Time for some comics news and for some HOT off the presses preview pages for Dan Goldman’s Red Light Properties from the newly launched Kinjin Storylab!
Coincidentally, Kinjin Storylab was also founded by Goldman, who had this to say about the project:
“The dirtiest word in the English language right now is ‘content’ because we’ve watched it flatten Art into a market-first product to be monetized. I don’t believe this is what people want at all: stories that should shift hearts and move culture are instead optimized for algorithmic recs and product funnels. We need to feel raw, messy emotional truth to make sense of our own lives and connect to others—
I founded Kinjin Storylab as a push-back to this. By harnessing the early internet’s tools like newsletters and webcomics and print books, we are here to take big swings, tell uncompromising stories, and draw in readers hungry to engage with something true.”
That quote struck a Beatles “A Day In The Life” level chord with me; it really says a lot about how I’ve been feeling regarding popular culture right now. Everything that’s mass-produced for popular consumption is just so boring. It’s almost impossible for me to tell lately if I’m enjoying something or I’m just grateful for the distraction.
Which brings us to the Eisner-nominated Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business and the launch of its deluxe hardcover and slipcase editions. Peep this press release!
Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business follows Jude and Cecilia as they navigate the supernatural wreckage of family, capitalism, psychedelia, memory, and the emotional debris people leave behind after they die. The series was first introduced in 2010 as a web comic on Tor.com before launching through Kickstarter in 2025, where it was recognized as a “Project We Love.”
Via Kinjin Storylab, Goldman invites readers to follow along as the stories unfold from episode drops to bingeable arcs, before collecting them into meticulously designed hardcover and slipcase editions with an immersive, psychedelic visual identity.
This inaugural publication also marks the first Eisner nomination for Kinjin Storylab, recognizing that the physical book is part of the storytelling itself, with the edition designed to transport the reader into the world of Red Light Properties.
Written, illustrated, designed, and published by Goldman, Red Light Properties is a sun-bleached, trippy tropical horror where reported hauntings are rising faster than the property values, and only the Psychedelic Shamanism of a tiny Miami Beach real estate agency stands against the evils of late-stage American capitalism.
In a tourist trap where every listing hides a ghost story, Red Light Properties blends legit scares with humor, heart, and satire to tell a slow-burn epic that occupies a space all its own. Reflecting Kinjin Storylab’s ethos, it’s a design-forward series built for readers of mature graphic novels, psychedelic and visionary art books, and anyone drawn to sharp, character-driven narratives.
Jude Tobin is a psychic who sees ghosts. His realtor wife Cecilia, sees an opportunity. As Red Light Properties, he exorcises haunted homes across South Florida, then she sells them at a discount to renters shut out of the housing market. They’re using shamanism to carve their own niche in the real estate market while hacking it for the rest of us.
But after six years of struggling to keep their business afloat and raise their son, their marriage is starting to buckle. In the spirit world, Jude is peerless, getting unquiet ghosts to move on, but here in reality, Cecilia’s stuck running literally every other goddamn aspect of their business that drains them both of every drop of lifeforce.
What was their shot at the American Dream now feels like a curse, unraveling listing by listing, while around them, sea levels rise, the economy is tanking, the rich get greedier, and somehow, Miami feels more haunted than ever before.
Dan Goldman said,“Seeing Unfinished Business’ pub design get recognized by the Eisner committee validates the giant leap of faith I took in launching Kinjin Storylab. As an artist with two decades of experience working across multiple media, comics remain the perfect synthesis of everything I love. If this is how an auteur without creative obstacles can shine… it feels like a big win for DIY publishing.”
Goldman’s work moves fluidly between horror and humor, surrealism and emotional realism, building immersive worlds filled with damaged people, ghosts, spiritual static, and moments of unexpected vulnerability. His multidisciplinary practice spans comics, prose, video games, and audio, with credits including Chasing Echoes (Humanoids), the UN-honored Priya’s Shakti, the Shooting War (Grand Central), and writing for projects including Silent Hill: Ascension, The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, Cartoon Network’s Mega Man: Fully Charged, and Ubisoft’s The Division: Resurgence.
For readers drawn to immersive horror, Santería, and emotionally grounded supernatural storytelling, Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business is now available at https://shop.kinjin.co/.
The 2026 Eisner Award winners will be announced at San Diego Comic-Con International on Friday, July 24.
It also brings me great pleasure to share these EXCLUSIVE preview pages and a synopsis from Red Light Properties: Gut Renovations:
With the exorcism business finally picking up after RLP’s hard-won partnership with one of Miami’s largest real estate developers, the Tobins are served with letters from Turi’s elementary school. Apparently he’s been… I mean bro, do you really want me to spoil it? Waiting in the wings are dozens of hauntings, old friends, new enemies, and massive revelations as the entire takes a shuddering leap forward.
Dan Goldman said, “Drawing these pages—my first proper Red Light Properties comics since 2014—was surreal. Especially after all the energy I put into creating and Kickstarting the hardcover, fulfilling orders, I got to come home to this world again. You know when you see a best friend again after a few years, and it feels like you hung out last week? It was just like that… plus, for the characters, only a week has passed since the end of UNFINISHED BUSINESS. So, just like that, Red Light Properties came back.”
Check out the pages below!
