{"id":243178,"date":"2026-01-20T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:30:10","slug":"leo-fluglers-whispery-graphite-comic-tells-the-story-of-a-female-boxer-struggling-against-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243178\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Fl\u00fcgler\u2019s whispery graphite comic tells the story of a female boxer struggling against sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"zn7v4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/ones-to-watch-2025-showcase\/leo-fl%C3%BCgler\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Fl\u00fcgler<\/a> is a Leipzig-based illustrator working across comics, tattooing and narrative drawing whose project Tyger Tales tells the story of Marian \u2018Lady Tyger\u2019 Trimiar, the first female boxer to fight for her rights both in the ring and in court. Working with mechanical pencil, graphite powder and pastel chalk, Leo\u2019s soft and smudgy materials tell the story of the oft-forgotten Marian Trimiar with a ghostliness that is a testament to the overt and ambient racism and sexism of female boxing, transforming microaggressions and unconscious bias into a whispery visual form.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"955gs\">\u201cIt 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,\u201d says Leo. \u201cMost 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\u2019s important to add historical context and give the stories more dimension.\u201d Whilst layering fragments and puzzling different stories and aspects together, Leo is drawn to fairy tales, mythology, transformation, queer history, archives and of course, boxing, the type of sport that exerts a violence that is softened and told alternatively in Leo\u2019s monochrome graphite textures.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7rr6f\">\u201cIn 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,\u201d says Leo. \u201cThe text is a rearrangement of Tyger\u2019s stories and minimally altered to create a narrative. I am only using what Tyger told herself.\u201d In this stunning comic-narrative, Leo centres Marian as an underdog struggling against sexism in the boxing industry \u2013 and tells the story as faithfully as possible, whilst allowing unseen moments of her life come to life in deeply felt illustrations that show friendship, pain, determination and legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leo Fl\u00fcgler is a Leipzig-based illustrator working across comics, tattooing and narrative drawing whose project Tyger Tales tells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-243178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}