Joe Chiappetta's Blog

Star Chosen sci-fi novel: 20 Years in the Making

My allegorical sci-fi novel about Christianity in space called "Star Chosen" took 20 years to (finally) bring to completion.

TIMELINE

2005: Started writing Christian sci-fi novel with the initial idea to have the tale be a series of television episodes.

2010: Started releasing story segments, both long and short story arcs.

2025: Finished "Star Chosen" as 340 page novel with 100 illustrations!

Enjoy this spiritual space opera and lively labor of love at https://joechiappetta.blogspot.com/2010/0...

Why I Released 50 NFT Comics on zeroone

Having spent the past 3 decades releasing art on the Internet, it would be an understatement to say that I have tried more than a few different art-related platforms over the years. For most of these websites, they offered timely tools for art marketplace access, publicity, sharing, and exploration. The art site I now prefer, "zeroone," has all that and so much more. As an incredibly visionary art site I have used almost exclusively for the past 10 months, zeroone also offers art ownership, gift...

Mini-Comics Oral History Archives: Joe Chiappetta Interview

Enjoy this funny, educational, and inspiring trip into comics history from the 1980s and 90s as cartoonist and comics champion Tom Hart, of Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), interviews Joe Chiappetta about his early mini-comics publishing adventures! 
Take the journey into never-before revealed comics history at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/90s-mini-comics-oral-hist/episodes/Joe-Chiappetta---90s-Mini-Comics-Oral-History-Archives-e2hu75c/a-ab4p3g1

Video Playlist for ArtVndngMchn Mission Wonderful

Here's a playlist of all the videos highlighting our 2023 art book that reads more like a cutting-edge zine: ArtVndngMchn Mission Wonderful. This playlist includes many in-progress handmade art scenes and some fun promo movies.

To read more about this multi-faceted 88-page fine art on paperback project, including its NFT and digital download components, go to https://joechiappetta.blogspot.com/p/artvndngmchn-mission-wonderful.html

Book & NFT Release: ArtVndngMchn: Mission Wonderful

ArtVndngMchn: Mission Wonderful book cover by Joe Chiappetta
ArtVndngMchn: Mission Wonderful is an 88 page book of inspiration. It's more art-object than book-object, more zine than magazine, and more light than dark.
Always uplifting and avant-garde, ArtVndngMchn: Mission Wonderful features new comics, art, and literature from Southern California to around the world, published and curated by award-winning Silly Daddy cartoonist Joe Chiappetta. 

Available in the following formats:(each sold separa...

Staking Rewards Added to Entire ArtVndngMchn Fine Art NFT Collection

Every NFT from ArtVndngMchn's fine art NFT collection on the WAX blockchain can now be staked for daily crypto rewards!
Detail of First Contact rare digital art by Joe Chiappetta and Fabi Yamada, available in some select ArtVndngMchn Series 3 packs.The is made up of 600 (and counting) unique digital fine art pieces, released in various edition quantities. Some are 1 of 1 editions, some are 1 of 9, etc. These rare digital artworks represent thousands of NFTs from a diverse ...

ArtVndngMchn Collaboration with Pixtalgia Game

The ArtVndngMchn fine art project that I lead has been engaged in very exciting collaboration with the incredibly cool retro PC game, Pixtalgia on the WAX blockchain. The rare digital art shown in the video celebrates the ArtVndngMchn becoming an in-game non-playable interactive character in Pixtalgia and contains unique and original art within art. In fact, there are 10 artworks within this one art piece.

The Pixtalgia ArtVndngMchn is rare digital art by Joe Chiappetta and Peter Pots, availabl...

Macho Motors

Macho Motors by Joe Chiappetta is a rare digital art edition of only 9 NFTs, available on AtomicHub NFT marketplace using the WAX blockchain.BENEDICTION: I charge the people of this earth, drive to be not just another flashy gas guzzler, but a vehicle of positive impact, racing with power, boldness, zeal, directness, and the leadership that God is calling us to embrace along the unpredictable and exciting road of life. 
BACKSTORY: I set out to make an artwork that inspired viewers in multiple way...

The Most Wonderful Impromptu Concert

The Most Wonderful Impromptu Concert is rare digital art by Joe Chiappetta, available as an NFT on OpenSea. My wife and I went on a double date with some friends to see a chamber concert at La Sierra University. As an artist, one of my favorite things to do is go to concerts and draw the performers. However, when we got to the campus concert hall, much to our surprise, the building was mostly unoccupied with few lights on. It soon became clear that I had the wrong date in my calendar. Yet as a m...

Silly Daddy 30th Anniversary

The Most Epic Battle is rare digital art by Joe Chiappetta, available on AtomicHub.Starting July 11th, 2022, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Silly Daddy Comics, Joe Chiappetta begins releasing new rare digital artworks as editions of 30 NFTs for only 30 WAX. Some of Chiappetta's work sells for thousands of dollars in the NFT market, so this anniversary discount is a way to give back to the community.
Shortly after cartoonist Joe Chiappetta became a father, he started publishing a comic book ...