Tygger and her husband were having serious financial trouble 5 years ago.
I believe he was out of work making bills a big problem.
I bought a commission from her to help out at that time, it bought
groceries.
Also if I remember correctly, she was trying to not do naughty furry
art, preferring to stay with teases or at most nudes.
That cut into her sales quite a lot at the time.
I don't recall seeing any new art from her anywhere.
On a side note, I think she had issues with her name and some other artist.
She started signing 'T!' or similar
Zach Collins (Siege) wrote:
>
> On 12/14/06, Scrapper Black Dragon <scrapperbd_at_yahoo.com
> <mailto:scrapperbd%40yahoo.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.
>
> --
> Zach Collins (Siege)
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 23:47:42 CST