I Had Just Enough Ego To Think That I Might Be The First…
Yesterday, I gave a little more details in to the motivations of my creating a webcomic. I honestly thought I’d hit on a new idea: chronicling, with sequential art, the life of a dad and his family. However, in my quest to find knowledge and inspiration, I Googled ‘Daddy Webcomic’, and the screen filled with hits from a site called sillydaddy.net.
I am not alone.
Silly Daddy was/is created by Joe Chiappetta of North Riverside, Ill. I found some interesting facts about Silly Daddy over at the Geek To Me blog at chicagonow.com:
- Silly Daddy is the longest running comic about a family by a father. (It hit it’s 500th comic in November.)
Mr. Chiappetta is continuously exploring new tools for the trade, consistently using a Pocket PC to create his comics, as well as being the first cartoonists to explore comics made on a mobile phone, calling them ‘telephonics’.- Every comic at Silly Daddy is fully accessible to the blind or those with low vision. Every comic posted has described narrative that assistive technology software such as JAWS or ZoomText can read to the viewer.
I would like to take the time to thank Mr. Chiappetta for being a pioneer not only in webcomics, but in the world of dads chronicling their lives online! I hope I am worthy of crawling in your shadow, sir.
One more sidenote on Joe Chiappetta, he has also written an all-ages space opera called ‘Star Chosen’. Check it out!
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Twitter: CK_Lunchbox
says:
You’re still going to do your comic too right?
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Of course I am! This actually kind of fuels my fire. It’s just like blogging: there are millions of blogs out there, but what makes yours stand out? I still think I’ve hit on a great idea, and nothing would stop me now!
Twitter: bloggerfather
says:
It looks awesome. (And good luck to you too.)
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Glad to know that I can still look forward to your comic version of fatherhood and family! I live a hop, skip and a jump from North Riverside, Il. Joe Chiapetta’s name sounds familiar, too. I’m going to click on the links you gave and discover a little more about this guy. In the mean time, have fun and good luck!
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