# Nick Bougas
**Nick Bougas** (born 1955 in [Savannah, Georgia](https://www.edgepedia.org/savannah-georgia)) is an American documentary film director, producer, illustrator and cartoonist, known for the *Death Scenes* series of direct-to-video documentaries and for having been identified in 2015 as the pseudonymous cartoonist **A. Wyatt Mann**, whose drawings circulated widely on white supremacist internet forums[1](https://posts24.ru/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA) • [2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit). Television databases credit him as producer, director, writer, actor, and art department worker[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955, Savannah, Georgia, United States[1](https://posts24.ru/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA) |
| Profession | Documentary director, producer, writer, actor, illustrator[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/) |
| Documentary output | 13 titles recorded from 1989 to 2005, including the *Death Scenes* trilogy, *Death in Hollywood* (1990), and *Charles Manson Then and Now* (1992)[4](https://www.documentarytube.com/best/documentaries-by-nick-bougas/) |
| Cartoonist identity | BuzzFeed News reported in February 2015 that he is the cartoonist A. Wyatt Mann, a pun on "a white man"[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit) • [5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann) |
| Confirmation | Identified by Adam Parfrey, a collaborator on *Answer Me!*, and by Zeena Schreck through a spokesperson; Bougas did not respond to requests for comment[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit) |
| Other credits | Illustrator and research consultant on *Charles Manson Superstar*; actor in *Blood Slaves of the Vampire Werewolf* and *F.A.R.T.: The Movie* (1991)[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/) |
| Internet spread | His cartoons gained a following on 4chan's /b/ and /pol/ boards and on Stormfront[5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann) |
## Documentary filmmaking
Bougas directed, and often produced or wrote, a series of documentary films released between 1989 and 2005. DocumentaryTube's catalog, drawn from Wikidata, lists 13 titles credited to him, beginning with *Death Scenes* (1989, 82 minutes) and running through *Death in Hollywood* (1990), *When the Applause Died* (1990), *Death Scenes 2* (1992), *Charles Manson Then and Now* (1992), *Sinatra: An Unauthorized Biography of the Legend* (1992), *Death Scenes 3* (1993), *Speak of the Devil* (1993), *Burn Baby Burn: Riots and Violence in the Modern World* (1993), *Serial Killers* (1994), and *The Goddess Bunny* (1994)[4](https://www.documentarytube.com/best/documentaries-by-nick-bougas/). [TV Guide](https://www.edgepedia.org/tv-guide) credits him as director of *Death Scenes*, *Death Scenes 2*, and *When The Applause Died*, and as producer on those titles plus *Story of Elvis Presley*[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/).
Much of the output centers on death, crime, and Hollywood history. *Death in Hollywood* (1 hour 29 minutes, TV-14) and *When the Applause Died* (1 hour 27 minutes, TV-14) are documentaries about Hollywood deaths, and *The Serial Killers* (1994) is a crime documentary rated TV-MA; several are available on the streaming service Tubi[6](https://tubitv.com/person/884114/nick-bougas).
Subject matter connected Bougas to controversial figures. BuzzFeed News described him as a cult director and producer who was also one of the first collectors of "murderabilia", and noted that he made documentaries about both [Charles Manson](https://www.edgepedia.org/charles-manson) and [Anton LaVey](https://www.edgepedia.org/anton-lavey), founder of the Church of Satan[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit). He took part in the 8-8-88 Satanist rally in San Francisco, where a photograph hosted on the Facebook account of the Satanist Nikolas Schreck labels him "A. Wyatt Mann"[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit). On *Charles Manson Superstar* he is credited as illustrator and research consultant[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/), and he acted in low-budget genre films including *F.A.R.T.: The Movie* (1991), in which he played a dancer[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/) • [7](https://filmbladet.dk/mennesker/nick-bougas).
## A. Wyatt Mann
Under the name **A. Wyatt Mann**, a pun on "a white man", Bougas drew political cartoons with white supremacist and anti-Semitic themes. The original illustrations were drawn in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the pseudonymous drawings, including the anti-Semitic "Happy Merchant" image, later spread through 4chan[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit) • [5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann). Know Your Meme records that a section for the drawings appeared on Resist.com, the site of White Aryan Resistance founder [Tom Metzger](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-metzger), and that the cartoons gained a cult following on the /b/ and /pol/ boards, where they were used as exploitables[5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann).
Bougas also did provocative illustrations for *[Answer Me!](https://www.edgepedia.org/answer-me)*, the "anti-PC" zine published by Jim and Debbie Goad from 1991 to 1994 in Los Angeles and [Portland, Oregon](https://www.edgepedia.org/portland-oregon)[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit).
The February 5, 2015 BuzzFeed News article by editor [Joseph Bernstein](https://www.edgepedia.org/joseph-bernstein) traced the history of the Happy Merchant image and pointed to Bougas as its creator[5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann). Bougas did not respond to the outlet's emails and phone calls, but the identification was confirmed by Adam Parfrey, who wrote the "Fucking Andrea Dworkin" article for *Answer Me!* and said Bougas openly discussed the cartoons, and by [Zeena Schreck](https://www.edgepedia.org/zeena-schreck), daughter of Anton LaVey, through a spokesperson; a 1990 photograph credited to A. Wyatt Mann appears in a 2012 Vice interview with Schreck[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit). BuzzFeed's reporting stated that one could call Bougas the most widely disseminated anti-Semitic cartoonist of all time and "not be wrong"[2](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit).
Before the identification, internet communities had pursued two main candidates: Wyatt Kaldenberg, a former white supremacist, and Bougas. Kaldenberg denied being Mann, first in a Facebook post on February 20, 2014, and later in a Google+ post of September 10, 2014 pointing to Bougas; a /pol/ thread of July 11, 2014 announced that Mann was Bougas[5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann). In 2009, 4chan users had also edited [Ben Garrison](https://www.edgepedia.org/ben-garrison)'s political cartoons with Mann's illustrations to try to frame Garrison as a white supremacist, a practice that produced confusion between the two artists' work[5](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann).
## References
1. [Бугас, Ник, posts24.ru](https://posts24.ru/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA)
2. [The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image, BuzzFeed News (Joseph Bernstein, 2015)](https://proxy.goincop1.workers.dev/https/www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit)
3. [Nick Bougas List of Movies and TV Shows, TV Guide](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-bougas/credits/3000381955/)
4. [Documentaries Directed by Nick Bougas, DocumentaryTube](https://www.documentarytube.com/best/documentaries-by-nick-bougas/)
5. [A. Wyatt Mann, Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/people/a-wyatt-mann)
6. [Nick Bougas's Movies and TV Shows, Tubi](https://tubitv.com/person/884114/nick-bougas)
7. [Nick Bougas, Filmbladet](https://filmbladet.dk/mennesker/nick-bougas)
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