Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day Are Jokers (in a Deck of Cards)

With a week to go in his Kickstarter campaign, The Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss announced that the card deck he’s funding via the Crowdfunding site (he’s already at $279,000, having asked for only $10,000 to get the cards made) has added a pair of geek culture icons to the deck.Writing on Facebook, Rothfuss just announced the following:

So. Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day have agreed to lend their likenesses to the deck of Name of the Wind playing cards.Specifically, they’re going to be Elodin and Auri, the jokers for our deck. Our delightful wise fools.It is hard for me to describe the geeky joy this brings me. You’d think it was my birthday or something.We added them as stretch goals to the Kickstarter a little earlier today, and given the new traffic we’re seeing, I’m guessing we’re going to hit those goals. Like, probably tonight.In related news, Shane and I will be doing a live video hangout around 4:00 central to work on the art for the jokers together. I’ll be posting a link around 4:00 for those of you who want to join us….

To hit the goal, they need another $4,000 and change (for Gaiman) or $25,000 more beyond that for Day.