Nick Bougas


Nick Bougas is an American documentary film director, illustrator, and record producer. As a cartoonist, he has used the pen name A. Wyatt Mann to produce racist and antisemitic cartoons.

Career

Bougas directed the mondo film Death Scenes, hosted by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey. The film was followed by Death Scenes 2 in 1992, and Death Scenes 3 in 1993.
In 1993, he directed the documentary , a profile of LaVey.
Bougas has directed several other films, such as the 1994 documentary The Goddess Bunny, about a disabled tap dancing artist.
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.
As an illustrator, Bougas has worked with writer and publisher Jim Goad on such publications as Answer Me!

A. Wyatt Mann

According to a 2015 BuzzFeed News report, Bougas used the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann" to produce overtly racist and antisemitic cartoons in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Besides Africans and Jews, his cartoons occasionally targeted other minorities, gays, and feminists. Many of them were published at the time by white supremacist Tom Metzger. Bougas has not responded to the allegations but 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. The Mann cartoons have been widely reused as memes by white supremacists as well as by various internet trolls, and later by the alt-right. One of them, a caricature of a Jew, became one of most popular antisemitic images on the internet. It was reused, modified and parodied multiple times, eventually becoming part of the visual languages of websites such as Reddit and 4chan. Bougas' work as Mann has frequently been combined with cartoons by political cartoonist Ben Garrison as a means for internet trolls to generate confusion between the two artists and make Garrison's work look racist.

Selected filmography