Joe Chiappetta
Autor de Silly Daddy
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Créditos de la imagen: Author and cartoonist Joe Chiappetta, 2010
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- Joe Chiappetta is an American author and cartoonist, grateful to be married with three children. Currently living in Illinois, his formal education was from Northern Illinois University, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with an emphasis in painting.
While trained in the more traditional arts, his lifetime creative focus has been in writing and cartooning. As one of the key members of the Independent Comics Movement of the 1990s, Chiappetta’s work is respected around the globe. He is best known as the man behind one of the longest running autobiographical comics, SILLY DADDY, which has been a rewarding creative endeavor since 1991. The series has received the following professional recognition: Xeric Award Winner, Ignatz Award Nominee for Outstanding Story, and Harvey Award Nominee for Best New Series.
Joe is also the author of a number of action-packed and thought-provoking Christian sci-fi novels, most notably: Star Chosen (2010). From his work, one can tell that he enjoys spending time with God, family, science fiction, and corny jokes. Also, at a moment's notice, he's usually up for a Bible study, a good game of chess, bike riding, building forts in the woods, wrestling, finding a big score of free samples while grocery shopping, and foam sword fighting.
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Silly Daddy por Joe Chiappetta
Anyone who was paying attention to self-published comics in the '80s knows about Silly Daddy, but I wasn't and I picked up the whole thing at once, which was pretty intense. Back in the days when an autobiographical comic was still a novelty, Chiappetta started doing some little stories about his daughter and his young marriage. The latter quickly fell apart and it became a story about divorce and unwelcome self-awareness. Harvey Pekar is an obvious reference but Pekar and Chiappetta didn't have a lot in common, besides being kind of hard to live with. Silly Daddy is weird and lonesome and often silly, and as Chiappetta gradually learned how to draw, the words and pictures played together unpredictably to very good effect. Toward the end of the first part (originally collected as The Long Goodbye), his stream of consciousness took an odd turn as he started rewriting his present and future in fantasy terms; for a while, Joe and his daughter became nomads in a scary but playful future world, in which his bizarre visuals really took off. That was followed by further solid stories about Joe and his friends; then a pause, during which he became a born-again Christian. He tried briefly to revive the comic in terms of his new interests-- not very successfully, but I still think whatever Chiappetta does is pretty interesting and I'd like to see more.… (más)
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I wrote a fast and fun futuristic romp, heavy on space romance gone bad, raygun battles, and revenge vs. forgiveness. My wife at first said it needed more emotional expression from the main character, a woman named Pamma. I added this in a 2nd draft, so then and only then did my wife like the book.
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