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[Hide] (99.1KB, 1236x850) >Back when I first began posting my new series of color Merchants for the Chanfolks, I started to marvel at the staggering memetic skills some of the lads possessed. There was one standout fellow whose work everyone admired. Once when posting a new Manntoon, I took a moment to praise this talented fellow by telling him how much I enjoyed his mastery of this delightfully sardonic new form of visual expression called “memes”. He replied, “It’s only natural that you’d appreciate memes, after all . . . YOU invented them.”
>With that, a slew of other Chansters began piling on and also declaring that this or that classic Manntoon was their first exposure to a meme format . . . “Around Blacks, Never Relax.”, “With Jews, you Lose” and “Hey Rabbi, Watcha Doin’?!”. I had never thought about it until that moment, but many of the best loved Mann images do indeed follow the traditional meme structure perfectly, which is a tidy package that combines a brief smart-ass statement with a pertinent comical image. Hearing those kids giving this aging inkster that grand a compliment was something I’ll always cherish. As far as being pseudonymous, my true identity is easy to find online. I have a large body of work that is attributed to my real self and a massive archive that is absolutely the work of A. Wyatt Mann, alone. For that reason, I’d prefer to keep the two separate and let Mann take the credit for what is so obviously his ow