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Sep 25, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

Wham City maven/Day-Glo electro mastermind Dan Deacon is heading back out on the road next week with Baltirmore BFFs Nuclear Power Pants. And yes, they'll be traveling in again in that good-for-the-environment veggie oil bus. (Fans that give up some spare veggie oil get in free to the shows again). The complete tour dates are listed below. To celebrate the fall trek, Post Typography designed a gonzo new poster for Deacon. Fans who want to win glorious prizes must ID all of the 243 cartoon characters drawn within the poster.

If that sounds intense (which it does) Deacon and PT gave some hints on a characters such as: "John Rambo," "Tinkerbell," "Really Bad Drawing of Philip Glass," "Super-Obsessed-Too-Big-Glasses-Wearing-Super-Dan-Fan" and "Rat in a Top Hat."

( I also spy with my little eye: a Snork, Predator, Chewbacca, a Wild Thing, the Michelin Man and King Friday XIII from Mister Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Man, I should start filling in this thing!) A hi-res version of the poster is here, the answer form is here, and a numbered diagram of the poster is here. Good luck to everyone invloved. The winner truly deserves it.

Be the first person to e-mail in all the correctly indentified characters to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), to get four sweet prizes:

01 $500 cash
02 A portrait of you painted by Dan Deacon.
03 One of the last copies of Wham City Box Set #1.
05 A copy of each of Dan Deacon's first eight impossible-to-find 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 Fall Tour:

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, Ontario - Sneaky Dees %
11-04 Toronto, Ontario - Great Hall %
11-05 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore %
11-06 Montreal, Quebec - 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) %

% with Nuclear Power Pants

(www.dandeacon.com)