About

About the comic

Sandra and Woo is a comedy webcomic featuring the 11 year old girl Sandra North and her pet raccoon Woo. While most strips are just supposed to be funny or tell an exciting story, some will also deal with more serious issues, for example the violation of human rights in Burma or the destruction of the environment. We also want to show what growing up means for Sandra and her schoolfriends Cloud and Larisa. Another important part of the comic are Woo’s trips to the forest to meet his furry friends Shadow (a fox) and Sid (a squirrel). Since fall 2009 a significant amount of strips does not center on Sandra and Woo, but on Cloud, Larisa and their families.

Contact information

Writer, webmaster and forum administrator:

  • Oliver Knörzer (aka Novil)
  • (Oliver is from Germany.)
  • Virchowstr. 32
  • 89075 Ulm
  • novil@gmx.de (If you have general questions about Sandra and Woo, you should rather write a mail to me instead of Powree.)

Artist:

Editor:

Legal stuff

  • This website and all of its content is published under German law. The following exclusion of liability contains additional information about copyright, privacy and responsibilities of the website owner.
  • Die Veröffentlichung dieser Website und aller auf ihr zu findenden Inhalte erfolgt gemäß deutschem Recht. Der folgende Haftungsausschluss enthält weitere Informationen über Urheberrechte, Datenschutz und Pflichten des Website-Betreibers.

Awards and reviews

FAQ

Can I post a Sandra and Woo strip on my website / blog / forum?

Yes, you can. If your website is non-commercial or if it’s a forum thread you can post up to three strips without asking for permission first. (These e-mails get annoying.) “Non-commercial” means that only an insignificant amount of money with advertising banners or through other endeavors is made. Up to three strips can be posted on commercial websites as well if it’s a webcomic website or if the strips are posted as part of a review of Sandra and Woo.

However, it is not okay to use a strip in any way to promote an opinion which is not substantiated by it.

In any case, the line with the copyright notice and website url at the bottom of the strip mustn’t be removed. If you don’t want to use the whole strip but only a cropped piece of it, the same information has to be found next to the image in text format.

An additional link to http://www.sandraandwoo.com/ is highly appreciated.

Can I translate Sandra and Woo into another language?

No, you are not allowed to change the English or German text of the strips. If you want to post a Sandra and Woo strips in a forum or elsewhere (see above) you can provide a translation beneath the strip.

Do you do link exchanges?

No. Every comic listed on our link page is there because we believe that it is a good comic that our readers might enjoy, not because we had to put it there in exchange for a backlink.

Can you draw a comic for me ’cause I…?

Regardless of what you need the comic for, the answer to that question is most likely “No.” It’s already a lot of work to maintain our regular update schedule and so we don’t have much time to do other things on top of that, at least not for free.

Is Sandra and Woo suitable for young children?

No.

Why are the speech bubbles so small/big? Why is the font size of the text in the speech bubbles so small/big?

The speech bubbles are drawn by Powree and the text is added afterwards by Novil. It is therefore possible that some speech bubbles are a bit too big or small. But that’s by far not as important as the fact that all Sandra and Woo strips are published in German and English. German sentences can be twice as long as their English counterparts. Because of this, some speech bubbles may appear unnecessary large in the English version although they are just right for the German translation.

Would it be possible to make the panels larger since the lines are sometimes quite thin?

The thickness of the lines shouldn’t be a problem any longer since Powree is drawing them considerably broader now compared to the earliest strips. Apart from that, the size of the website can’t be increased since 1024×768 is still a very popular resolution (used by about 25% of our visitors). It would also require much work on the WordPress/ComicPress code to make it possible to click on the image to open a larger one in a new window. I don’t know any webcomic website powered by ComicPress which offers such a feature.

Any plans of making the strip colored?

Not at the moment. Coloring is very time consuming. We’d rather publish an extra strip (or one consisting of more panels) than a colored one.

Why is there another webcomic featuring a raccoon called Woo?

Sandra and Woo was not inspired by Woo Tales or vice versa. This means that any similarities between the two Woos concerning their looks or their personalities are purely coincidental.

Why is the comments section closed sometimes?

There are several possible reasons for this: The first one is that I’m usually closing the comment section when I’m making major changes to the website so that I don’t get several unnecessary comments that the site is currently not working. I might also close comments when I get the feeling that a discussion derails and people start to make personal attacks against other users or myself. After all it’s my website and I don’t want to be insulted on my own site.