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| Born | Nicholas Bougas 1955 (age 69–70) Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Other names | A. Wyatt Mann |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, illustrator, record producer, cartoonist |
| Years active | 1977–present |
Nicholas Bougas (born 1955) is an American documentary film director,white supremacist, illustrator,Satanist and record producer.[1] As acartoonist, he has used thepen nameA. Wyatt Mann to produceracist,antisemitic,antifeminist andhomophobic cartoons.[2][3][4]
Bougas directed themondo filmDeath Scenes, hosted byChurch of Satan founderAnton LaVey.[5] The film was followed byDeath Scenes 2 in 1992,[6] andDeath Scenes 3 in 1993.[7]
In 1993, he directed the documentarySpeak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey, a profile of LaVey.[1][8][9]
Bougas has directed several other films, such as the 1994 documentaryThe Goddess Bunny, about disabled transgendertap dancing artistSandie Crisp.[10][11]
In 1998, Bougas released the albumCelebrities... At Their Worst!, a collection of comedic audio blunders by such celebrities asElvis Presley,Casey Kasem,Paul Anka, andJohn Wayne.[12][13]
As an illustrator, Bougas has worked with writer and publisherJim Goad on such publications asAnswer Me![14][15]
According to a 2015BuzzFeed News report, Bougas used the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann" (phonetically: 'a white man') to produce overtlyracist andantisemitic cartoons in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[3]
Besidesblack people andJews, his cartoons occasionally targeted otherminorities and groups, includinggay people andfeminists. Many of them were published at the time bywhite supremacistTom Metzger andFeral House publisherAdam Parfrey. Bougas has never publicly confirmed his authorship; however, his identity as Mann was confirmed by multiple people who worked with him at the time, and in captions of photos taken at various events.[3]
The Mann cartoons have been widely reused as hatefulmemes by white supremacists, variousinternet trolls, and later, thealt-right. One cartoon in particular, a stereotypical caricature of a Jewish person referred to as the "Happy Merchant", became one of the most popular antisemitic images on the internet. It has been reused, modified and parodied multiple times, eventually becoming part of the visual language of websites such as4chan.[2][3][16][17]
Bougas' work as Mann has frequently been combined by Internet trolls with cartoons by political cartoonistBen Garrison, which Garrison has said generates confusion between the two artists.[2][18]
But internet anti-Semites (or at least people fishing for a reaction) started splicing Garrison's work together with the work of Nick Bougas, aka A. Wyatt Man, a director and illustrator responsible for one of the web's most enduring anti-Semitic images.
So. You could stop right there and say that Nick Bougas is the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and not be wrong.
Under the pen name of 'A. Wyatt Mann,' artist Nick Bougas has drawn many explicitly racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic cartoons where there isn't even a pretense of humor.
Jim Goad is the former editor ofAnswer Me!, a magazine that ran from 1991 to 1994 and often featured the artwork of racist cartoonist Nick Bougas (Bougas published elsewhere under the pseudonym A. Wyatt Mann).
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