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Well it's that time again. Took the bus over to the Seattle Convention Center at 2pm, for the 2012 ECCC. First off, it took 30 minutes to get through the queue - note to self, don't prepay for a ticket next time, it's much quicker to just buy tickets on the day! Then enter the exhibition. It's very crowded, seems busier than last year, and that's with an extra floor added for gaming. This show getss bigger and bigger! Now onto the books. Last year I did three submissions at ECCC and they all came back restored. This taught me not to buy ungraded books on eBay, or to be damn sure a book is not restored before submitting it. So over the last year I stopped buying ungraded books and picked out the best of my existing ungraded books for submission. This all worked fine, but now I'm confronted with all the dealers at comicon, and there are only a few graded books for sale! And they're all really expensive or too low-grade. Darn. And being confronted with all those nice ungraded books is of course a huge temptation. So... I didn't get anything in the end... at least, not yet. Instead, I took a whirl around the con with my 'Monsters and Dames' book, heard lots about assorted titles and new books, and even had a chance to sift through Eric Larsen's original art and sit down with Don Rosa for a couple of minutes. Great fun. Having said all that, I did spot a couple of graded books out there that are promising, but we'll see...