Lauren loves books — maybe a little too much.
Lauren Ipsum is a webcomic created by Charles Brubaker as a spin-off of his previous webcomic, The Fuzzy Princess. The comic stars the titular rabbit Lauren Ipsum, a devoted librarian and book fanatic who spends her free time attempting to become a writer. Other characters include her young fox friend Dewey DeSmall and cat coworker Gutenberg. The webcomic began on October 31, 2022. The full archive can be read here
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Lauren Ipsum contains the following tropes:
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Dewey has blue fur.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Lauren usually. Dewey when eggs are concerned.
- Extremely Overdue Library Book: Happened to Lauren once. Pretty hypocritical, given her obsession with abiding by library deadlines.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: Lauren, Dewey, and Gutenberg appeared in Nine to Nine.
- Loony Librarian: Lauren, to a T.
- Meaningful Name: Many of the characters have names that relate to books or literature in some way: Lauren Ipsum, Dewey, Gutenberg, etc.
- Punny Name: Lauren Ipsum and Dewey DeSmall.
- Straight Man: Gutenberg, sometimes Dewey.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Dewey loves eggs to a rather obsessive level.
- World of Funny Animals: Every character is an animal of some kind.
