Bert Vaughn

Bert was staring at the door, smile already set on his face. It was his best professional smile, dripping with sincerity. His pale grey eyes sparkled with good cheer. It was a mask. He could put it on and off like a light switch. He'd wear the same smile if you confessed to killing your own mother. As long as you wanted to pay to have her raised from the dead.

(The Laughing Corpse, page 3, paragraph 9)

* Bert runs an animating company, Animator's Inc. They retain about 4-5 animators, who regularly raise people from the dead for a fee.

* During the "off season" between October (Halloween) and Christmas) Bert tries to bring in revenue from other sources, which annoys Anita to no end.

* Bert is now considered merely the business manager of Animator's Inc. The animators are full partners and they are the ones that run the show.