- Where the Buffalo Roam (webcomic)
Infobox webcomic|
title = Where the Buffalo Roam
caption =
author = Hans Bjordahl
url = http://www.shadowculture.com/wtbr/
status = Completed
began =1992 (online)
ended =1994
genre =
ratings ="Where the Buffalo Roam" was among the first Internet comic strips. T.H.E. Fox was published earlier, in 1986, on
Compuserve andQuantum Link .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".
History
Created as a college strip in the "Colorado Daily" in 1987.
The strip became the first regularly updated Internet comic strip in 1992. The panels were scanned and posted daily as
GIF andPostScript files on aUsenet group. [http://groups.google.it/group/alt.comics.buffalo-roam/browse_thread/thread/c2779c64fd17469e Daily comic strip coming to alt.comics.buffalo-roam] Herb Morreale, Apr 14 1992, "Starting Wednesday, April 15 (something good had to happen on that day), XOR Network Engineering will start bringing you "Where the Buffalo Roam" on a daily basis."]Ths strip was available on its own "alt" group: alt.comics.buffalo-roam for a couple of years.Fact|date=November 2007
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. SeeWebcomic ."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.Notes
References
* Bjordahl, Hans [http://www.shadowculture.com/wtbr/story.html Where the Buffalo Roam] (archive site)
*Campbell, T (2003) [http://www.comixpedia.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=696 "History of Online Comics"] "Comixpedia"
* [http://www.lambiek.net/bjordahl_hans.htm "Hans Bjordhal"] Lambiek "Comiclopedia"
* [http://www.lambiek.net/comics/webcomics.htm "Webcomics"] Lambiek "Comiclopedia"External links
* [http://www.shadowculture.com/wtbr/story.html "Where the Buffalo Roam"]
* [http://www.mrcranky.com/ Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies]
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