""It works for me best to draw analog, edit digitally and add text or colour my drawings in a second step. But for this I already need to know the text elements, so it usually takes me really long to figure out the different elements before I can really start working and puzzle everything together," says Leo. "Most often I work with already existing stories (not strictly texts) and love to do lots of research and deep dives to find links and parallels in other stories. It's important to add historical context and give the stories more dimension.""
""In the case of Tyger Tales, it is really important to me to mention that all text in this book are quotes and information by Lady Tyger herself, friends of hers and newspaper articles. The story is not imagined by me," says Leo. "The text is a rearrangement of Tyger's stories and minimally altered to create a narrative. I am only using what Tyger told herself.""
Leo Flügler is a Leipzig-based illustrator working across comics, tattooing and narrative drawing, using mechanical pencil, graphite powder and pastel chalk to create soft, smudgy imagery. The Tyger Tales project retells Marian 'Lady Tyger' Trimiar's life as the first female boxer to fight for rights in the ring and in court. Monochrome graphite textures and ghostly smudging translate microaggressions, overt racism and sexism into whispery visual forms. Research-driven layering of fragments, fairy tales, mythology, archives, queer history and boxing adds historical context and dimension. All text in Tyger Tales comprises quotes and information from Trimiar, her friends and newspaper articles, minimally rearranged to form a narrative.
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