The First Comic On the Internet (The History of Online Comics: Part 1)

In this series of articles T Campbell explores the history of the still young medium of webcomics. In part one, Campbell looks at Hans Bjordahl's Where The Buffalo Roam which first appeared on Usenet in 1992. Bjordahl was the first of a small group of online comic pioneers centered in Boulder, Colorado that also included Holley Irvine (Ozone Patrol), Tom Oling (40th Parallel, later USS Utopia) and Terry Krueger (SOS). Despite his legitimate claim to creating the first "online comic", Bjordahl is no longer actively creating comics. Continue Reading