Elena de 'Grimani (Rigel, Moon) is an artist who has been through a lot. He lived
sunrise and sunset of his most personal creation, Rigel, who was born as a game for friends and turned into a publishing success.
He heard a baby be born and grow inside her, an extraordinary experience that the world has inevitably moved away from its reference to the comic.
Now Elena is preparing to return to the stage with their his first love, Rigel - Edizioni BD out for - and will be in Mantova Comics & Games to sign tons of comics. And to forgive a long absence editorial, fortunately, seems to be over.
Before Rigel, then the Moon. Both series matches as a self-produced and then landed in the publishing mainstream circuit. What have you left those experiences? during the processing of both Rigel-Interlunium for Panini, which Moon Star Comics, I met many people. With some was born a friendship that lasts to this day, and I am very happy.
Technically, I learned a lot: confronted with a large number of tables that must be completed within clearly defined deadlines was difficult at first, looked for people like me from total anarchy. But I think it was a crucial step.
Sometimes it was heavy, I had a rate of about thirty months to complete tables (pencils, inks, textures or color, lettering) more 'covers, and this for a long time. But all in all, while seeing the flaws that inexperience coupled with the tight deadlines made me run in my albums, I'm happy.
I was confronted with different themes, styles of different colors and sizes: some are of experiences that have enriched my
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Rigel was initially thought to be offered friends, but at Lucca Comics was a great success. How changed your way of working since you had to do with the trade press? Some things the first time seemed strange, since I always run around with the self: when I was working alone and printed on my own, I could actually get the printers at the last minute, and above all find a lot of shortcuts when performing if the tables were so many (and were, at least for me, because each book had 132 pages): When a person follows the industry at your work, however, any shortcuts to be agreed, and all equipment is checked thoroughly. I started to be more organized, precise, to make steps with the times especially on the inking phase (which for me is the most 'Slow Time), and above all I realized that the key thing is to respect the time, anyway.
I must say that it was not easy at first, if your first sequence, I could not put it on paper, waiting for a better day ... when working with a publisher you can not. So even if you arrive a day "no" tragedies apart ... you must be able to be productive in those 24 hours. The plates that come out will not be the best ever, or maybe those of you more 'fair, but must be technically acceptable and produced on time. On this
no rain, but I started to have the agility and hand to do this at least remains between the second and third numbers Interlunium.
At first it was a tragedy ... I threw entire album, on paper sheets. But in the end
Rigel with Panini has sold over 13,000 copies was sold out and reprinted, which is a register for a 7 euro and made by someone unknown until then had only self-made and arrived breathless at every delivery is not too bad, right?
Rigel started as a project entirely yours, but when it was published by Panini Comics you enlisted Fabrizio Palmieri. tend to prefer to keep total creative control about your characters? Regarding Rigel yes. But by the time we were together Fabrizio and I, we were very young and involve us in this adventure seemed a natural step. He saw me autoprodurmi and also helped me in many things, from practical to creative ones, but his work was however another.
After the end of our relationship, I started to manage Rigel alone, like I did at the beginning (of the rest Rigel was born when Fabrizio and I still do not know). E 'was still great to work together, but obviously two heads can never be perfectly equal, and our ideas about certain things were to say the least conflicting. But even this was an enrichment.
Quali sono gli autori che ti hanno più influenzata a livello fumettistico? Ce ne sarebbero tantissimi da citare, non posso indicare nessuno in particolare. Sono veramente troppi. Rigel è nata in un periodo in cui ero "furiosa" riguardo al "sapere fumettistico" e adoravo veramente tutto, anche opere, autori e stili completamente diversi tra loro.
Dopo Luna ti sei presa una lunga pausa dal mondo del fumetto. Quali sono stati i motivi alla base di questa decisione? Ci sono stati moltissimi cambiamenti nella mia vita personale. A cavallo tra la consegna dell'ultimo numero di Luna e l'inverno successivo, è cambiato tutto. Fabrizio ha preso una strada different and our lives were split both professionally and personally, I have dealt with some health problems in the family, then I met my current partner (and future husband) and I had with him a child, Liam, who is now a year and a half. The pregnancy was perfect until the fifth month, then I had some problems and I was almost three months in hospital, immobile. The following year has elapsed between inspections, visits, analysis, and most people 'has more' and so forth. The baby is fine and fortunately has not suffered from anything, but who has also discovered during those months had some problems to watch out for me, and this, together with an impending transfer of the entire family in Normandy (in the city birthplace of my companion) and the efforts of a small child, I was away from comics right now and over the past few years I would not really able to afford the rates, the concentration, the tight and deliveries of which we spoke above. But things are normalizing, and fortunately it seems that slowly they can return as before.
Although of course, now the top priority 'in my life have definitely changed.
Yours is the story of an author who has self-made and scored an unexpected success. Looking back, there is something the same way? Technically, in hindsight, I would take lightly, less self-handling, che come hai detto tu fu fatta per gioco: se avessi minimamente sospettato che potesse davvero rivelarsi una porta verso un grande editore, come di fatto è stato, mi sarei presa piu' tempo e sarei stata piu' "tecnica", avrei ricercato, ripulito, buttato e rifatto molto di più.
Umanamente parlando, cercherei di essere molto piu' selettiva riguardo i pareri da ascoltare (critiche o complimenti che siano). Nascevo come utente di web community prima ancora di autoprodurmi e mi è sempre sembrato naturale continuare ad avere un confronto diretto con chiunque avesse qualcosa da dirmi tramite i forum. Piu' o meno quando Luna ha iniziato ad essere annunciata, per ovvie ragioni di tempo ho smesso quasi di botto la mia frequentazione delle community, first very active. At first I was sorry, but then I realized that instead in the end it was good.
Talk about your new projects. It 'was announced a long-unpublished volume of Rigel for Edizioni BD, where do you work? The volume will contain only original material or reprints of old stories too? Other projects in the pipeline? I have other projects in the pipeline but only a special feature for the moment. I have no more 'free time than before so it would be foolish to even think of doing something serial alone in this period. Rigel
The volume of BD is in the works and circumstances permitting I would like to get him out after the summer, but prendi queste parole con le pinze perchè ogni cosa al riguardo la decido insieme all'editore, del quale mi fido ciecamente, quindi non muovo un passo senza di lui riguardo questa cosa. L'ultima parola e l'unico vero annuncio ufficiale sarà lui a darlo. Qualunque altra voce (compresa la mia) al riguardo è falsa o comunque imprecisa.
Sara' una storia inedita, tutto materiale inedito, e molte cose riguardo al personaggio cambieranno.
Rigel in questo è sfortunata: riflette, anche se ovviamente non in modo fedelissimo (essendo un vampiro oltretutto...) i cambiamenti che investono me.
Se cambio io, cambia un po' anche lei.
E in questi anni sono cambata parecchio.
A sentire alcuni amici, in peggio.... ma amen, one can not 'have everything in life.
More what else is satisfactory to achieve a design that I like to order 100%. 
