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.
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.