Nicholas Bougas(born 1955) is an American documentary film director,white supremacist,illustrator,Satanistand record producer.[1]As acartoonist,he has used thepen nameA. Wyatt Mannto produceracist,antisemitic,antifeministandhomophobiccartoons.[2][3][4]
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 Bougas in 2008 | |
| 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 |
Career
editBougas directed themondo filmDeath Scenes,hosted byChurch of SatanfounderAnton LaVey.[5]The film was followed byDeath Scenes 2in 1992,[6]andDeath Scenes 3in 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 dancingartistSandie 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 Goadon such publications asAnswer Me![14][15]
A. Wyatt Mann
editAccording to a 2015BuzzFeed Newsreport, Bougas used the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann" (phonetically: 'a white man') to produce overtlyracistandantisemiticcartoons in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[3]
Besidesblack peopleandJews,his cartoons occasionally targeted otherminoritiesand groups, includinggay peopleandfeminists.Many of them were published at the time bywhite supremacistTom MetzgerandFeral HousepublisherAdam 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 hatefulmemesby 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]
Selected filmography
edit- Death Scenes(1989)
- Death Scenes 2(1992)
- Death Scenes 3(1993)
- Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey(1993)
- The Goddess Bunny(1994)
- Serial Killers(1994)
References
edit- ^abBarton, Blanche(2014) [1990]."Dance Macabre".The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey(Revised ed.).Feral House.p. 253.ISBN978-1-62731-002-4.
- ^abcEllis, Emma Grey (June 19, 2017)."The Alt-Right Found Its Favorite Cartoonist—and Almost Ruined His Life".Wired.Archivedfrom the original on July 2, 2018.RetrievedMay 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.
- ^abcdBernstein, Joseph (February 5, 2015)."The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image".BuzzFeed News.Archivedfrom the original on February 28, 2019.RetrievedDecember 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.
- ^Malice, Michael(May 19, 2019).The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics.St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 40.ISBN978-1-250-15467-5.
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.
- ^Robert Firsching (2016)."Death Scenes (1989)".Movies & TV Dept.The New York Times.Archived fromthe originalon March 7, 2016.
- ^Robert Firsching (2016)."Death Scenes 2 (1992)".Movies & TV Dept.The New York Times.Archived fromthe originalon March 9, 2016.
- ^"Death Scenes 3 (1993)".Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^Lewis, James R. (2001).Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture.ABC-CLIO.p. 147.ISBN978-1-57607-292-9.LCCN2001005141.
- ^Boulware, Jack (November 19, 1997)."Slap Shots".SF Weekly.Archivedfrom the original on September 15, 2017.
- ^"The Goddess Bunny".Archivedfrom the original on May 10, 2017 – via VHS Collector.
- ^"The Goddess Bunny".Movies & TV Dept.The New York Times.2016. Archived fromthe originalon March 25, 2016.
- ^"Weird Record of the Month".CMJ New Music Monthly.September 1998. p. 13.RetrievedMay 5,2020.
- ^Pearson, Paul."Celebrities... At Their Worst!".AllMusic.Archivedfrom the original on March 12, 2016.
- ^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.
- ^O'Brien, Luke (May 30, 2019)."Twitter Still Has A White Nationalist Problem".HuffPost.Archivedfrom the original on August 22, 2019.RetrievedMay 5,2020.
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).
- ^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 fromthe originalon February 19, 2020.RetrievedFebruary 18,2020.
- ^"General Hate Symbols: The Happy Merchant".Anti-Defamation League.RetrievedJune 30,2020.
- ^Malice, Michael(2019).The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics.St. Martin's Publishing Group.ISBN978-1-250-15467-5.LCCN2018056038.RetrievedFebruary 18,2020.