Sergio Cariello (born April 23, 1964) is a Brazilian-American

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artist. He has done work for many major comic publishers through his career, including

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and

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, as well as popular independent companies like CrossGen Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. He is the younger brother of comics artist Octavio Cariello.

Career

Sergio Cariello knew he wanted to be a cartoonist at age 5. At age 11 he created "Frederico, the Detective," a weekly comic strip for his local paper. He wrote and drew the whole strip himself. It ran until he was 14. Cariello worked on his first comic book, "Dagon, the Worlds of HP Lovecraft," while attending the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. During his second year at the school, Virginia Romita hired him as a Bullpen Letterer at Marvel. While there he was given pencilling assignments on

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and Marvel Comics Presents: Spellbound. When Pat Garrahay moved from Marvel to DC, he offered Cariello pencilling duties on

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. At DC he also did work on Guy Gardner, Steel,

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, The Flash,

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, Blue Beetle,

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, and Azrael, among others. When work slowed down, he got a teaching job at the Kubert School and taught several courses over 7 years. Currently, Cariello is pencilling and inking The Lone Ranger for Dynamite Entertainment. He recently finished the eighth installment of his ''Son of Samson'' series with writer Gary Martin for

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. He has also illustrated ''

The Action Bible ''The Action Bible'' is a retelling of the Christian Bible in comic book form written and edited by Doug Mauss and illustrated by Sergio Cariello for David C. Cook, published in 2010. Andre LeBlanc's 1978 ''The Picture Bible'' was a major influenc ...

'', conceived as an updated version of LeBlanc's ''

The Picture Bible ''The Picture Bible'' is a comic strip telling of the Bible edited by Iva Hoth with illustrations by Andre LeBlanc. It was first published in full colour form by David C. Cook in 1978. LeBlanc's ''The Picture Bible'' was an influence on ''The ...

'' for

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Publishing, which was released on September 1, 2010.

Selected bibliography

A selected bibliography of Sergio Cariello's comics work as interior artist. * ''Batman/Wildcat'' #1-3 (DC Comics, 1997) * ''Catwoman/Wildcat'' #1-4 (DC Comics, 1998) * ''Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight'' #127-131 (DC Comics, 2000) * ''Azrael: Agent of the Bat'' #69-100 (DC Comics, 2000–2003) * ''Crux'' #25, 28-30, 32-33 (CrossGen, 2003–2004) * ''Sojourn'' #34 (CrossGen, 2004) * ''Deathstroke'' #41-51 (DC Comics, 2004–2005) * ''The Lone Ranger'' #0-25 (Dynamite Entertainment, 2006–2011) * ''Son of Samson'' volumes 1-8 (Zondervan, 2007–2010) * ''

'' (David C. Cook Publishing, 2010) * ''The Christ'' (Kingstone Media, 2010) * ''Captain America: Hail Hydra'' #1 (Marvel, 2011) * '' DC Retroactive: Superman - The '80s'' #1 (DC Comics, 2011)

References

External links

Official Website

Official Blog

Sergio Cariello at ComicBookDb.com

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