About the Author

Ligeia is a Vampire character created by Me,Rodrigo Díaz Ricci. I am a Graphic Designer,Comic Writer and Comic artist who have lived and worked in Chile,Italy and Romania.I drawn covers for the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia and also for Mondo Ignoto’s Horror and Forbidden archaeology magazines, owned by Dario Argento and Luigi Cozzi. After that, I created two digital comic books : Ligeia the Vampire and Reborn. Ligeia is distributed by Rokcomics all over the world and sold in India, Malasia and Bangladesh.Reborn is distributed for iphone by Arrow Publications.

Besides, during the first part of 2011, I worked in an Erotic Graphic Novel for the European market and made the Storyboard for Blair Erickson's movie The Banshee Chapter, a Before the Door and Sunchacer Entertaintment production.

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About Ligeia

Ligeia was created in the summer of 2006 in Italy, inspired by the story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The plan was that this vampire "with a touch of irony", drawn in a style echoing the work of Alex Toth ,Frank Miller and Alberto Breccia, would be the kind of work an Italian publisher interested in publishing a graphic novel by Rodrigo would like.Unfortunately, neither of the two projects were done and were buried on Rodrigo's computer for some time. Then, when he put some of the pages of comicspace.com, a lot of people told him that they liked the character.Ligeia is inspired by various sources. Poe first, mainly to capture as much as possible the environment with the use of black and white in high contrast. There's also elements of the Lovecraft, especially his less known work "Medusa's Coil" ( by Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, mainly because Ligeia's hair moves in a lively, bizarre way).The strip also tributes to movies like La Maschera del Demonio, directed by Mario Bava, specially the use of black and white. Physically, Ligeia is a blend between Barbara Steele and Edwige Fenech and other actresses of the Golden Age .Rodrigo decided to make a pet cat called Edgard to avoid the horrible cliches of Igor in some bad movies. As a character it works well: cats have an extraordinary personality.

Ligeia has a different format now and you can read stories set in the current Romanian territory and in the rest of the European continent.