It all started from a wild and vivid imagination…

As a child, Christopharo would see visions of strange creatures and events that some would consider supernatural and others believed was the product of an overactive imagination. Perhaps it was a little of both. Regardless, to this day, Christopharo’s imagination still runs wild, but it’s typically restricted to the confines of his lucid dreams or the stories and artworks he creates.

Christopharo’s imagination guided him through an adventurous career, in which he became a professional artist in the entertainment industry. He contracted his services to various movie studios, tv networks, and other exciting companies. For a time, he was even an illustrator at a toy company where he worked on comic books and action figures.

After his experience in the toy and product industries, he decided to design and develop his own toy line based on his love for fantasy and arcade machines. However, after numerous rejections from various companies (due to cost restrictions), he considered trying a different approach. Christopharo thought that it would be fun to make the driving concept behind my toy line into a short story. And this is how Christopharo went from illustrator to author, because the short story he intended to write turned out not to be that short after all. The story (titled Arcade Dawn) has expanded to a series of books—and has proved to be one of the most difficult ventures Christopharo has embarked on.

As a child Christopharo loved hearing and telling stories. But he found drawing and painting were a much simpler way for him to tell his stories than to write them. This is because he struggled (and still struggles) with Dyslexia, ADHD, and other unsavory things that made it extremely difficult to write. And so, the visual arts were his creative outlet. It wasn’t until after he graduated high school, when personal computers became more accessible that Christopharo began dabbling into writing. That was because Christopharo still had a void to fill from an almost all consumable passion that drove him to create. Christopharo had stories in his head that had to be told. That’s why much of Christopharo’s work revolves around passion and how it drives people. That same passion arguably stems from Christopharo’s struggle to overcome his neurodivergence, but also because he comes from a family of crazy Italians and he’s a Pisces sign on the cusp of Aries.

Changing careers from illustrator to independent writer and artist has been a rewarding challenge for Christopharo. Perseverance, word processors, family support, and mental health care have been instrumental in Christopharo’s success in writing.

Much of Christopharo’s fantasy art and stories revolve around the human condition with themes of love, diversity, equality, mental illness, self-discovery, and self-empowerment.

Christopharo currently lives in Rialto, California with his beautiful wife and son. He is currently writing and illustrating a new romantasy series called Arcade Dawn & the Curse of Redgrave that is scheduled to be published this fall of 2024.