History
Bjordahl created a comic strip for his high school newsletter in Hawaii, then moved to Boulder in 1987 to attend the University of Colorado. It was there he created Where the Buffalo Roam, "an exploration of life on campus in the 1980s" which ran in the free community newspaper the Colorado Daily starting in 1987. The strip was pulled from the paper in 1991 after editors felt the gimmick "Frontal Nudity Mondays" was sexist.
The strip became a regularly updated Internet comic strip in 1991 when it was scanned and posted daily as GIF and PostScript files on a Usenet group. The 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 possible. The Houston Chronicle described it as "a World Wide Web favorite. Bjordahl's best when he's poking fun at the sacred cows of popular culture." It was preceded on the Web by Doctor Fun, a daily single panel cartoon feature that was originally created for print.
Where the Buffalo Roam ran until 1995. A very limited archive remains online, but new material has not been added.
BoulderDaze, a film based on the comic's characters, was released in 1999.
Read more about this topic: Where The Buffalo Roam (webcomic)
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