Sabrina Online

Sabrina Online
Author(s)	Eric W. Schwartz
Website	http://www.sabrina-online.com/
Current status / schedule	Monthly, with 3 to 5 strips
Launch date	September 1996
Genre(s)	Furry

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Sabrina Online is a furry slice-of-life webcomic featuring the life of Sabrina the Skunk and the people around her. The comic was started by Eric W. Schwartz in 1996 and runs to over 500 individual strips (as of April 2009). It is one of the oldest continually published webcomics. It updates once a month with 3 to 5 three-panel strips. Schwartz explains that if he updated more frequently, the resulting time demand could dampen his enthusiasm for the strip and endanger its continuation.^{[citation needed]}

Sabrina was published in the Amiga Format magazine.^[1]The comic is also being sold in books, with one book for each year of strips. Sabrina received the Web Cartoonist’s Choice Award for "Best Romantic Comic" in 2001,^[2] and was nominated for "Best Anthropomorphic Comic" in 2002,^[3] "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" and "Outstanding Romantic Comic" in 2003^[4] and "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" in 2004.^[5]

[edit] Main characters

[edit] Sabrina

First Appearance: Strip #1 Female striped skunk, short white hair, wears glasses. Sabrina is shy and easily embarrassed, and enjoys collecting Transformers and computers, particularly the Amiga brand. An arts school graduate, now working as web designer at an adult movie studio and still not quite accustomed to the idea although she has considerably loosened up sexually. Although her boss has offered her roles, she does not actually participate in any of the films.

[edit] Richard Conrad (R.C.)

First Appearance: Strip #107 Male gray raccoon, thin. Sabrina's boyfriend. Shy and often unsure of himself. R.C. originally E-Mail Sabrina and she ask him to chat in an IRC. (Strip #40 , Strip #64 and Strip #69) He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and his love for all things Microsoft caused some mild tension early in his relationship with Sabrina (this has not been an issue since then and they considered the argument a good sign for their relationship).

[edit] Amy the Squirrel

First Appearance: Strip #3 Female red squirrel, blond hair. Amy the Squirrel is intelligent, independent, and very protective of her loved ones, like her son Timothy. She too has been approached by Sabrina's employer to appear in her films. Her job is unknown, but a video by Eric implied she worked at a hospital as a nurse.

[edit] Thomas Woolfe

First Appearance: Strip #5 Male gray wolf (though he is really a wolf/fox hybrid Strip #66). Amy's husband, father of Timothy. Character originally created by Michael Higgs, and is used with permission.

[edit] Tabitha

First Appearance: Strip #27 Female striped skunk, white hair with pigtails, Sabrina's much younger sister-they have an age difference of 20 years. Tabitha is a precocious young child, and acts accordingly. Despite her exuberant and extroverted personality, she has shown herself able to give advice both wise and profound. Due to her friendly encounters with Zig Zag, Tabitha has considerable interest in her business which Sabrina finds disconcerting not only for having a girl her age exposed to sexuality, but also the fear of the probably outraged reaction of their mother if she found out what her prepubescent child has been exposed to.

[edit] Timothy Squirrel-Woolfe

First Appearance: Strip #121 Male tan wolf/squirrel hybrid. Toddler, born January, 2000. Timothy is a reasonably well behaved baby, but is fond of hunting cockroaches and destroying Sabrina's collection of Transformers. He constantly speaks in baby gibberish which is partially understandable. He also has a very acute memory, and seems to have a sense for the value of Transformers.

[edit] Zig Zag

First Appearance: Strip #81 Female skunk/white tiger hybrid (her grandfather was a white tiger) with a difficult past she adamantly prefers not to be discussed to avoid having her sexual appetites being rationalized as a source of pity. Employer of Sabrina and head of Z.Z. Studios, producer of high-quality pornographic movies. A good friend to Sabrina, Zig Zag would love to be her lover (being bisexual), but her advances are always rebuffed - in one case, quite forcefully. Over time, Zig Zag has found that she needs Sabrina as a friend even more than she does as a lover. Character originally created by Malcolm Earle, better known as Max Blackrabbit, used with permission.

[edit] Supporting characters

[edit] Max Blackrabbit (AKA 'Bunnyman' to Tabitha)

First Appearance: Strip #75 Rabbit, all-over black in color. Had a crush on Sabrina, but Sabrina was never aware of this and he eventually gave up pursuing her. Although he is a canon character, he is also the furry persona of Zig Zag's creator. Also in the May 2002 strip, Strip #228 panel 3 "Welcome to Bizzaro-world", Max confesses to Sabrina that he had a crush on her for a long time. Then he tells her that he's found someone else and promises never to bother her again. As shown in the last pic, he's seen walking away with what looks like a reverse-patterned skunk as his brand new girlfriend (hence the "Bizzaro-world" title of the strip. Though she's hasn't been seen in the comic since, Eric reportedly claimed her name was "Anirbas, which is Sabrina spelled backwards).

[edit] Carli Chinchilla

First Appearance: Strip #26 Female violet-gray chinchilla, short hair and ponytail, glasses. Carli is fun-loving and fast-talking, and possessive of her husband Spike. (Named after Carly/Carli, a human character in the original U.S. Transformers cartoon series, also married; see below.) Intrigued by their relationship, Zig Zag has offered to have the couple appear in one of her productions, but they declined.

[edit] Spike

First Appearance: Strip #106 Male gray wolf, very tall and muscular. Spike is large and strong, but doesn't talk often, preferring actions to words. Because of his height, when he stands up his head disappears off the top of the frame. When his wife Carli says too much about their personal life, he puts his hand around her head in a fist. (Named after Spike Witwicky, a human character in the original U.S. Transformers cartoon series)

[edit] Eric Squirrel

First Appearance: Strip #49 Male squirrel, brown and light brown, overweight. Eric Squirrel is the visual representative of Eric Schwartz. Only rarely seen in the comic, and interacts little with the other characters except in non-canon strips that break the fourth wall.

[edit] Transformers

First Appearance: Strip Xmas 97 and Strip #40 Sabrina's collection of transformable toys who inexplicably have come to life with self-awareness and meta-knowledge of the Transformer universe (such as multiple names for the same Transformer depending on which series he's featured). They are led by Grimlock, and more recently Blackarachnia, due to them winning the election between the toys (despite or because of the presence of twelve different Optimus Primes). The Transformers are usually featured as trying to protect themselves from Timothy, as he enjoys chewing on them. In a Toy Story-esque scenario, they usually remain motionless. Only Sabrina, Zig Zag, and Timothy have seen them moving. Apart from evading Timothy, the Transformers also attempt to help Sabrina out in various ways, such as getting revenge on her boss Zig Zag. They also have little knowledge of sexuality, and most of them think that such interaction is an ineffective data interface.

[edit] Minor characters

[edit] Conrad

First Appearance: Strip #462 and Strip #464 R.C.'s dad, he repairs then sells people's garbage on eBay. Compared to Sabrina's parents, they have an idealistic hippie attitude to life, such as approving their son's sexual activity with Sabrina.

[edit] Rainflower

First Appearance: Strip #462 and Strip #463 R.C.'s mom, who sells her handmade crafts on a website R.C. helped create.

[edit] Endora

First Appearance: Strip #257 Sabrina's dumpy, zaftig mom, who is very protective of her daughter and who has her doubts about R.C. She also has conservative opinions to sexuality, which makes Sabrina's relationship with RC problematic for her while Sabrina is determined to hide the true nature of her workplace from her.

[edit] Warren

First Appearance: Strip #258 Sabrina's dad; somewhat more open minded and tolerant than Endora.

[edit] References to TV Media

Witches in television series:

In the early Strip #16 Amy mention that Sabrina reminded her of “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”

Sabrina mother and sister are named after character of the television series “Bewitched”

The Simpsons:

The comic has several references to the TV show The Simpsons

[edit] References

^ Amiga Format issues 104–124 and possibly later, listed in the tables of contents at http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/aformat.html.
^ 2001 Winners and Nominees
^ 2002 Winners and Nominees
^ 2003 Ceremony
^ 2004 Results

[0] Amiga Format issues 104–124 and possibly later, listed in the tables of contents at http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/aformat.html.

[1] 2001 Winners and Nominees

[2] 2002 Winners and Nominees

[3] 2003 Ceremony

[4] 2004 Results

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