Sabrina Online is a furry webcomic created by Eric W. Schwartz and which has consistently managed to put out its monthly batches of strips since its start in late 1996.

The comic revolves around the Slice of Life tales of Sabrina, a quiet skunk who works as a web designer. Unable to find another job after she was replaced at work by a clip-art library, she finds work as webmaster for a porn studio, run by the flirtatious Zig Zag. However, the tone is gently restrained, with an uncomfortable heroine only now growing used to this bizarre job, while her friends (including her living Transformers toys!) around her have their own antics. Updates once a month.

Not to be confused with that Sabrina or that Sabrina, or even the 1954 film called Sabrina.

Tropes used in Sabrina Online include:
  • Adorkable: Sabrina.
  • Anything That Moves: Zig Zag, though she exaggerates this to get a rise out of Sabrina.
  • Art Evolution: Averted; the strip pretty much looks the same in 2011 as it did in 1996.
  • Art Shift: Sabrina's webcomic that is an Expy of herself drawn in a grittier style. Lampshaded to no end, of course!
  • Aside Glance: Often enough to smash the fourth wall.
  • Author Appeal: Sabrina's Amiga advocacy, the talking Transformers toys, and, by Schwartz's own admission, the inclusion of Zig Zag.
  • Author Filibuster: Though it's turning into more of an Author Tract as the last several months of strips have been literally nothing but two to three characters standing or sitting around espousing Eric Schwartz's opinion on various things.
  • Barefoot Cartoon Animals: The entire cast.
  • Berserk Button: Bringing up Zig Zag's past as anything other than a set of facts (and even that chafes).
    • It's also hinted that Zig doesn't take kindly to anyone who tries to hurt her or her friends.
    • An arc launched in December 2010 implies she doesn't take kindly to the GIFT in action.
  • Big Beautiful Woman: Tina Lynx, Zig Zag's secretary/assistant/lover.
  • Bleached Underpants: Eric Schwartz's own commissioned stuff, plus the porn-based origins of much of the supporting cast. (Although the whole "they're porn stars" premise is not hidden at all in the comic.)
    • Special mention goes to Sabrina, which the artist has done nothing erotic of, even on his adult art site. The closest thing he ever did of naughty Sabrina art was an oil painting of her in a pose out of a well known Victorian-era nude painting. In fact, he rather vehemently goes after risque Sabrina fan-art on the web, for all the good that does.
  • Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Zig Zag complains of her lack of friends to hang out with:

With the others it's about business, or sex... or sexy business.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Special strips for holidays - most especially April Fools - will be completely and utterly medium-aware. The main storyline has some moments of this as well.

Amy: Must be tough waiting so long to get a car. [points out to the viewer] To them, too.
Timothy: [Waves 'Hi']

Sabrina: It's tough keeping up with Tabitha, isn't it?
Zig-Zag: You're telling me! It's harder than picking camera angles for a scene with an elephant!
[Cutaway to a camera's eye view: only the top of Zig's face is visible, with an elephant flooding the background]
Zig-Zag: Can you see anything?
Cameraman: Maybe if I backed all the way out of the room...
[Cut back to Zig and Sabrina, the latter looking very confused]
Sabrina: What the hell was THAT!?
Zig-Zag: Hey, we work in media! We should have more power to set up random cutaways than some fat New England guy!

  • Dark and Troubled Past: Zig Zag.
  • A Date with Rosie Palms/Caught with Your Pants Down: In one of the early strips, Sabrina decides to indulge in some "hands-on" "cybering" with her (then still-unseen) internet boyfriend, Richard. She's just getting into things when her roommate, Amy, walks in on her. (This later earns Richard the nickname "Sticky Fingers".)
    • Also that one time Carli the Chinchilla was eavesdropping on Sabrina and Richard during one of their sessions.
  • Death Glare: Amy does a truly magnificent one in this strip.
  • Did Not Do the Research: "What sort of movie studio would be caught dead outside of California?"
  • Did You Just Have Sex?: Zig Zag has, unsurprisingly, a sixth sense about this sort of thing.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Say mean things on the internet about Zig Zag and she'll hunt you down to administer beatings and\or psychological torture.
  • Double Standard Rape (Female on Female): Averted hard at the porn convention hotel when Sabrina slaps some sense into Zig. Zig snaps out of it and admits that she went too far and nearly fell into the same patterns that she suffered herself, leading into some Character Development and a closer friendship for the two. Not that Zig stops from teasing the hell out of Sabrina either.
  • Eye Scream: Zig Zag gets a scare when she wakes up and finds she has a subconjunctival hemorrhage of the eye, but her doctor says that it's essentially just a bruise.
  • The Faceless: Both Carli's husband and Thomas' father are wolves who, possibly as a species trait, are much taller than anyone else, thus they are only "shot" from the neck down for long periods to avoid awkward scene angles.
    • Though Spike, Carli's husband, has had his face shown on his first (at the time un-named) appearance, and several times more since (he was sitting, so his head was level with Carli's).
  • Flame Bait: In-Universe: After a scrape with the Image Boards, Zig Zag discovers that mentioning her name is enough to cause bouts of fury.
  • Four-Fingered Hands: The entire cast.
  • Freudian Excuse (Averted)/Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Zig Zag refuses to blame any of her behavior on her tragic past, and hates it when anyone tries.
    • Alternate Character Interpretation: Zig Zag is in heavy denial and hasn't recovered emotionally from her abuse. That's why she screws almost Anything That Moves. That's why Sabrina is her ONLY platonic friend. After getting forcibly rejected by Sabrina in comic 138, Zig Zag told her "I've had to deal with abuse like this my whole life. I can't believe I almost fell into doing it myself." Zig Zag also told Sabrina "Calm down a bit, and I promise you'll love this" right before Sabrina gave her a black eye. That doesn't sound like someone who's over her past abuses. Let's face it, Zig Zag needs therapy. A LOT of therapy. However, she has been shown to open up...but to a point, and under her own terms. Then again, as ahe herself put it - "Honestly! Can't someone behave playful or slutty without there having to be some deeper meaning behind it!?!" Either way, one never truly recovers from that sort of abuse - the best that can be hoped for is a life in which it doesn't weigh on the mind or constantly interfere. Zig Zag arguably does that. Therapy might still help her, but the belief that one can just rollback their life and edit out the bad parts is something that has to be fixed in therapy. Zig at least seems to have understood this, and acts accordingly. (That said, Blackrabbit would know more than Schwartz on the matter.)
  • Fridge Horror: Sabrina experiences this after she fends off a mugger.
  • Genki Girl: Carli.
  • Girl-On-Girl Is Hot: Some people watching the studio's webcam show certainly think so.
  • Glasses Girl: Sabrina.
  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: Happens with Thomas when he finds out Amy is pregnant with Timothy.
  • Good Bad Girl: Tina Lynx.
  • Hands-Off Parenting: Richard's hippie parents.
  • Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Here's an example.
    • Or, for a slightly earlier one:

Endora: I don't see how someone can be taken seriously with a name like that.
Zig Zag: *in cheerful tone* Why? Am I supposed to be taken seriously?

"Decepticon... GIVE ME YOUR FACE!"

Thomas: Zoologically speaking, shouldn't this also be impossible?
Amy: Well, that's why we have comic strips.

  • Ms. Fanservice: Zig Zag, obviously. Sheila and Amy also qualify.
  • My Beloved Smother: Endora, Sabrina's ultra-conservative mom.
  • Not So Different: Played with here.
    • Happens again here, albeit unintentionally on Schwartz's part. See also She Who Fights Monsters above.
  • Not What It Looks Like: Invoked: Zig Zag deliberately makes a lunchtime invitation to Richard look like a proposition for sex, much to his bewilderment.

Play along. Sabrina and I are taking you out to lunch.

Amy: (looks straight at the reader) So, you buying any of this?
  • There Are No Girls on the Internet: Discussed and eventually subverted. One strip even is titled almost exactly that.
  • There Is Only One Bed: Intentionally set up by Zig Zag.
  • Thought Bubble: Being a baby, most of Timmy's dialogue is shown in one. He even has these before he was born.
  • Token Wholesome: Sabrina in her workplace.
  • Unusual Euphemism: "Holy dammit Christmas!" At least, it's a euphemism compared to what people would normally say. (And a reference to The Venture Brothers.)
  • Webcomics Long Runners: Along with User Friendly, Sluggy Freelance and Kevin and Kell, the longest of the long.
    • Although that's only in terms of age. In number of comics, it still hasen't reached 1000...
      • It's got 500+. In twelve years. If you count holidays, filler and April Fools strips.
        • Let's see, that's... a little over 41 strips a year, or 0.8 comics a week, or 0.11 comics a day.
  • Webcomic Time: The comic has been going since 1996. At the most, 18 months have passed, storyline-wise.
    • Yet Schwartz keeps mentioning real-life products in the comic... So basically, no more than two years have passed in-universe between Windows 95 being the most recent version of Windows, and Sabrina's toys complaining about the new Revenge of the Fallen-based Optimus Prime toy.
      • To reference the figure above, if one were to figure every strip wound up averaging one day of time In-Universe, time for the main cast is somehow being distorted into running at one tenth the speed of normal time.
      • Subverted several times; Sabrina apparently goes went to college, and explains that she does this "in the free time between strips" when Amy questions this; another occasion, when Amy wakes up to find her pregnancy greatly developed, and asks "how long between strips, anyway?"
  • Where Did We Go Wrong?: Richard's parents. They are ultra-liberal flower-child hippies, and extremely open-minded - and he rebelled by becoming a perfectly straight-laced IT graduate, working tech-support for Microsoft.
  • Wish Fulfillment: In one arc, Zig Zag steals papers detailing information on a group of trolls (courtesy of a well-meaning Sabrina) and abuses them psychologically and, in one case, physically.
  • Write Who You Know: Sabrina starts drawing her own web comic, which is based on events that happened previously in the comic.
  • You Bastard: While the don't explicitly say it, this is probably what Sabrina and Tina think of the viewers who want them to joke about Zig Zag's past.
  • YouTube Poop: Several of Schwartz's old animations of the characters
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