Shining, shimmering, splendid

If you like science fiction and comics, you should be aware that C Spike Trotman - creator of the webcomic Templar, Arizona, and editor/publisher of a number of successful comics anthologies, has just today announced the Kickstarter campaign for her latest: New World: A Sci-Fi/Fantasy Anthology, with 25 stories about culture clashes. As of this writing, the campaign's been live for about five hours, and is already halfway funded.

Contributors include Carla Speed McNeil (writer/artist of Finder, long-running science fiction comic whose absence from Best Graphic Story Hugo ballots is baffling to me), Blue Delliquanti (writer/artist of O Human Star), Evan Dahm (writer/artist of Rice Boy), and holy crap she got something from Matt Howarth! And a couple of dozen other creators; there's a list on the Kickstarter page. You can get a feel for the sorts of things that will (and won't) be in the anthology by reading Spike's pitch document for prospective creators.

If you hurry, you might be able to get in on the "Science Fiction Double Feature" reward level, which gets you both a copy of New World and one of The Sleep of Reason, her horror anthology from last year. It's already too late for the "Early-Bird Special" reward which gets you the book with free shipping; those 50 reward slots went within the first ten minutes.