Justin Bastard Sane (aka Justin Sane) is an American comic book creator,

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and

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. His comic books are done in a silhouette style reminiscent of early film and his movies feature sex, violence and satirical comedy. His two-part comic ''Heart of a Corpse'' is the nearly-silent story of a depressed young mortician's daughter and her deceased fiancé, who rises from his grave nightly due to a heart that never managed to decompose. It is published by Slave Labor Graphics. ''Bloody Dreadful'', an ongoing horror anthology, and the social satire ''The Woodland Welfare Manifesto'', are also published by SLG. The most well known of his short films is ''Teddy Bears' Picnic'' (2006) (in which a very polite tea party for stuffed bears turns into a bloody cannibalistic feast) that appeared in '' Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation'', Sane has also directed eight other shorts, including a humorous

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porno, a shockingly bloody 1950s television satire and an absurdist "cartoon" about philosophical, and accident-prone, mice.

Comics Work

* ''Heart of a Corpse'' (2012) * ''Bloody Dreadful'' (2013) * ''The Woodland Welfare Manifesto'' (2014)

Short films

* ''The Secret Lives of Sock Monkeys'' (2004) * ''A Day at the Circus'' (2005) * ''Baby's Toast'' (2005) * ''Teddy Bears' Picnic'' (2006) * ''Eat the Johnsons'' (2008) * ''Those Mental Mice in "Existence"'' (2008) * ''Ubu Ingesting'' (2010) * ''The Exquisite Corpse'' (2010) * ''Last of the Dodos'' (2011)

External links

SLG PublishingHeart of a Corpse
at ComiXology
MRJUSTINSANE.COM
- Official Comics Site
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation site
featuring ''Teddy Bears' Picnic''. *

American comics writers American film directors American puppeteers American animators American animated film directors 1976 births Living people {{US-comics-creator-stub