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Sparkie the wolf

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Sparkie the wolf

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Amy the Squirrel

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:''This page is about the cartoon character. For the [[fursuit]]ed TV character, see [[The Drew Carey Show]]''
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'''Amy the Squirrel''' is a [[squirrel (species)|squirrel]] character created by [[Eric W. Schwartz]]. She was featured in a number of Schwartz's early [[wikipedia:Amiga|Amiga]] animations, and became an unofficial [[mascot]] in the Amiga community. Most of Eric's animations were produced with Movie Setter, an Amiga package not unlike Flash, but meant for stand-alone disk content. XAnim and other players can play these files, and so Eric's animations can still be viewed on Mac, OS/2, Linux and Windows machines.

Amy enjoyed her initial popularity when several of Eric's animations were featured on [[wikipedia:Fred Fish|Fred Fish]] disks - collections of hot shareware and freeware for the Amiga sold mail-order and traded at user groups - and multiple times in a Commodore-centric magazine.

Amy predates most of Schwartz's other characters, including [[Sabrina]]. In the ''[[Sabrina Online]]'' web comic, Amy is Sabrina's roommate, and has a boyfriend [[Thomas Woolfe]] whom she eventually marries. They have a son, [[Timothy Squirrel-Woolfe|Timothy ("Timmy")]].

Amy has changed a bit over the years; in the early years (late 1980s to the mid 1990s), Amy was almost always drawn topless (though not in a naughty way), wearing nothing but a very short blue skirt. She was portrayed as mostly playful and mischievous.

Ever since the mid-90s, Amy isn't drawn topless very often anymore; she is also portrayed as being much more modest and mature. This character change is probably in part due to her getting married and having a child in ''Sabrina Online''.

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AROS Kitty

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'''AROS Kitty''' is a cat character created by [[Eric Schwartz]] and the mascot of the AROS Research Operating System and was officially adopted by the AROS Team in December 2, 2002.

==External links==
*[http://www.aros.org/downloads/kitty/ Kitty] on AROS website

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Eric W. Schwartz

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'''Eric W. Schwartz''' (full '''Eric Williams Schwartz'''; born November 27, 1971, in [[W:Dayton, Ohio|Dayton, Ohio]], USA)<ref>http://kasplutt.dlinkddns.com/sab/author.html</ref> is a [[artist|freelance illustrator]], [[animator]], [[wikipedia:Amiga|Amiga]] enthusiast, and [[artist]] of note, especially in the [[furry fandom|fandom]].

== Fandom involvement ==

Eric is the creator of the [[webcomic]] ''[[Sabrina Online]]'', and the [[character]]s [[Amy the Squirrel]], [[Sabrina]] the Skunkette, [[Tabitha]] (Sabrina's little sister), [[R.C. Raccoon]], [[Sheila Vixen]], [[Tammy Vixen]], [[Clarisse Cat]], [[Carli Chinchilla]], [[Darke Katt]] and a few others. He is also one of the most well-known and vocal activists for the Amiga operating system.

Eric's art has been published in multiple publications (beginning with ''Sabrina at See-CAD''), and he also produces his own portfolios. He has also produced a number of furry animations of varying lengths.

He was a [[guest of honor]] at [[ConFurence 7]] (1996) and at [[Morphicon]] 2004.

=== Characters ===

* '''Amy the Squirrel''' is the oldest character developed by Eric. Used in his original Amiga animations, she became known as the "unofficial mascot" of Amiga in 1992.<ref>http://www.animationandvideo.com/2011/08/eric-w-schwartz-cartoonist-animator-and.html</ref> Her first appearance in a full length animation was in 1993, in a short called [[A Walk in the Park]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7oNlDlIe8</ref>. Other animations include three [[At the Movies]] shorts. When the Sabrina Online comic was created, Eric toned down her sexuality and made her Sabrina's roommate. She was later married to [[Thomas Woolfe]], a character created by [[Michael Higgs]]. She and Thomas have a child, named [[Timothy Squirrel-Woolfe|Timmy]].
* '''Sabrina''', also called Sabrina the Skunk, is the main character in Eric's ''Sabrina Online'' webcomic. A nerdy skunk, and Amiga enthusiast, she becomes the head web designer for the [[Double Z Studios]], and works under [[Zig Zag]]. Both the location and the character were also created by Max Black Rabbit. She became girlfriend and later wife to [[R.C. Raccoon]] after meeting on an [[IRC]] network and the two later have a child, named [[Danielle Conrad|Danielle]] in the sequel ''Baby Steps''. Sabrina is featured in two of his animations, the first being ''Plight of the Artist'', and the second being ''Remote Possibilities''.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtxQ_u_AftA</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyrgC6XTp28&index=9&list=PLEAC617B39633201E</ref> Sabrina can be seen in the background of [[At the Movies 3]].
* '''Clarisse Cat''' is yet another one of Eric's many characters. In fact, along with Amy the Squirrel, she is one of his originals. She has short blonde hair, mostly orange fur with peach secondary fur, face-to-tummy and slipper-pattern feet, and wears a cerise pink T-shirt (matching her nose).
* '''Tammy Vixen''' is the younger sister of Sheila Vixen, another of Eric's characters. Tammy's boyfriend was based on Eric's pet dog, Tor. When Tor passed away in 1998, Eric stopped drawing Tammy in response. (One of the pictures Eric did to commemorate his pet has [http://rigby-jones.net/es/art/art/Tordog1.jpg Tammy at Tor's grave].)
* '''Flip the Frog''': He can be seen having relations with Clarrise in many of Eric's old Amiga animations.

== Controversy ==

Eric is believed by some to be one and the same as the erotic toon artist [[TDK (artist)|TDK]],{{fact}} and the struggle to prove the truth or otherwise of this assertion was for a while an extensive back-and-forth, involving [[furry fan|Fans]] and [[Furs]] versus (mostly) [[anti-furries]] on forums such as [[Portal of Evil]], [[CYD]], and [[4chan]].{{fact}}

== References ==
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== See also ==

*[[AmiZilla]]
*[[AROS Kitty]]

== External links ==

* [http://www.coax.net/people/erics/ Eric W. Schwartz'] official website
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ews Eric W. Schwartz] on [[FurAffinity]]
* [http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Eric-Schwartz/ Eric W. Schwartz] on [[VCL]]
* [http://rigby-jones.net/es/ The Unofficial Eric Schwartz Archive]
* [http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/index.html Amiga Animations] - features Eric's work, amongst others, viewable via Java applet.
* [https://twitter.com/ProductionsEric Eric W. Schwartz] on [[Twitter]]

=== Media ===

* [http://www.jumpgate.technomages.net/ewsinterview.html Jumpgate Magazine Interview]

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