christopher started his art career with commercial art in california. his first work was for cbs records. he received a gold record for his work on promotional posters. he also worked for motor trend magazine. in 1981 he moved to new york city, and worked for the new york times, people, fortune and wall street journal, as well as a courtroom artist for cbs news, covering trials as diverse as john lennon's shooter and "the diet doc killer" jean harris.