{"id":17688,"date":"2025-08-19T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17688"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:39:17","slug":"episode-650-dan-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-650-dan-goldman","title":{"rendered":"Episode 650 – Dan Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 650:
\nDan Goldman<\/a><\/p>\n

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“There was something about mortality and sunshine being intertwined that meant RLP had to be set in south Florida.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With RED LIGHT PROPERTIES: Unfinished Business<\/a> (Kinjin Storylab), writer\/cartoonist Dan Goldman<\/a> brings us a wildly entertaining graphic novel of midlife, the afterlife, and the south Florida real estate market. We talk about how the concept for RLP<\/em> grabbed hold of him 20+ years back & never let go, why the story had to take place in\/around Miami, how his work in video games and TV\/movies affected his world-building in comics. We get into the peak life experiences of making this book, the transition from digital to print, why he set the book in landscape, the role of the “invisible” elements of comics design, the impact Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics<\/a> had on him, why the next season<\/a> of Red Light Properties<\/em> \u2014 Gut Renovations<\/em> \u2014 will be “singles, not albums,” how it felt to work with Kickstarter and control every aspect of\u00a0Unfinished Business<\/em>‘ design & production, all while reveling in our shared comic loves. We also discuss turning 50, whether cocaine is ever a good story device, his sensitivity to hauntings, why he needs to quit comics every so often, the effect The Invisibles<\/a><\/em> had on him (esp. Grant Morrison’s letter columns), the paradox of choice and the joy of the analog-hunt, his prose writing and why he tells stories that are 83% true, and plenty more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go get RED LIGHT PROPERTIES: Unfinished Business<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“As a designer, lettering is what moves sound across the page, paces the discussion, and creates sound in the reader’s mind.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n