Shooting War’s Dan Goldman’s Other Life

July 11th, 2006 by Larry Smith

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The comic news hub Newsarama profiles a hot new talent emerging in the comic world, Shooting War’s own illustrator and co-conspirator, Dan Goldman. Before we hijacked Goldman, he was and still is the co-founder of the online comic collective ACT-I-VATE, where his serialized comic Kelly—a surreal Craiglist roommate thriller—has a hot and bothered and always hungry fan base. What’s next when he’s released from the clutches of SMITH, writer Anthony Lappe, and the complicated Jimmy Burns? Dan lays it out to Newsarama’s Chris Arrant:

I’m also co-creating a new comic called 718 with Chris Radtke. 718 is a guy who’s burned his Social Security card and reinvented himself as the superhero 718, the “Soul of the Outer Boroughs.” Taking on the dark forces of greed and despair billowing out from the center of Manhattan, 718 lives cash-free by his wits and reputation alone on the psychedelic ghetto outskirts of the greatest city on earth. An internet star and conspiracy-battling psychic-soldier for the universal enlightment, 718 fights for our collective freedom from the invisible yokes of our fattened lives of credit-slavery and media-manipulation in the Modern World. … 718 is going to be both urban grit and ghetto-voodoo-supernatural, looking at New York City through the blood in the streets and the pigeons overhead.

Knowing Dan, he’ll do it all with a big, goofy smile on his face.
To Dan, we say: congrats & mazel tov & nameste, we are proud to work with you.
To readers, we say: you’re witnessing the birth of a great artist, right here. And he’s wearing a groovy shirt.

 
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