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Red Light Properties #0: The Freebie
THE FIRST TASTE IS ALWAYS FREE! Welcome to the world of Jude & Cecilia Tobin, exorcist/realtors who clear haunted houses of spirits with their team of shabby paranormal experts... and sell them at below-market prices even YOUR BROKE ASS can afford!
15 pages, ebook
First published March 19, 2014
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About the author
Dan Goldman
18 books27 followersDan Goldman is a writer, artist and activist working in graphic novels, animated TV, video games and digital media.
Raised in South Florida, Dan was a founding member of the ACT-I-VATE webcomics collective in Brooklyn, launching the careers of many creators (including his own). In 2006, SHOOTING WAR, his serialized dystopian satire of the War on Terror was nominated for an Eisner Award. Dan began contributing editorial illustrations regularly to New York Magazine's weekly "Intelligencer" column, eventually leaning harder into comics journalism with a long form collaboration with journalist Michael Crowley. Together they created 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, a 160-page nonfiction graphic novel documenting the chaotic 2008 Presidential election--written and drawn in real-time--which resulted in a hybrid of the visual languages of comics and magazine design that NPR Books called "defiantly and refreshingly unconventional."
After the election, Dan and his wife moved to São Paulo, Brazil where he began to produce his long-gestating passion project: a paranormal horror series called RED LIGHT PROPERTIES. Initially serialized online at Tor.com, the series saw print via IDW Books (US) and Plot! (Brazil) and is currently in development as a live-action TV series.
Returning to NYC, Dan produced Emmy-winning experiences for AMC Television and scripted two video games based on mega-hit series The Walking Dead. He then co-created the augmented-reality enabled feminist comic series PRIYA'S SHAKTI with collaborator Ram Devineni. With funding awarded by the Tribeca Film Institute, Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, this work allowed Dan to criss-cross the Indian subcontinent several times, working directly with the young people his stories were created to inspire. The series has since been downloaded nearly 1.5 million times in multiple languages worldwide. This experience in India inspired Dan to found the Kinjin Story Lab, a narrative studio dedicated to creating mindful entertainment across multiple media.
Dan's next book CHASING ECHOES, a semi-autobiographic graphic novel about American Jews traveling across rural Poland in search of family land seized by the Nazis, will be released in November 2019 from Humanoids Publishing.
He is based in Los Angeles with his partner Liliam and two endlessly-entertaining cats.
Raised in South Florida, Dan was a founding member of the ACT-I-VATE webcomics collective in Brooklyn, launching the careers of many creators (including his own). In 2006, SHOOTING WAR, his serialized dystopian satire of the War on Terror was nominated for an Eisner Award. Dan began contributing editorial illustrations regularly to New York Magazine's weekly "Intelligencer" column, eventually leaning harder into comics journalism with a long form collaboration with journalist Michael Crowley. Together they created 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, a 160-page nonfiction graphic novel documenting the chaotic 2008 Presidential election--written and drawn in real-time--which resulted in a hybrid of the visual languages of comics and magazine design that NPR Books called "defiantly and refreshingly unconventional."
After the election, Dan and his wife moved to São Paulo, Brazil where he began to produce his long-gestating passion project: a paranormal horror series called RED LIGHT PROPERTIES. Initially serialized online at Tor.com, the series saw print via IDW Books (US) and Plot! (Brazil) and is currently in development as a live-action TV series.
Returning to NYC, Dan produced Emmy-winning experiences for AMC Television and scripted two video games based on mega-hit series The Walking Dead. He then co-created the augmented-reality enabled feminist comic series PRIYA'S SHAKTI with collaborator Ram Devineni. With funding awarded by the Tribeca Film Institute, Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, this work allowed Dan to criss-cross the Indian subcontinent several times, working directly with the young people his stories were created to inspire. The series has since been downloaded nearly 1.5 million times in multiple languages worldwide. This experience in India inspired Dan to found the Kinjin Story Lab, a narrative studio dedicated to creating mindful entertainment across multiple media.
Dan's next book CHASING ECHOES, a semi-autobiographic graphic novel about American Jews traveling across rural Poland in search of family land seized by the Nazis, will be released in November 2019 from Humanoids Publishing.
He is based in Los Angeles with his partner Liliam and two endlessly-entertaining cats.
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September 18, 2017
The art frequently overlays "regular" drawing with photos and possibly some computer-generated imaging also. It can be really off-putting, getting us into uncanny valley territory.
While I find the art unsettling, I have to acknowledge that the technique is a reasonable way of contributing to the atmosphere. Red Light Properties is a business that takes homes that won't sell because of death issues and clears the negative energy so the property sale can have a green light.
Not only are these properties supposed to be unsettling enough to not sell, but the process of clearing the houses takes a heavy toll on the exorcist, Jude. This shows in many ways, starting with an old picture on the business brochure that contrasts sharply with his current state.
So you should be unsettled and the weirdness is appropriate.
Still offputting.
While I find the art unsettling, I have to acknowledge that the technique is a reasonable way of contributing to the atmosphere. Red Light Properties is a business that takes homes that won't sell because of death issues and clears the negative energy so the property sale can have a green light.
Not only are these properties supposed to be unsettling enough to not sell, but the process of clearing the houses takes a heavy toll on the exorcist, Jude. This shows in many ways, starting with an old picture on the business brochure that contrasts sharply with his current state.
So you should be unsettled and the weirdness is appropriate.
Still offputting.
August 11, 2017
Story is good, like the characters, but the art work is not to my taste.
January 1, 2025
interesting concept.
Seems like an interesting concept and the artwork is pretty solid. The sorry starts slow but hooks you in the final page when you realize that they aren’t just con men but real ghostbusters of sorts.
Seems like an interesting concept and the artwork is pretty solid. The sorry starts slow but hooks you in the final page when you realize that they aren’t just con men but real ghostbusters of sorts.
November 30, 2017
No me gustó el arte. Y la historia no me gustó.
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