I Hear Your Heartbeat

Ink pens and markers on 4.5" x 3.5" paper by Joe Chiappetta 2008, colored by Denise Chiappetta

As I leaned in close to my three year old daughter, I said, "I can hear your heartbeat."

"What's it saying?" she asked.

Not Steroids

"Steroids?" exclaims a hulking looking figure, who also happens to be covered in molten lava. "I'm not on steroids. I'm just a mutant."

Digital drawing in Adobe Illustrator on computer by Joe Chiappetta 2009

You Can Write

I said to my friend while holding a near complete manuscript up to him, "I'm putting the finishing touches on my novel!"

"What is that?" asked my friend.

"It's my full-length science fiction novel," I replied with pride.

"You can write?" asks the friend, with great surprise.

This webcomic is true in the sense that I am near finished with the final draft of the science fiction novel. Whether or not the final product will be ready by the end of this year--that I am unsure of.

If you are guessing that the sci-fi novel took longer than this webcomic to create, move to the head of the space academy.

Digital drawing on HP computer in Inkscape art program by Joe Chiappetta 2009

Wisecracker

"I think he's drawing you on his Pocket PC," said a friend of mine to his wife while having dessert at Baker's Square with my wife and I.

His wife replied, "Oh great. It will probably crack his little computer screen."

She is a born wisecracker.

Ipaq Pocket PC drawing in Mobile Painting program, edited in Adobe Illustrator by Joe Chiappetta 2009. I actually started this in 2005. The couple in the drawing is a portrait of Tom and Cynthia Neal.

Overweight Man Comes to Huge Conclusion

Telephomic (digital comic drawn on a mobile phone) by Joe Chiappetta 2009 in Vectorsoft Draw program.

An overweight man comes to a huge conclusion; "I should have had a salad."

Pride of the Dance

A couple is dancing when the man says, "That is what I call some great dancing."

The woman replies in a cute and humble voice, "Thanks."

The man clarifies, "I was actually talking about my moves."

Animation in Flash on computer by Joe Chiappetta 2009. The images in this animated piece are actually acrylic paintings I did in college decades ago at a bar called "The Jungle" in DeKalb while I was a student at Northern Illinois University.