Where the Buffalo Roam (webcomic)
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| Where the Buffalo Roam | |
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| Author(s) | Hans Bjordahl |
| Website | http://www.shadowculture.com/wtbr/ |
| Current status | Completed |
| Launch date | 1991 (online) |
| End Date | 1994 |
Where the Buffalo Roam was the first Internet comic strip.
Originally created as a college strip, it featured subjects associated with college life at the time, with topics like "parking nazis", "shroom patrol" and "alliance for the vertically challenged", as well as computer-related situations.
The main characters were undergrads Zack, Scooby, Hilary and Sharon, and a cat named "Dio".
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[edit] History
Created as a college strip in the Colorado Daily in 1987.
The strip became the first regularly updated Internet comic strip in 1991. The panels were scanned and posted daily as GIF and PostScript files on a Usenet group.
Ths strip was available on its own "alt" group: alt.comics.buffalo-roam for a couple of years.
The strip was moved to the Web in 1993, after the advent of the NCSA Mosaic browser made viewing images directly over the Web possble. It was preceded on the Web by Doctor Fun, a daily single panel cartoon feature that was originally created for print, but moved to the Web and is the first regularly updated cartoon on the Web. See Webcomic.
Where the Buffalo Roam ran until late 1994. An archive remains online, but new material has not been added.
The creator, Hans Bjordahl, currently contributes to the Mr. Cranky review site.
[edit] Sources
[edit] Web sites
- Bjordahl, Hans Where the Buffalo Roam (archive site)
- Campbell, T (2003) "History of Online Comics" Comixpedia
- "Hans Bjordhal" Lambiek Comiclopedia
- "Webcomics" Lambiek Comiclopedia
