Eric W. Schwartz

Eric W. Schwartz
Real name	Eric Williams Schwartz
Other names	Eric Schwartz
Born	November 27, 1971
Birth place	Dayton, Ohio, USA
Profession or hobby	Freelance illustrator, animator, writer
Convention GoH	ConFurence 7, Morphicon 2004
Website	http://www.coax.net/people/erics/

Eric W. Schwartz is a freelance illustrator, animator, writer, and Amiga enthusiast.

Fandom involvement

Eric is the creator of the webcomic Sabrina Online, and the characters 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 (AmigaOS).

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

Fursona

Eric represents himself in media as a male squirrel.

Convention attendance

• Anthrocon - ?
• ConFurence - ?, 1996*, ?
• Further Confusion - ?
• Morphicon - ?, 2004*, ?

(*) - GoH

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. Her first appearance in a full-length animation was in 1993, in a short called A Walk in the Park.. 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 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. She is also the older sister of Tabitha. 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 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. 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 Tammy at Tor's grave.)
• Flip the Frog: He can be seen having relations with Clarrise in many of Eric's old Amiga animations.

Zig Zag

Although not his creation, Eric is very fond of Canadian furry artist Max Black Rabbit's character Zig Zag, a skunk/tiger hybrid and porn actress of profffesion. She and her creator appear on Eric's webcomic, Sabrina Online.

Art

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 several furry animations of varying lengths.

Controversy

Eric is believed by some to be the same as the erotic toon artist TDK, and at one point during the turn of the 21st millennium, the struggle to prove the truth or otherwise of this assertion was, for a while, an extensive back-and-forth online fight, involving furries versus (mostly) anti-furries (critics) of that period.

See also

• AmiZilla
• AROS Kitty

External links

• Eric W. Schwartz on Fur Affinity
• Eric W. Schwartz on VCL
• The Unofficial Eric Schwartz Archive
• Amiga Animations - features Eric's work, amongst others, viewable via Java applet.
• Eric W. Schwartz on X
• Eric W. Schwartz on BlueSky
• ES Productions on Patreon (NSFW)
• Sabrina Online on Patreon (SFW)