Comic:Riding the Medium Bus

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Riding the Medium Bus
Vimtury!
Artist: Katie Powell
Writer: Katie Powell
Characters: Kate, Mackenzie, Kevin, Curtis, Stacy, Alex, Stitches
Updates: Tuesdays, usually.
Began: September 26th, 2005
Ended: on going
Art style: cartoony/anthro-ish
Rating: Web-G/PG
Website Website

Riding the Medium Bus is a webcomic by Katie Powell. The comic started off as a harmless little senior project and quickly got out of hand.The comic documents some real events and some "would be cool if it was real" events.
The main characters are drawn as part animal or as fairies, with siblings and families being of the same type, this is done because the artist is taking the easy way to making iconic characters, that and the tails are a lot of fun to draw.

Characters

Main Characters In Order of First Appearance;
Mackenzie
Kate's little sister, Redhead, Werewolf and Utterly Dismissive of the Whole Thing, Would kill me if she wasn't on the top of this list, Ozzy is her dog and drooling worshiper.
Katie
Supposedly the one this thing is all about, Werewolf, Scholar, and a Lady, she has a bad tennis ball chewing habit. spells sure with an "h".
Kevin
Not a dumb blonde fox; fox yes, dumb no. Resents his role none the less. alter ego: Logic Man.
Stacy
Pixy with mood indicative wings, not quite shure how she ended up as Kate's friend. Still thinks trick or treating never goes out of style.
Alex
RATMAN! Has scene attended a sleepover, accidentally fell asleep at 5am. Makes his own energy drinks.
Stitches
Little blue cat. "Cute", Inert.
Sara
Marmalade cat with green hair, you see nosink
Filler Characters;
Curtis
The Filler Bunny, rabid demon lawyers be damned! Curtis made his own rabbit suit after being rejected from the main cast.
Artist Kate
The one drawing this thing.
The Puppets
When you don't have friends, make some.
The Fan Girls
Girls with fans, a few have made filler comics involving buttons.
People You Just Don't See Anymore;
Jeff
Raccoon, his T-shirt indicates what he thinks he's doing. secret identity of Go-Outside Man. Jeff was carried up to Mt. Rainier on a chariot of fire pulled by Opossums to take his place as Jeff, God of Biscuits, among the Immortals who dwell at the summit.
Kyle
Goat, last seen smoking crack with Satan.
Jami
aka Elfy the Elf, may make a comeback.
Ashley
black and white ska cat, used a couple of times
Austin
never got the time to shine.

Prehistory

in 9th grade my friend Jami the Elf started drawing cartoon kitties of everyone she knew but refused outright to draw one of me claiming "kitties don't trip over their own feet and then curse about it" in retaliation I started to draw my own cartoons parodying our relationship with her as an easily irked elf and myself as a gawky tall werewolf.

in 10th grade I joined the Endeavor program and made a few more friends who I then started to draw none but me was at that time pictured as part animal.

then in 11th grade, I realized its much easier that way, as I don't often have to draw noses and no matter how hard the muzzles are to get right human profiles are still not my strong suit.

for senior year I started publishing on the web. I turned what was previously just a collection of vaguely funny in-jokes scribbled on notecards, into a real webcomic for my senior project.


yay work in progress