On 12/14/06, Scrapper Black Dragon <scrapperbd_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Subsequently, trying to find more of Tygger's artwork, or
> even find out about the artist, it appears is has a
> preference for staying out of the light and covering her
> tracks - makes me wonder what happened to turn this
> talented artist away from the fandom. She _used_ to have
> some of ther work hosted on www.skunked.com (where
> Skunkworks AMA currently resides, for those who have not
> drawn the association); a 'history engine' type web site
> happened to have some cached that appeared when I was
> Google searching.
>
> Anyone able to give a bit of an overview of what occurred?
I remember sitting in at l'Artiste's on FurryMUCK, chatting with her,
almost a decade ago now.
Ms. Tygger Graf, who did legally change her first name to Tygger, left
the fandom some years back, a few months after her comic "Guardian
Knights" failed badly. She had been doing all the scripting,
pencilling, inking, and coloring. She put all her time, money, and
energy into it and got almost nothing back.
I suspect that that was the big thing that soured her on furrydom,
though certainly other things contributed (like the growing demand of
consumerism among the fans). These days, I think she's working as an
illustrator for some big company (many artists who hide their fandom
associations do). But for whatever reason, she wants to bury her
association with furries, despite having been THE Popular Artist of
the time.
I have a few images of her work saved on my older machine (1996 era
computer), but they're not sorted out from the general collection, and
I don't have an ISA Ethernet card installed (motherboard firmware
glitch - it will only accept one PCI device at a time, and I want the
video to work); it would take a while to retrieve them.
And yes, Tygger's style wasn't always easy to tell apart from Smith's
and Light's, but it was possible. It helped that most of the scans she
released had an infobox on them saying who to contact and what price
the prints were.
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Zach Collins (Siege)
Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 22:46:21 CST