NEW SG Interview: Dan Goldman – Red Light Properties0

by Alex Dueben

Dan Goldman is best known for “Shooting War,” a comic written by Anthony Lappe which he illustrated. It first appeared online at Smith Magazine before being collected into a book in 2007. Since then Goldman, a member of the online comic collective Act-i-vate, has crafted a number of comics for print and the web.

“Red Light Properties” is a project Goldman has been developing for years and since January he’s been serializing the book on Tor.com. It’s the story of a small Miami Beach real estate firm – with a specialty – taking on haunted properties and exorcising the ghosts before selling them on. This isn’t ghostbusters, though. The plot’s a lot stranger and more complex, as are the characters.

There’s no Bill Murray or Sigourney Weaver types at this ghost-busting agency, which is staffed up by the likes of Jude, the drug-addled would-be shaman who communicates with his dead father far more than his wife, Ceci, who’s the realtor and the brains of the operation. Drugs, family, ghosts and some incredibly trippy sequences have all been leading up to the final installment of the book which goes live this week. We spoke to Goldman by e-mail from his home in Brazil.

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