Graphic novel: 'Red Light Properties'

Artist Dan Goldman hipped us to his newest project, a rollicking tale of a psychedelic ghost-buster...

I wanted to hip all the DoseNation readers to my now-complete online graphic novel Red Light Properties. RLP is the first graphic novel in a longer tropical-horror series about a small Miami Beach real estate office that exorcises ghosts and lists the "previously-haunted homes" to foreclosure victims left homeless by the housing crash.

The firm is run by shaman-schlub Jude Tobin, whose ever-present orange fanny-pack is stuffed with a portable vaporizer and a veritable lab of entheogenic substances to help him enter the spirit world and exorcise lingering spirits... though his necessary daily intake to keep the office in the black puts undue stress on his relationship with his broker/soon-to-be-ex-wife Cecilia and the rest of the people surrounding him on all sides in the living world.

This first volume is a welcome-to-our-fucked-up-lives affair, with a slow build for the characters and the paradigm set-up before the knock-down... but it's also full of the sublime and the satirical, with some nice yiddish flourishes, DMT-riddled psychedelic disintegrations and a sweaty layer of Miami sleaze.