Silly Daddy Zine #1

My newest book is out now on Ethereum Network!

Available exclusively to owners of this rare digital art, only those who purchase Silly Daddy Zine #1 will gain access to this 50 page book as an unlockable, high resolution PDF download. It has been released as a limited edition of only 10 rare digital books. Through blockchain technology, this means only 10 book art collectors can ever own it at the same time.

I have been in the publishing industry since the mid 1980s and have won awards in cartooning as well as writing, yet this book represents a unique career milestone. Silly Daddy Zine #1 is my 13th book, yet the very first one I have issued on the blockchain. It is 50 full-color pages long, plus a painted cover and back cover. The entire book took over 1 year to create. Think of this museum-worthy volume as part comics, part home-grown magazine, part fine art exhibit, part short story collection, and part experimental coolness. Every page is either a brand new work of fine art or a never before published short story.

This very rare book is entirely a product of California. I started drawing, painting, and writing it using an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil while living in Pasadena, CA. Yet I finished the art book after we moved to Riverside, California, and released it through MakersPlace: a very user-friendly rare digital art market headquartered in San Francisco.

Those who have been following my work a long time know that zines, rare book publishing, and art/writing experimentation are my roots. This new digital book contains an eclectic blend of those elements, and it reads like a lively trip to an unpredictable art happening. The pages of Silly Daddy Zine #1 are new, previously unpublished digital artworks that could stand on their own hanging from a gallery wall, yet are loaded into a book full of concentrated art rarity.

Buy this rare digital book at https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756/75813

FAQs for Silly Daddy Zine #1

1. Why can't anyone preview pages of the book before becoming a potential buyer?

• My preference is that this book/zine be a complete surprise to each person who buys it. I liken it to the early days of the zine scene that I was a part of in the 1980s. It was a time of great creativity and fascination. You'd see one tiny ad or one picture of a zine's cover in a print catalog, read the description, and then order that zine. After a few weeks, the zine would be delivered to you and for the very first time you would find out what was inside. I want to recapture that sense of discovery with Silly Daddy Zine #1. That's why there are no preview pages or review copies that have been sent to anyone.
• Limiting who can see the book to just those who bought it also increases the book's exclusivity and rarity.
• My previous artworks and books have been in circulation and easily accessible on the Internet. In fact, literally hundreds of my previous drawings and artworks can be viewed for free online. Therefore anyone can readily gain a clear idea of what I am about as an artist, writer, and creator through the integrity of my previous works.

2. Since the book title is Silly Daddy Zine #1, does this mean this is the start of a series of Silly Daddy Zines?

• Making a series of unique art zines was the original intent when I started making this book. I really do hope to continue this series.
• However, after finishing every book I have ever released, I always like to take an extended deep breath and just be grateful that I was given the ability to bring the book to completion.
• Therefore I will not make any promises, but continuing this series is a very real possibility.
• Given enough encouragement from collectors of this zine would certainly influence me in a positive way to continue expanding my creativity in the wonderful world of zines.

Zip into the warm and wonderful community zine scene with Silly Daddy Zine #1

Rare Digital Art by Daughter

Sunny Duh-Light is rare digital art by Anna Chiappetta on MakersPlace.

My youngest daughter, Anna, has just released her very first piece of rare digital art on the Ethereum network through the MakersPlace gallery based in San Francisco! Sunny Duh-Light is an animated super rare edition of only one that can be bought with Ethereum. If you are unfamiliar with rare digital art, think cryptocurrency meets collectibles.

We live in sunny Southern California, which explains the artwork's title. I bet you can also identify some of the local desert climate imagery in this cool artwork. Of course as a dad I am very proud of my daughter, and I think this work is quite fantastic. I hope you like it too!

Silly Daddy Site Map

Silly Daddy Site Map by Joe Chiappetta is rare digital art available on MakersPlace.

Almost all of my major (and minor) works of art and writing from this century have been covered on my Silly Daddy website at one time or another. It is a little odd to think about; here I can see what my main interests have been, because we create what we care about. Topics of parenting, sci-fi, faith, crypto-art, comics, surrealism, and family are all there. Much of I have done creatively is packaged in a virtual electronic world connected by wires, airwaves and computer hardware that I cannot begin to understand.

This experimental animation came about while I was making a navigational site map for that website. It was just a bunch of boring text links on a plain page and I really wanted to spice it up with some surreal digital art. However I also wanted the cartoon illustration to have at least something to do with signs and navigational pointers. That way, the artwork would have relevance to the various themes of my work for the past few decades. So after much trial and error, drawing and redrawing, animating, editing, and revising, I finally created the most atypical site map art--at least that I have ever imagined.

Are you a curious navigator looking to see how my Silly Daddy Site Map art fits in with a bunch of website text links?
Then go to https://joechiappetta.blogspot.com/p/site-map.html and cruise around what may be the first site map illustration to be put on a blockchain.

Joe Chiappetta
http://SillyDaddy.net

Once Upon a Time in Pasadena

Once Upon a Time in Pasadena is rare digital art available on MakersPlace.

Once upon a time in Pasadena, I found an American bridge to Mediterranean delights.
I found that every street can be more amazing than the next.
I found that a mountain backdrop makes everything wonderful.

Once upon a time in Pasadena, I found whales of fortune riding waves of home pricing.
I found all that glitters is not gold... it's also wildfire, sushi and real estate.
I found that fancy cars--both old and new--are as common as palm trees.

Once upon a time in Pasadena, I found the earth quake under my feet, and life goes on.
I found that people freak out more over a little rain than they probably should.
I found that persistently pleasant weather is not the best character-builder.

Once upon a time in Pasadena, I found a history of America I never knew.
I found the lure of fame and Hollywood appear to be just a stone's throw away.
I found talented people to be a dime-a-dozen, singing sadder songs than they should be singing.

Once upon a time in Pasadena, I found that rich cities still desperately need God.
I found more homeless people than there should be.
I found humanity.

Once upon a time in Pasadena, I found a man, and his wife, desperately needing God.
I found humility.
I found the real me.

Joe Chiappetta
http://SillyDaddy.net

Victory of the Spiritual Mind

Victory of the Spiritual Mind is rare digital art available on MakersPlace

We all want victory in as many areas of our life as possible. For me, this is especially evident in the things I go to God about in prayer daily. The things I want to gain a victory in are the things I am typically praying about... over and over. Such things have become the themes of this surreal, symbolic digital painting of mine.

Many of these themes are easy to spot in the painting but some may be more subtle, because this particular artwork has paintings within paintings. Therefore I will list the victory-seeking areas I have painted about in this piece of animated art, and I will do so in the form of a prayer:

Dear God, please grant me, my friends, and family great and enduring victory in the realms of faith, servitude, kindness, business, finances, cryptoart, family-building, playfulness, insight, friendships, joy, and peace. Amen!

Joe Chiappetta
http://SillyDaddy.net

Rare Air

Rare Air by Joe Chiappetta is rare digital art on MakersPlace.

I drew most of this during a business trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco--and back again. The purpose of these travels was to educate more people about new opportunities for collecting art on the blockchain. On the way in and out of planes, buses, and airport terminals, I created an experimental animation that portrays the over-stimulating nature of airport travel. The artwork title is “Rare Air,” partly due to this aviation theme, and also because the occasion of my journey was to speak at the Rare Digital Art Feast. That art/tech event was put on marvelously by MakersPlace. It was an uplifting event for all, and to commemorate such a historic happening, I have released this artwork on their fine marketplace as a rare digital art edition of only one.

What is a Rare Digital Art Feast?

Picture stepping in the future while still in the present, and all the while you are having fun, being fed, and having your mind pleasantly stretched along with the boundaries of art through blockchain technology. That's what we call a Rare Digital Art Feast, and such an event happened on June 20th, 2019. Indeed, at their hip work space in San Francisco's legendary Mission District, MakersPlace put on a truly remarkable show.

If the art industry, tech industry, or really any industry wanted to see how to put on an excellent and thorough event, this was the place to be. It was pure joy to experience this hybrid of art exhibit, auction, educational talks, networking, and Q/A sessions... all to the beat of a live DJ and, of course, great food. To craft an event that is both down-to-earth for crypto-art-curious new people yet also inspiring for all, it takes a rare breed. MakersPlace delivered on all counts, and I thank them for it.

As the rare digital art industry grows, I would bet that more of these events will continue to spread around the globe, by the likes of industry leaders including SuperRare, pixEOS, EverdreamSoft, Rare Art Labs, and of course, MakersPlace. If these outings are anything like the first Rare Digital Art Feast put on by MakersPlace, then we can be sure that this movement has a very bright future.

Joe Chiappetta
http://SillyDaddy.net

Feed the Fun House Well

The head is a fun house of fantastical proportions. With the same mind mounted inside, we can imagine plans to save the world or destroy it. I say we save it.

You can find this rare digital art and bid on it in the MakersPlace marketplace.

Joe Chiappetta

Silly Daddy on Pixels

Illustrations and comics from as well as about the entirely innovative pixEOS crypto-art ecosystem

Family comes in many shapes and sizes in my latest piece of digital art. I drew this BeastEOS Family illustration on the pixEOS app. There you can find many little characters I have created, along with all sorts of other pixel art and graffiti from other creators and passing adventurers. As the creator of the long-running Silly Daddy Comics, I often cannot resist to put a family theme into my work. That's why you see in this minimal illustration a little child beast happily following his father beast on the very first giant digital pixEOS canvas.

In fact, my artwork, in the form of comics, animations, and illustrations has been increasingly featured in a number of professional articles directly from the pixEOS crypto-art project. Built on the EOS cryptocurrency network and based on a lot of community feedback, PixEOS already has a fine online art/game/gambling/crypto/graffiti app that is up and running--and incredibly cool. The team has many other great elements for artists and collectors being added to the pixEOS ecosystem soon. It is definitely a project to engage with now, as well as keep a keen eye on for future developments sure to expand the boundaries of art on the blockchain!

Can you spot my artwork in the pixEOS official blog? I am prominently included as one of their illustrators in their articles about the pixEOS Merchandise Shop, as well as an article about general ecosystem updates, and also an article about a cryptographic code-cracking puzzle.

It is very likely that soon you will also see what I would call an epic illustration from me having to do with the pixEOS community. What I consider an epic illustration is a more detailed drawing with many characters in it while also communicating themes on (usually) multiple levels. I do not do epic illustrations every day. Most of my illustrations and comics these days are what I would call brevity illustrations. A brevity illustration is one that has just one or two characters in it and communicates usually only one simple concept. As can be implied from the titles, brevity illustrations usually don't take that long to complete, while epic illustrations take quite a while to finish. Obviously, the above illustration of the BeastEOS Family is a brevity illustration, yet of epic family proportions, right?

Joe Chiappetta
http://SillyDaddy

Unlock the Pulse-Pounding Power of Pixels

The key to fun is to be... a square! In this minimalist art, each pixel has been painstakingly placed to produce the maximum payload for your personal perplexity. For those unfamiliar with this soon-to-be legendary character, Papa Pixel Pinwheeleos can be observed here ascending upward through the 4 colorful corners of his pixelated universe in search of the finest treasures. Surely he will find such things, or cryptographically die trying.

This animation started out as a simple little drawing on the pixEOS art game online. If you are an artist, collector, or art historian, yet you don't know about pixEOS, you are missing out on some of the wildest stuff happening in the art industry--sure to expand the very boundaries of what art is, as well as how art is made. Shortly after I started drawing it, I quickly had in mind that this surreal creature would be a perfect character to animate as crypto-art. And the rest is pixel history.

At least it is history for this particular finished piece. Since I often like to make variations on a theme when creating my artwork, the character depicted in this animation will be getting some more exposure in at least one other piece of art. I have plans to create and release a new image of this little creature, but with some significant modifications to the pinwheel blades on his hat as well as a complete overhaul of the color scheme and an entirely new background. Perhaps when I have completed the new version, we can view them side by side and see which one is most preferred. Or perhaps I won't compare the two versions. My hope is that they will each be completely unique and able to stand on their own, or at least float on their own through pleasant pixel pastures.
Joe Chiappetta

Rare Digital Art: A Mother's Love

A mother's love is so rewarding. It is healing, protecting, warm, watchful, and priceless. While scores of people wonder when the next big investment will rise all the way to the moon, we must never forget that in most healthy cases, a mother's love goes to the moon--and far beyond. That is certainly the case for my own dear mother, as well as my wife for our children.

You can buy this piece of rare digital art at https://cryptographics.app/cryptographic/136 using Ethereum. It is a super rare edition of only one issuance. I made it recently and it is one of my personal favorites.

Joe Chiappetta

Animated Silly Daddy Comic Splash

WATCH MY MOVIE... Fun animation for the whole family. Silly Daddy, the long running indie "Family Circus" comic series is now a silly cartoon, at least for 26 seconds.

The most remarkable thing about this musical adventure video is not the cutting-edge animation. Rather it is the fact that the dialog from this cartoon actually happened between me and my son Luke a few years back when he was three. However, the indoor cannonball maneuver is fiction.

This is animation from the other family guy, the less offensive one. The cartoon "Comic Splash" could be considered the very first complete Silly Daddy animation because I started it in 2004 but didn't add the audio until this year. Why the three year gap in between completion? I was at first concerned that Disney, Pixar and Big Idea might copy my state-of-the-art animator techniques, but now I just don't care.

One day my little son was running around in circles with more energy than usual (which is a lot). He was even jumping on furniture, so I asked him, "Who wound you up?"

He replied, "Uh, Jesus!" with a big smile and kept on running.

That conversation actually happened, as i mentioned earlier. However, the rest of the cartoon I elaborated because I had a fun sketch of Luke sitting on an extra-tall fancy chair at the Nordstrom store in Chicago. I though it would be neat to have him jump off the chair as a stunt and into a pool of water, so that's what I animated.

This entire short movie was done in the Chiappetta studio by myself and my team of child laborers working for under minimum wage. I asked my daughter Maria if she could use the internet piano to make some background music, but she said she had learned something better in high school singing class. So she sang the background music and did an incredible job. Leave a comment and let me know what you think of this cartoon.

I was going for an old-school, homegrown B-Movie effect with the animation style. Watch this funny cartoon of a kid doing a cannonball maneuver.

Animation by Joe Chiappetta. Voices by Joe and Luke Chiappetta. Music by Maria Chiappetta

Directed by Joe Chiappetta, 2007 in Macromedia Flash 4. Thanks to Mike Rende, another silly daddy for giving me that software for free.

Silly Daddy Graphic Novel 2004

Order the only graphic novel that crosses Peanuts with Van Gogh to represent the true story of an ultra-intense artist/modern-day family man.
254 page graphic novel
Published June 2004. Softcover comic book. ISBN 1-59429-019-9

Signed by cartoonist Joe Chiappetta with an original sketch inside!

This epic story is the Family Circus of independent autobiographical comics. Imagine Van Gogh with a wife and kid today: that's Silly Daddy. Parenting has rarely been more profound. Joe Chiappetta's autobiographical search for the meaning of life turns up surreal truths and belly laughs. He's an untamed artist, a devoted father, and a confused husband. They take MasterCard, not masterpieces at the grocery store: an economic reality that sends him reeling. If you've ever felt like flunking out of the middle class and family time is running out, this book is for you. Fourteen years in the making, Silly Daddy is the true life story that captures the struggles and victories of what it means to give life your all and come up short. Illinois cartoonist Joe Chiappetta turns autobiographical storytelling into a family odyssey of road trips, break-ups, romance, sci-fi adventure, big laughs, deep thoughts, and redemption.

Originally serialized and nominated for four awards, the Silly Daddy independent comic book series gathered international acclaim and a Xeric Award. This 254 page book contains a never before published ending and follows his daughter Maria from birth through age twelve. These father/daughter adventures throughout the years are whimsical and wacky, heartbreaking and hilarious. See Silly Daddy have conflicts with the cops, battle cars from his bicycle, almost die in a mountain climb, offend meat eaters, bureaucrats, big shot comic book distributors, and even his own family, all with relative ease. The cast of supporting characters ranges from out-of-this-world heroes (Psycho Child), to love interests who are so real you think you already know them.
This is a backstage pass to marriage, divorce, the singles scene, the artist scene, and that all important scene that a man should never be cut from: the fatherhood scene.

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Silly Daddy FAQ

"From the original Silly Daddy comic book series that began in 1991, what issues are compiled in the 2004 Silly Daddy graphic novel?

Issues #1-3, 5, 7, 9-12, 15, 19, new transition pieces, new ending arc, as well as portions of #4, 8, 14, 16-18, 20, and 22.

"Does the book read more like a novel, or like a collection of unrelated short stories?"

The Silly Daddy graphic novel reads like a novel. It's a huge family epic with the underlying theme of rebellion/redemption.

"Are the previously published pages in the new Silly Daddy graphic novel reprinted as is?"

No. Most of the previously published pages in the Silly Daddy graphic novel have been revised by Joe Chiappetta to tighten the continuity of this 13 year project. In fact, many of the original art pages challenge the very fabric of White-Out. Another noteworthy change is that one of the original Silly Daddy issues (#11) was drawn in shaded pencil only, but was originally printed in a way that did not capture this shaded artistic detail. In this 2004 edition, the fully shaded details will be reproduced with higher quality printing to reveal aspects of the story never before seen outside of the family basement art studio.

Silly Daddy has been described as everything from "Autobiographical non-fiction" (Calvin Reed, Publisher's Weekly), to "Crude, but amazing" (Dave Sim, Cerebus).

Sub-themes in Silly Daddy graphic novel include:
- Parenting Without a Net
- I Was A Former Vegetarian
- Left-Handed Italian Artists Are Supposed To Be Great
- The Independent Comics Scene At The End Of The 20th Century
- What Art Schools Don’t Want You To Know
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Redemption

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Top 10 Reasons Why Silly Daddy & Other Joe Chiappetta Comics Are Worth Reading

1) Quentin Tarantino's mother has read Silly Daddy and collects his artwork. Silly Daddy has all the elements for a great movie.

2) Silly Daddy appeals to a wide audience. Most people have parents, or are parents. Half of all marriages end in divorce similar to Silly Daddy's chronicling. The book includes elements that appeal to anarchists, Christians, artists, sci-fi fans and suburban housewives.

3) Silly Daddy fits with current media trends. Reality TV is still the rage, and the art as well as autobio story of the book give the reader the feeling that he/she is watching the illustrated scenes from a "hidden camera" stationed in Joe's life.

4) The "A Death in the Family" sequence illustrates and plays to Americans' worst fears of loss of privacy and freedom.

5) Silly Daddy addresses the causes and effects of the important societal concerns of unplanned parenthood, parenting failures, divorce, and their effect on the individual as well as society at large, plus solutions on how to overcome.

6) Joe's life story makes for a naturally interesting interview. What could be more captivating than an interviewer talking to an eccentric artist who is a former rebel, and current born again Christian with a day job working to help adults with mental disabilities find jobs.

7) The books are full of local color which will easily appeal to Chicagoans and urban folks.

8) Joe's current day job requires him to pitch an idea to roomfuls of people on a regular basis and even make occasional TV appearances describing the employment of people with disabilities. Chiappetta's appeal is that of a regular American working class guy that God has put in a remarkable place.

9) Public attention has recently been caught by the book The Starter Marriage. Silly Daddy gives a bird's eye view into the Gen X phenomena. The success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding demonstrated Americans interest in entertaining ethnic anecdotes. Silly Daddy boasts several funny Italian-American experiences and characters. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has brought renewed attention to the debate over Christianity, a theme consistent in Silly Daddy and Joe Chiappetta's other comic books.

10) They're already studying Joe in college! Silly Daddy was the topic of a PhD candidate's paper and presentation at a conference on Arts and Culture in Florida. Also as one of the pioneers of the Independent Comics Movement of the 1990s, Chiappetta's work has a lasting place in comics history.