17/06/2024
🦇It's time to introduce to all of you out there the biggest part of our team creators at - Joseph Vargo & Christine Filipak! 🦇
⚜️Joseph Vargo has been bringing his original and compelling creations to life through a wide variety of media for two decades. This world-renowned fantasy artist is truly a Renaissance man, with talents that encompass artwork, music, and literature. His gothic visions open a gateway to the darkside and dare the viewer to venture within. His chilling, mist-shrouded world of forlorn ghosts, brooding vampires, living gargoyles and other creatures of the night have earned him an immense and loyal following, with fans reaching from every corner of the globe.
⚜️His publishing company Monolith Graphics, launched in 1991, celebrated its 30 year anniversary in 2021. A world leader in gothic-themed products, Monolith has numerous clients across the US and in over a dozen other nations throughout the world. Their extensive dark product line offers books, magazines, calendars, t-shirts, posters, tarot decks, and music cds.
⚜️Christine Filipak combines a subtle blend of fine art techniques and digital wizardry to create elegant and timeless imagery. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kent State University and professes to be a voracious bookworm with a deep fascination for ancient cultures and historical horror novels. In 1992, she joined Monolith Graphics as art director and production manager, and throughout the years she has also taken on the roles of business manager and media coordinator for everything that Monolith Graphics produces.
⚜️Christine's talents are utilized in the graphic design, layout and pre-press production of everything Monolith publishes. Her other credits include co-writing and co-editing the gothic anthology Tales From The Dark Tower, as well as creating and managing the various Monolith Graphics and Nox Arcana web sites. In 2003, Christine created and produced the lush artwork for Madame Endora's Fortune Cards for which she cites Alphonse Mucha, master artist of the Art Nouveau movement, as her primary inspiration.