Dan Deacon Announces Hardest Contest Ever

Dan Deacon some fall tour dates that will start next week, Post Typography designed a poster for a tour with over 243 cartoon characters on it. Dan Deacon has announced those who are able to recognize and identify all 243 cartoon characters on the poster get prizes. Some of the characters that I could see a Ninja Turtle, Bill & Ted in the time travelling phone booth and Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes. If you were to figure out all the characters on the poster e-mail the answer postercontest@whamcity.com. A large version of the poster is here, the answer form is here and the diagram that corresponds to the answer form is here. The prizes for the person that figures out the characters are: $500 in cash, a portrait of themselves painted by Dan Deacon, a copy of Wham City Box Set #1, and copies of Dan's first eight releases: "Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat", "Meetlemice", "Goose on the Loose", "A Green Cobra Is Awesome vs. the Sun", "Porky Pig", "Twacky Cats", "Live 2003", "and Acorn Master". Dan Deacon will be supported on his fall tour by Nuclear Power Pants and will stop by a large number of colleges and universities. You can see the tour dates and tour poster below.



Dan Deacon Fall Tour Dates:
10/01 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
10/02 Atlanta, GA - Eyedrum
10/03 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
10/04 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
10/05 Nashville, TN - The End
10/06 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone Café
10/07 New Orleans, LA - Big Top
10/09 Austin, TX - Emo's Alternative Lounge Outside
10/10 Marfa, TX - The Shade Structure
10/14 Irvine, CA - Pacific Ballrom (UC Irvine)
10/15 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
10/16 Los Angeles, CA - Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
10/17 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Festival
10/19 Sacramento, CA - Fungarden
10/21 Eugene, OR - Agate Hall (University of Oregon)
10/22 Portland, OR - Worksound
10/23 Portland, OR - Holocene
10/24 Seattle, WA - Vera Project
10/27 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis
10/29 Northfield, MN The Cave (Carleton College)
10/30 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
11/01 Gambier, OH - The Horn Gallery
11/03 Toronto, ON - Sneaky Dees
11/04 Toronto, ON - Great Hall
11/05 Montreal, QC - Il Motore
11/06 Montreal, QC - Eastern Bloc
11/07 Middlebury, VT - Middlebury College
11/08 Boston, MA - Pozen Center (Mass. College of Art)
11/09 Pawtucket, RI - Machines
11/10 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub
11/13 Troy, NY - Experimental Media & Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
11/14 Worcester, MA - The Grind (Clark University)
11/15 Ithaca, NY - Emerson Suites (Ithaca College)

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