Born in 1910, Chiriaka got a job, painting movie and theater posters for the Associated Display Company in New York City in the early 1930s. Although Esquire initially hired Al Moore to replace Vargas in the late 1940s, it was Chiriaka who took over the magazine's twelve-page calendar from 1953 to 1957 - a great responsibility since the calendar had continued to be the largest-selling and most popular in the world.