Dan Goldman

Daniel Aaron Goldman (born May 11, 1974) is an American writer, artist and producer living in Los Angeles. With a career spanning graphic novels, screenwriting, video games and augmented-reality, he is the creator of critically acclaimed works such as Shooting War, Red Light Properties and the Priya's Shakti series. He is the founder and Narrative Lead of the Los Angeles–based Kinjin Story Lab. Early career Entering the film industry from the last class to graduate from University of Miami's Cinema Arts department before it went digital, Dan moved to New York City with an instantly obsolete analog skill set. After a year working on film sets, he grew all too aware of the long road ahead before anyone would take him seriously as a storyteller. But as an avid comics reader, his attention always returned to those low-budget drawn stories, where he could produce an entire work as writer, director, cinematographer, actor, etc. all completely on his own. He created his first full-length comic Hairkut in 1999, and took it out to the San Diego Comic-Con, where he met many lifelong friends and wound up working for a time in the marketing department of DC Comics while honing his skills as a storyteller. Finding Hyperreal Comics Working as a graphic designer, Dan began experimenting with vector-based design programs and the Wacom Intuos drawing stylus. There he had an epiphany, seeing a new kind of storytelling workflow to create comic narratives digitally. His first night at home with his very own Wacom stylus, he drew until dawn—realizing he could now draw whatever he could write. What began here is a still-continuing investigation into the limits of vector illustration and mixed-media storytelling that resulted in a new style of 100%-digital "Hyperreal Comics" that combined the medium's narrative language with an immersive feel drawing equally on the aesthetics magazine illustrations, cinema production, album artwork and video games.