive through this type of project for years to be successful. Momo: The One Dumpling that Rules Them All (Livemint, 5 min read)I first tried momos on the streets of Pune, a few hours from Mumbai, when I visited India so the humble dumpling spread further than even Northern India as mentioned in this article - and all the way to Japan and China. I'm not sure which came first and almost every culture seems to have some kind of dumpling, though it is fascinating to read about the way a simple food spreads around and how popular it can become. It's a simple kind of resilience spread across many people as opposed to the kind of complex project in the first article, though both carried out by people. A potentially interesting kind of thought that might be worth dwelling on, which will be for some other time.