Rigel is a goth-dark comicbook character, her adventures take place in our contemporary world, she is created by Elena de' Grimani.

After a first series of three volumes self-produced by the author from '99 to 2001 that did debut at Lucca Comics, Rigel becomes a small "publishing phenomenon",[1] and in fact just two years after its debut, goes to publication with Panini Comics, first with the miniseries "Rigel Interlunium" that will be sold out and reprinted several times (the last in 2012 in deluxe-variant version)[2] and then continue with the monographic Anedonia, giving life to a new narrative arc of the character.

[2] The series was followed in 2014 by the one-shot monohraphic book volume Anedonia,[7][8] consisting of 144 pages, again published by Panini Comics in 2014 and entirely written, screened and designed by Elena de' Grimani.

[9] In 2008 a special monographic book with Rigel as main character, with the title Gioco di Sangue,[10] is published by Cartoon Club as "one shot" for the "Rimini Comix" comicbook fair.

Meanwhile, one sorcerer and vampire, Artemius, began to study her, introducing herself to her as imaginary friend and ending, once she grew up, for fall in love.

In the monographic Rigel-Anedonìa released in 2014 for Panini Comics,[3] the vampire manages to free herself from her "human side" after ten years of "torpor".

[14] As is well-specified in the introduction of the last released graphic novel, it is not by chance that this monograph is titled "Anedonia": this passage story in fact is meant to be a metaphor of depression, on how to isolate from the world (Rigel in fact "disappears" hiding under the ground for ten years, letting herself go into a "torpor" as a clear will and decision to close all contacts, and at the same time "emprisons" metaphorically his human part – that was her peculiar characteristic, the only thing that made her able to experience feelings and emotions, making her different from other undeads, in a "glass sphere" that isolates her soul from everything, and then continues to live in the real world but without being able to "taste" anything, thus protecting itself from pain ... but also from positive feelings.