American film director (born 1955)
Nick Bougas
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Bougas in 2008
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Born
| 1955 (age 68–69)
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Other names
| A. Wyatt Mann
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Occupation(s)
| Film director, illustrator, record producer, cartoonist
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Years active
| 1977?present
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Nick Bougas
(born 1955) is an American documentary film director, illustrator and record producer.
[1]
As a
cartoonist
, he has used the
pen name
A. Wyatt Mann
to produce
racist
,
antisemitic
,
antifeminist
and
homophobic
cartoons.
[2]
[3]
[4]
Career
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Bougas directed the
mondo film
Death Scenes
, hosted by
Church of Satan
founder
Anton LaVey
.
[5]
The film was followed by
Death Scenes 2
in 1992,
[6]
and
Death Scenes 3
in 1993.
[7]
In 1993, he directed the documentary
Speak 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 documentary
The Goddess Bunny
, about disabled transgender
tap dancing
artist
Sandie Crisp
.
[10]
[11]
In 1998, Bougas released the album
Celebrities... At Their Worst!
, a collection of comedic audio blunders by such celebrities as
Elvis Presley
,
Casey Kasem
,
Paul Anka
, and
John Wayne
.
[12]
[13]
As an illustrator, Bougas has worked with writer and publisher
Jim Goad
on such publications as
Answer Me!
[14]
[15]
A. Wyatt Mann
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According to a 2015
BuzzFeed News
report, Bougas used the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann" (phonetically: 'a white man') to produce overtly
racist
and
antisemitic
cartoons in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
[3]
Besides
black people
and
Jews
, his cartoons occasionally targeted other
minorities
, including
gay people
and
feminists
. Many of them were published at the time by
white supremacist
Tom Metzger
and
Feral House
publisher
Adam 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 hateful
memes
by white supremacists, various
internet trolls
, and later, the
alt-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 as
4chan
.
[2]
[3]
[16]
[17]
Bougas' work as Mann has frequently been combined by Internet trolls with cartoons by political cartoonist
Ben Garrison
, which Garrison has said generates confusion between the two artists.
[2]
[18]
Selected filmography
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References
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a
b
Barton, Blanche
(2014) [1990].
"Dance Macabre"
.
The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey
(Revised ed.).
Feral House
. p. 253.
ISBN
978-1-62731-002-4
.
- ^
a
b
c
Ellis, Emma Grey (June 19, 2017).
"The Alt-Right Found Its Favorite Cartoonist?and Almost Ruined His Life"
.
Wired
.
Archived
from the original on July 2, 2018
. Retrieved
May 28,
2019
.
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.
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a
b
c
d
Bernstein, Joseph (February 5, 2015).
"The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image"
.
BuzzFeed News
.
Archived
from the original on February 28, 2019
. Retrieved
December 4,
2018
.
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.
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Malice, Michael
(May 19, 2019).
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
. St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 40.
ISBN
978-1-250-15467-5
.
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.
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Robert Firsching (2016).
"Death Scenes (1989)"
. Movies & TV Dept.
The New York Times
. Archived from
the original
on March 7, 2016.
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Robert Firsching (2016).
"Death Scenes 2 (1992)"
. Movies & TV Dept.
The New York Times
. Archived from
the original
on March 9, 2016.
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"Death Scenes 3 (1993)"
.
Rotten Tomatoes
.
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Lewis, James R. (2001).
Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture
.
ABC-CLIO
. p. 147.
ISBN
978-1-57607-292-9
.
LCCN
2001005141
.
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Boulware, Jack (November 19, 1997).
"Slap Shots"
.
SF Weekly
.
Archived
from the original on September 15, 2017.
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"The Goddess Bunny"
.
Archived
from the original on May 10, 2017 – via VHS Collector.
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"The Goddess Bunny"
. Movies & TV Dept.
The New York Times
. 2016. Archived from
the original
on March 25, 2016.
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"Weird Record of the Month"
.
CMJ New Music Monthly
. September 1998. p. 13
. Retrieved
May 5,
2020
.
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Pearson, Paul.
"Celebrities... At Their Worst!"
.
AllMusic
.
Archived
from the original on March 12, 2016.
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Pafrey, Adam
(1994).
"Fucking Andrea Dworkin"
(PDF)
.
Answer Me!
. No. 4. pp. 50?53.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on June 19, 2018 – via JimGoad.net.
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O'Brien, Luke (May 30, 2019).
"Twitter Still Has A White Nationalist Problem"
.
HuffPost
.
Archived
from the original on August 22, 2019
. Retrieved
May 5,
2020
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Jim Goad is the former editor of
Answer 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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Ward, Justin (April 19, 2018).
"Day of the trope: White nationalist memes thrive on Reddit's r/The_Donald"
.
Hatewatch
.
Southern Poverty Law Center
. Archived from
the original
on February 19, 2020
. Retrieved
February 18,
2020
.
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"General Hate Symbols : The Happy Merchant"
.
Anti-Defamation League
. Retrieved
June 30,
2020
.
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Malice, Michael
(2019).
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-1-250-15467-5
.
LCCN
2018056038
. Retrieved
February 18,
2020
.
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