Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet is a comic strip which was drawn from 1996 through 2005 by American graphics artist Peter Zale.
Her looks, though, meant almost nothing to her, and her femininity only occurred to her as an afterthought and was usually applied with more aggressiveness than any man had ever seen, mostly upon her boyfriend Spencer Green, a character that Zale introduced in a strip which he syndicated with the College Press in the early 1990s.
A friendship with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters led Zale into strip cartooning and away from his first love, comic books.
[1] Following publication of the Christmas Day 2005 segment of Helen, Zale took leave of the strip in order to complete his MBA studies.
Zale's cartooning credits also include a weekly technology-related strip, "The Bleeding Edge," for www.techrepublic.com, a leading information technology news site.