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Continuing my twentieth anniversary tribute to "ConFurence East" in Elizabeth, New Jersey (the very first 'furry convention' I'd ever attended), this latest 'Throwback Thursday' offering features yet another anthroartist I'd met in the Dealer's Room, where I took a rare 'photo-op' of her...
Lia 'Tygger' Graf was a very popular artist and a major contributor to the fanzine "Gallery" (from Issue #12 to #36), sometimes providing cover art for some of the issues, as well as for the 'funny animal' comic book "Furrlough".
Unfortunately, someone (I don't know who) must've done or said something offensive to her, because she eventually disappeared off the radar of 'furry fandom' - which is a shame, because we could certainly use more talented people like her....
(BTW, if anyone knows of Lia's whereabouts, let me know privately via my "FA" e-mail inbox, so I can get in touch with her again - not as artist to artist, but simply as friends.)
'Tigger' (C) A.A. Milne/Walt Disney Pictures
Lia 'Tygger' Graf was a very popular artist and a major contributor to the fanzine "Gallery" (from Issue #12 to #36), sometimes providing cover art for some of the issues, as well as for the 'funny animal' comic book "Furrlough".
Unfortunately, someone (I don't know who) must've done or said something offensive to her, because she eventually disappeared off the radar of 'furry fandom' - which is a shame, because we could certainly use more talented people like her....
(BTW, if anyone knows of Lia's whereabouts, let me know privately via my "FA" e-mail inbox, so I can get in touch with her again - not as artist to artist, but simply as friends.)
'Tigger' (C) A.A. Milne/Walt Disney Pictures
Category Photography / Human
Species Human
Size 450 x 675px
File Size 110.4 kB
I think she went underground after being caught copying other artists art styles and claiming she was the original.
Personally my beef with her is due to SDCC 2000. Glen Wooton and myself in 1999 were literally #s 1 and 2 buying tables for 2000 SDCC. We had the same tables for 8 years, people knew where to find us. In 2000 we both showed up for tables V8/V9 row 1600 as usual.
Only to find Tygger parked there, occupying our tables. Saying she owned them not us.
We argued, showed our proof of the receipts and the table numbers, the dealer liason basically told us that our receipts were no longer valid and we were moved...DESPITE the con book showing us at those tables.
We got shuttled to row 4500 behind the autograph curtains, what dealers called Death Row.
Lia bought her tables 6 weeks before the con, purposely requested our tables despite our year earlier placement, she went as far to remove our signs saying where we were now . Our sales totally sucked ass, we had people telling us Sunday that she was telling people we weren't at the con.
I won't say here how she got our tables, but a couple people connected with the con said it was a backstabbing way. I later found out her sales sucked and didn't warrant her expenditures. Both Glen and I refused to sell at SDCC after this, our 15 year sales at that con were tossed out for a first year dealer.
So yeah, someone I thought was a friend....wasn't. I've written her off.
Personally my beef with her is due to SDCC 2000. Glen Wooton and myself in 1999 were literally #s 1 and 2 buying tables for 2000 SDCC. We had the same tables for 8 years, people knew where to find us. In 2000 we both showed up for tables V8/V9 row 1600 as usual.
Only to find Tygger parked there, occupying our tables. Saying she owned them not us.
We argued, showed our proof of the receipts and the table numbers, the dealer liason basically told us that our receipts were no longer valid and we were moved...DESPITE the con book showing us at those tables.
We got shuttled to row 4500 behind the autograph curtains, what dealers called Death Row.
Lia bought her tables 6 weeks before the con, purposely requested our tables despite our year earlier placement, she went as far to remove our signs saying where we were now . Our sales totally sucked ass, we had people telling us Sunday that she was telling people we weren't at the con.
I won't say here how she got our tables, but a couple people connected with the con said it was a backstabbing way. I later found out her sales sucked and didn't warrant her expenditures. Both Glen and I refused to sell at SDCC after this, our 15 year sales at that con were tossed out for a first year dealer.
So yeah, someone I thought was a friend....wasn't. I've written her off.
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