Youka Nitta, YCon's Guest of Honor for this year "can't make it" to the con.
Can't make it is probably code for "saving face after being outed as tracing art from upscale fashion ads."
(see
here and
here)
I wish she was still coming so I could hand her a copy of one of
Greg Land's comics and tell her to buck up. She could still have a great future in American comics. Both of their art styles are fug even without the whole tracing porn/fashion ads thing.