THE SANITY CIRCUS

THE SANITY CIRCUS is about a girl named Attley who at once maybe lived a fairly normal life in a totally normal place like Sanity, only for things to fall apart one day. Suddenly her friend isn’t her friend anymore but a dark entity with a stitched up mouth folks are calling Scarecrow; shifters are real and one becomes her friend; while sentient instruments are looking to kill her left and right. Its nightmare after nightmare, but slowly the pieces start to come together, and it turns out Attley’s normal life is never going to be normal again.

This comic is officially COMPLETE as of 2024! It was Tas’ longest running webcomic! They’ve been working on it since they were 19 so its certainly been around a little while clocking in at (well) over 600 comic pages. The final chapters are structured in script form with illustrations via a PDF you can download the ending for free!

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ATTLEY

Attley Grimshaw (she/her) is naive, reckless, and stubborn, but she’s also loyal and determined. Empathizing with others isn’t a strong suit for her, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t try. She’s now trying to find answers about the city and, more importantly, about herself.

FLETCH

Fletch Gray (he/him) acts cold and distant, but the reality is deep down has a good heart. He uses magic to shift into a seagull, which he has done so much now that his hair has become feathers, and has seagull features on his face.

POSEY

Posey Morris (she/her) was Attley’s friend, but it turns out she had other motives. Although she looks like a young girl, she’s really one of the handful of Scarecrow that have returned to haunt the city. Just what does she want with Attley, though?

SAMMY

Sammy Talbot (he/him) is, like Posey, one of the Scarecrow–creatures that use fear to target and feed on humans. Although he’s very powerful, he is pretty naive, and often is the one going along with someone else’s plan rather than his own.

STEVEN

Steven Anton-Frans (he/him) is one of the instrumen: instruments that have been given life to become like humans, with abilities and weapons to defend the city–in this case, a flute. He is very, very proud of himself–maybe a bit more than he should be…

NIMBUS, LUTH, BEE

Nimbus Owens (he/him) is the heir to the city. After the death of the Director, he should be next in line but… he’s AWOL.

Luth (they/them) is another instruman, this time a cello. They are very cunning but also might like the sound of their own voice too much.

Bee (she/her) is a clown in Donovan Sparc’s Magical Circus, her sweet caring temper being enough to distract from the magical mishap that left her body disjointed.

DONOVAN, TEDLEY, RIOS

Donovan Sparc (he/him) is an ex-shifter who runs the well-known Donovan Sparc’s Magical Circus. It seems, though, he has a little more to his backstory.

Dr. Tedley King (he/him) is a man who has ties all the way up to the Director, but perhaps has his hands in much more.

Miss Rios (she/her) is the head of the Nameless Organization, an underground group that handles all things magic. She’s a little flighty and her curiosity usually gets the better of her.

THE SANITY CIRCUS VOL.1

There were plans to print the entire comic in 3 books of roughly 300 pages each but as the comic progressed, the task started to feel a bit too big for the two of us to handle. A lot of the pages weren’t formatted quite right for print which meant going through and formatting all of those to fit 300 dpi. Safe to say this comic works best in its natural form: a webcomic. No shame in that!

THE ART OF THE SANITY CIRCUS

When we printed the first collected volume of SanCirc, we also offered a stretch goal to print an artbook with all of the illustrations Tas had made in the years spent working on and up to the comic itself.

It was a really neat thing to have on the table for a few years alongside the first volume. Some of the artwork in this book & PDF can’t be found anywhere else (not even in our hard-drives woops.)