Born in Rome in the year 1975, she studies at Liceo Artistico Sant'Orsola, where she gets a degree in 1994, then she kept to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti (painting) and specialize at the Scuola romana dei fumetti. She started a sport career as an horserider when she was a teenager, but had to quit at 20 due to an accident [1]. Her love for comics and Disney classic animation, and the discovery of Manga as Video Girl Ai of Masakazu Katsura[2] are part of her decision to build a career in comics and figurative arts; she then develops her oen style as a graphical mix between realistic and Manga elements.[3]
Her first steps in the comicbook world happend in 1999, with the self-publication of the first book of Rigel, an urban fantasy adventure of a contemporary vampire. After three number plus the spin-offTinebra[4], she stops to self publish and co-produce a new comicbook with Rock'n'Comics, the prototype of the soon to follow comicbook Luna, then starts immediately to publish with Panini Comics a four number short series (each one composed of 96 pg.) named Rigel Interlunium (2001), a remake/restyling of Rigel and Tinebra[2] with the help of Fabrizio Palmieri for parts of the screenplay. In the same working period she creates and works on Luna, published by Star Comics[5], followed by two episodes for the magazine Piccoli Brividi in 2002[6], where she works as penciler, inker and colorist. From 2006 she then creates one-shot of Rigel for magazines as Concrete and Vampiri published by Absoluteblack[7] then a new monographic one shot adventure for Cartoon Club in occasion of the RiminiComix comics festival Gioco di Sangue[8] per la fiera Riminicomix[9], and after this she kept working and drawing for Star Comics and Red Whale[1].
In 2011 she works as cover artist for the USA poetry magazine Mythic Delirium[10]. In October 2012, Panini Comics re-prints for the thirs time "Rigel-Interlunium", this time in a variant-deluxe edition[11], adding 16 new story pages and covers.[12] In November 2014, a new monographic book of 144 pages with the new adventures of her character Rigel (fumetto) is been published: called "Rigel: Anedonia" published again for Panini Comics: is a reboot of the character, ready for a new course of adventures.[13][14]In 2013 she works on a full series of realistic portraits of the german band members of Rammstein for an article written by Roberto Recchioni and published on the supplement XL ofLa Repubblica.[15].
In 2015 she works as illustrator for the book of short novels Storie di Gatti: Nuovi racconti a quattro zampe (Buck e il Terremoto Vol. 2)[16].
From 2017 she works with the writer Velma J. Starling, creating covers and internal illustrations for her fantasy saga The Silent Force.[17] In January 2015 she is in the group of artists who express solidarity to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack; her contribution is still visible in the website Lo Spazio Bianco[18].
Valentina Semprini, Chiamateli fumetti: le contaminazioni di Rigel. Su: Fumo di China n. 73, Cartoon Club Editore, novembre 1999, p. 11.
Dario Morgante, Non possiamo che essere indipendenti. Su: Annuario del Fumetto 2000, Cartoon Club Editore, 2000, pp. 40-42.
Sergio Rossi, La narrativa fantasy a fumetti in Italia. Su: Annuario del Fumetto 2001, Cartoon Club Editore, 2001, pp. 8-12.
Luca Boschi, sezione in “And the Oscar goes to…”. Su Annuario del Fumetto 2002, Cartoon Club Editore, 2002, p. 58. [Rigel compare nella top five dell'anno]
Anima dark (a cura della Redazione). In: Scuola di Fumetto n. 23, Coniglio Editore, ottobre 2004
Valentina Semprini, De’ Grimani e Palmieri, “genitori” di un Djinn. Su: Fumo di China n. 124, Cartoon Club Editore, novembre 2004, p. 11. (Copertina di Elena de' Grimani)
