Introduction
Nick Bougas (born 1955) 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 Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey, 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. Bougas' 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 and the alt-right. Bougas has not responded to the allegations. Bougas' work as Mann has frequently been combined with cartoons by political cartoonist Ben Garrison as a means for internet trolls to make the latter's work more overtly racist.
Selected filmography
- 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)