Snowy Daddy

Walking into a bedroom, my daughter said to my wife one morning, "It smells like snow in here."

"Why?" asked my wife while resting on the bed, "Because the sheet has a snowman print on it?"

"Yes," replied my daughter naturally.

Thanks go to my wife for telling me this chilly, yet warming tale. I almost called it "Chilly Daddy," but maybe I'll save that for another webcomic.

Telephomic by Joe Chiappetta 2009, drawn on Verizon XV6900 Windows Mobile Pocket PC phone, created in Conduits Pocket Artist program.

Silly Daddy Gets the Mark of Cain

"Daddy, Look!" said little Clementine to her father Apple. "You have the mark of Cain--just like in the Bible."

"Son, this is only a Pac-Man tattoo," replied the father.

The apple in this photo actually had a real mark on it just like Pac-Man. It got that way when I put a green apple on top of a hot cup of tea in the morning and left it there for a few minutes.

Nevertheless, a juicy and unsolved mystery involves how the clementine suddenly grew cartoon eyeballs.

Also surprising was when I bit into the apple later; I distinctly heard the Pac-Man theme song.

With certainty I can say that this is the best webcomic I ever ate.

For those wondering what the mark of Cain is, see Genesis 4:15.

This image is a telephomic and a fumetti by Joe Chiappetta 2009. It was created on a Verizon XV6900 Windows Mobile Phone, with photo edited in Conduits Pocket Artist program.

Silly Daddy Chalk Gear

Hours after a bike ride, I did not have the nerve to tell my daughter that she doesn't need a bicycle helmet to draw on the sidewalk with chalk.

I took a photo of her with my new Windows Mobile phone, but it was so new that I hadn't even taken the protective plastic covering off of the phone camera lens. Therefore, since the photo turned out dull and fuzzy, I decided to turn the image into a webcomic.

Telephomic on Verizon XV6900 Pocket PC phone by Joe Chiappetta 2009. Digital photo edited in Conduits Pocket Artist program.

Silly Daddy Birthday Again

Digital comic drawn on Samsung Ultra Mobile PC in ArtRage program by Joe Chiappetta 2009, colored by Joe and Anna Chiappetta

When my oldest daughter turned eighteen, I said to my youngest daughter, "It's your sister's birthday today!"

With great surprise, my toddler replied, "Again???"

Having daughters is one of the most amazing components of my entire life!

Science Fiction Novel Almost Finished after 4 Years

Ink pens and markers on 8.5 x 5.5" paper by Joe Chiappetta 2009

"After four years, I finally finished my science fiction novel," I said to my daughter while holding up a near final draft copy of the book.

"So..." replied my toddler daughter, "potty training only took me three years."

The novel is now about 62,000 words long and counting.

I promise that the cover of the novel will not be as lame as the cover I depicted in the above Silly Daddy gag comic. The real cover illustration is coming along nicely. It's an action scene from a pivotal space attack from about the middle of the book. The cover layout is somewhat reminiscent of the cover from "Silly Daddy: A Death in the Family," my very first full length science fiction story from the late 1990s.

The pages of the book are going through a final proofreading phase now. In fact, a character from my recent comics, "Silly Sister," AKA Lisa Fellis, is one of those people proofreading it. Keeping the theme of the book optimistic (which is not the norm for science fiction) was a lot easier to maintain while I worked on the story provided my general attitude about life maintained a hopeful and grateful stance in day to day vision.

Many writers and artists, not just science fiction authors, escape to a dream world and reinvent the universe in their image rather than tackle tough issues of relevance. I know I have been guilty of doing this many times in a number of past Silly Daddy plot lines that I have written. It has been pretty refreshing with the science fiction book to take the optimistic approach and yet maintain a potent level of conflict therein. I have been refining the story and weaving futuristic solutions into modern-day problems. A great deal of allegory is in there on a deep level. Yet if you're not into all that, it also reads well as a straight futuristic epic too. Either way, I do hope you like the book when it's ready. Send me an email if you want to receive updates on the sci-fi novel.

Yoda Doing Yoga

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

"Daddy, you should make a Star Wars comic of Yoda doing Yoga. Would that be a good comic?" asks my son.

"Definitely," I replied, "and I'll have him eating yogurt."

Staying Fit in the Hood

Ink pens and markers on 5.5" x 4" paper by Joe Chiappetta 2008, colored by Denise Chiappetta

"I like a woman who knows her gang signs," says a streetwise fellow to a pretty young woman crossing her arms gracefully.

"This is just yoga," replies the woman.

Disclaimer: In actuality, I have no knowledge of gang signs or yoga. Laugh at your own risk.