Sergio Cariello

Sergio Cariello was born in 1964. He began his career at the age of eleven, writing, drawing, and lettering his own comic strip, Frederico, the Detective, for a local newspaper in Brazil where he also drew political caricatures until the age of fourteen. He dreamed of one day becoming a comic book artist in the United States. He paid his tuition for learning English as a second language with drawings used in their lecturing books. He migrated to the USA in 1985. In 1986, he enrolled as student at the Word of Life Bible Institute in upstate New York, where he also paid some of his tuition fees with drawings and caricatures.

In 1987, he attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoons and Graphic Arts in New Jersey. He worked on his first American comic book, Dagon, for Caliber press, while still a student at the Kubert School. During his second school year, he was hired to letter books for Marvel Comics, and he was quickly moved on to draw some of their main characters such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, and the Avengers. He also illustrated many of DC Comics' characters like Superman, Deathstroke, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Azrael and Batman.

In 1997, Sergio rejoined the Joe Kubert School to teach for seven consecutive years, contributing to produce many of today's leading cartoonists. He later became the first to help Joe Kubert as an instructor for the school's correspondence courses. During this period, he also worked for various publishers, including drawing a monthly title for DC Comics.

In 2005, Sergio joined forces with acclaimed writer Chuck Dixon to launch his first co-creator-owned property, The Iron Ghost, a miniseries published by Image and ATP Comics. Sergio also won First Prize in the First International Christian Comics Competition for No Profit! (a two-page comic based on Ecclesiastes 5). That year, Sergio also illustrated and donated several pages to Tempest, the Hurricane Katrina relief project put together by Community Comics.

Sergio is also known for his run in The Lone Ranger series for Dynamite Entertainment, Crux for Crossgen Comics, The Saints for Layne Morgan Media, as well as many other projects abroad.

Sergio Cariello and his wife, Luzia, live in sunny Florida with their adorable dog, a West Highlander White Terrier, called Monique. They worship with the body of Saints under Pastor Joe Cerreta, where they serve as Director of the Contemporary Praise and Worship Team and Kids' Ministries, respectively.