About Me
I Love to draw Comic Books,play the guitar and Worship my Lord with inspiring songs and lead others to worship our God!You can hear some of my songs in my site: www.sergiocariello.com
!Love to watch movies with my wife and friends!Love to go out and socialize with people!Watch Discovery channel and Glorify the Artist of all Artists: Jesus Christ Himself! The One who designed , Created and Planned every being on Earth with its beautiful surroundings!!!I love to encourage people to enjoy life!I love to eat out with friends or have people over to eat some Brazilian Barbacue!!!I love Monique, my dog pet!I was born in Brazil, in 1964. I started drawing as soon as I could hold a pencil. At the age of 5, I already knew I wanted to be a Cartoonist. That's what I told my parents. I drew on Church Bulletins, Napkins and every surface I thought was worthy of my strokes. I made up my own mini comics, with my own characters. I drew all the TV cartoons and comic book characters I liked .At the age of 11, in 1975, I invented Frederico, the Detective for my local newspaper. I did the whole comic strip myself:
story, lettering, pencils and inks. I won the contest the paper put out for kids my age. I had so much fun doing the Strip. I loved the response I got from school. My friends wanted to know what would happen next week on Frederico. It was a weekly strip. Some stories had 2 Chapters, other stories had 4. I did that untill I was 14.
I started having other interests at that age: Girls, beach, working out, guitar playing... but I never stopped drawing. I started drawing Politcal Caricatures for the same paper( Diario De Pernambuco).In 1982, I found an issue of Batman, issue # 350. my eyes popped when I saw the add of a caveman talking to an ugly bird: "Have you heard about it? The Joe Kubert School ?". I knew rightaway that this was the School for me. I started saving money and learning english so I could fulfill my dream. I have been a big fan of Joe Kubert's work since I saw his take on Tarzan.In 1986, while at the Word Of Life Bible Institute, I had my interview with Joe Kubert himself, over the phone. I was so thrilled !!! I was accepted!!!
I won the Dark Horse Scholarship for the second year. Ironically, my brother started working in comics, for the US, before me, even though he was in Brazil. He did a few things for Caliber Press and had mentioned me to them. They contacted me, while I was still in School, to work on Dagon, the Worlds of HP Lovecraft, my first American comic book work. I had a few classmates to help me out on that so we were excused from some homework.
During the second year , at The Kubert School, I heard Marvel Comics was looking for Bullpen Letterers. Nobody at the school seemed interested in that...but I was!!! I took my Hy Eisman's lettering assignments to Marvel and got hired on the spot by Virginia Romita.
At Marvel, I had the chance of showing the editors I could also draw. Based on a caricature I did I got so busy that I had to quit the Bullpen in order to meet my Deadlines in drawing Spider-Man, Avengers, Daredevil and other projects. At DC I had my hand in many characters: Guy Gardner, Steel, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Young Heroes in Love, Blue Beatle, Batman, Azrael and others.
Joe Kubert gladly hired me as an instructer at his school. I taught various courses there for 7 years such as Methods, Basic Drawing, Color,Paste Ups, Story Adaptation, Caricature and Life Drawing.
It has been a fun life, to say the least!!! One of the most rewarding things to me has been seeing some of my students breaking in the business!!! Like the song says: "It's the circle of life!!! A great number of people has helped me to get where I am today...and I believe I have helped a few people to get to higher places too!!!
"What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time,"
( Ecclesiastes 3: 9a )
