Christian Mirra  was born in Benevento, Italy on the 14/6/77. He took a Bachelor Degree in Politics in Napoli, but he was always drawing in class.

In 1999 he left Italy and went to Barcelona where he spent 6 years studying Illustration, Flash animation, and Graphic Design, and perfecting his Spanish, Catalan and English.

Then he moved to Amsterdam where he kept a double job as a Graphic Designer and a Cartoonist. That meant sometimes working 7 days per week, but it was fine since Dutch weather was always rainy.

He worked as a Creative Designer for Commodore Gaming, cooperating with leader firms of the videogaming world, such as Electronic Arts, Nintendo, CCP, THQ, GOA, Ubisoft.

Meanwhile Christian kept working on his comic projects in his free time.

His first Graphic Novel, Quella notte alla Diaz was published on February 2010 by Ugo Guanda Editore, one of the main Italian publishers. The first edition of the book, consisting of 2000 copies, was over in the first month and was reprinted in April 2010. It is known to have sold over 3000 copies to the date.

Several publishers took interest in Christian's work and he has published many comics, in Italy as well as Netherlands and Australia. So Christian left his double job, went back to live in Barcelona and dedicated fully to illustration and comics.

Currently he works for the magazines "Mamma!" and "Lens Forward" and still accepts occasional freelance jobs as an illustrator, animator and/or designer.

He is glad to do a job he loves, but he has realized he also needs to do some extra activity a part of working. For instance, eating sometimes or having a glass of water.

He enjoys the sun of Spain and seems to have found an healthy balance between his customers, his comic projects, yoga, pingpong, fiestas and tapas.

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