Shane Bugbee

Bugbee started his career as a zinester in 1986 establishing Michael Hunt Publishing, he began publishing cartoonist Mike Diana during his obscenity trial in his zine Naked Aggression. Bugbee was a strong supporter of Diana, and acted as his publisher and manager for nearly a decade. Bugbee hosted Diana's first solo art show at Goat Gallery in Chicago in Dec. 1994.{{cite news |last1=Wyman |first1=Bill |title=Obscenities/Schmitsville |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/obscenitiesschmitsville/Content?oid=886209|date=December 8, 1994|access-date=22 June 2019 |work=Chicago Reader |language=en}}

In 1992 Bugbee became an agent of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy art, eventually publishing Gacy's bio "A Question of Doubt".{{cite news |last1=Felshman |first1=Jeffrey |title=Chi Lives: making a killing off John Wayne Gacy |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chi-lives-making-a-killing-off-john-wayne-gacy/Content?oid=915579 |work=Chicago Reader |date=May 27, 2004 |language=en}} Bugbee met his now ex-wife Amy in 1994 at the Goat Gallery, and the two married in 1996.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/shane-bugbee-searched-for-the-bad-side-of-america-and-didnt-find-it/|title=Shane Bugbee Searched for the Bad Side of America and Didn't Find It|first=River|last=Donaghey|date=May 29, 2013|website=vice.com}}

A self-proclaimed expert in the subject of serial killers,{{cite web|url=http://www.festivalofthedead.com/media/05/bostonglobe_criticismbrewsoverkillertalk.html|title=Festival of the Dead - In the News|author=|date=|website=Festival of the Dead}} Bugbee has spoken extensively on the subject, even touring a collection of artifacts including Ed Gein's tombstone.{{cite web|url=https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Police-grab-grave-marker-promoted-as-serial-1055822.php|title=Police grab grave marker promoted as serial killer's|date=28 May 2001|website=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=23 July 2019}} These "side show" style speaking engagements have drawn criticism as exploitive{{cite web|url=https://www.trutv.com/index.html|title=truTV - Funny Because it's tru|author=|date=|website=truTV}} and over the edge. Salem, Massachusetts Mayor Stanley Usovicz tried to stop one event, calling it "an outrage"{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/10/20/criticism_brews_over_killer_talk/|title=Criticism brews over 'killer' talk - The Boston Globe|author=Steven Rosenberg|date=October 20, 2005|website=www.boston.com}} after Bugbee displayed Ed Gein's truck in the center of Salem's downtown area.

Starting in 2001, he organized and extensively promoted a new tour entitled "The Angry White Male" tour. featuring not only Mike Dianna, but controversial zine writer Jim Goad and decorated with confederate flags.

Bugbee created his own blueberry soda pop, Ely Elixir.{{cite web|url=http://timberjay.com/current.php?article=1746|title=New Ely-designed soda hitting the shelves|author=Foss|first=Steve|date=24 July 2001|website=timberjay.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105053110/http://timberjay.com/current.php?article=1746|archive-date=5 November 2007}} The popularity of the soda led to wider revelation of Bugbee's other entrepreneurial and artistic endeavors, eventually ending in controversy and exile.{{cite web|url=http://www.citypages.com/2007-04-04/news/sympathy-for-the-devil|title=Sympathy for the Devil|author=Demko|first=Paul|date=4 April 2007|website=citypages.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704022929/http://www.citypages.com/2007-04-04/news/sympathy-for-the-devil/|archive-date=4 July 2010|access-date=24 July 2019}}

Bugbee turned his attention to environmental and political concerns with the Angry White Male tour. The tour was received with mixed reviews. Author Cristien Storm noted that the tour featured Jim Goad, a figure associated with the alt-right movement, and that confederate flags were used in its marketing. She saw this as platforming and mainstreaming white nationalism, and in response founded the Northwest Club Coalition, a network of artists and musicians dedicated to fighting fascism in music and art spaces.{{cite web|url=https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/blog/have-fun-fight-fascism/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622094229/https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/blog/have-fun-fight-fascism/ |archive-date=2019-06-22 |title=Have Fun! Fight Fascism!|author=Storm|first=Christien|date=13 September 2018|website=North Atlantic Books}} Bugbee was a winner in the Willie Nelson peaceful solution video contest.{{cite web|url=http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/309/a-peaceful-solution-shane-bugbee.html|title=A Peaceful Solution Shane Bugbee|date=3 August 2007|website=willienelsonpri.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102051134/http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/309/a-peaceful-solution-shane-bugbee.html|archive-date=2 January 2010|access-date=23 July 2019}} From Nov. 4 2007 until Nov. 5, 2008 Bugbee embarked on a year long road trip called A Year At The Wheel {{cite web|url=http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/trial-and-error/2008/10/wheel_offers_a_different_take.php|title='Wheel' Offers a Different Take on America|date=22 October 2008|website=tvweek.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025091117/https://www.tvweek.com/blogs/trial-and-error/2008/10/wheel_offers_a_different_take.php|archive-date=25 October 2008|access-date=23 July 2019}} covering art, politics, religion and revolution which culminated into a book and documentary release.

Bugbee talked to many along the way from small town workers to Timothy Wyllie of the Process Church of the Final Judgment{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/58188326|title=Timothy Wyllie - Mountainair, NM - Part 1|author=|date=|website=Vimeo}} settled in a small beach town in 2008 in the southeast corner of Washington state after the road trip. Shortly after arriving he began using sculpture as a medium of expression, producing dozens of works which have been exhibited in various shows. He was interviewed about his art in ArtSync magazine in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.shanebugbee.com/?p=1261|title=PRESS: Interview – The World's Biggest Troublemaker. - shane bugbee|author=|date=|website=shanebugbee.com}} He interviewed Dagon from the black metal band Inquisition.{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/94992303|title=art, genocide, free speech and black metal - dagon from the band inquisition pt.1|author=Shane Bugbee|date=|website=Vimeo}} and Nergal from Behemoth on the nature of Christianity and Catholicism in Poland.{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/97391578|title=the hope that christianity never dies… nergal of extreme metal band behemoth talks the religion of doubt|author=|date=|website=Vimeo}} he also interviewed Portland Artist Jesse Reno on art, dangerous art, censorship, and how one would define art. {{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/218546876|title=jesse reno talks art, dangerous art, obsession and manipulation thru art.|author=|date=|website=Vimeo}}

Starting in 2011, Bugbee was a member of the Center for Healing Spiritual and Cultic Abuse, an anti-cult lobbying group and served as an advisor for Satanic cults.{{cite web|url=http://thechsca.org/what-we-do/our-advisory-board/shane-bugbee|title=Shane Bugbee|author=|date=August 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802014050/http://thechsca.org/what-we-do/our-advisory-board/shane-bugbee|archive-date=August 2, 2011}} The advisory board featured Doug Mesner and Michael Shermer of Skeptic magazine. Starting in 2012, he organized as festival called WTF Fest, the tour, which appeared in 5 cities included poet and revolutionary John Sinclair, Star Trek artist Dave Archer, known for painting with a million volt Tesla Coil, scream queen Ruby LaRocca, and Dave Densmore a poet and commercial fisherman. The show included additional musical guests. it received mixed reviews.{{cite news |last1=Valentine |first1=Andy |title=Aleister Crowley: Renegade Egg-Layer |url=http://www.eugeneweekly.com/article/aleister-crowley-renegade-egg-layer |work=Eugene Weekley |date=April 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511073446/http://www.eugeneweekly.com/article/aleister-crowley-renegade-egg-layer |archive-date=May 11, 2012}}

Additionally in 2014, he and a partner developed a concept for an underground news show called "Counterculture" with Natalia Garcia that was pitched to Showtime and other networks although the project was not picked up. Natalia Garcia later left to continue working on her series Polyamory.{{cite web|url=https://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/|title=Polyamory in the News: October 2013|author=|date=|website=polyinthemedia.blogspot.com}}[http://www.shanebugbee.com/deck4_efinal_11_27.pdf COUNTERCULTURE: PITCH]{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/113482612|title=COUNTERCULTURE MONTAGE REEL|author=|date=|website=Vimeo}} The pilot included a tour of the Ku Klux Klan Museum, interviews with Charles Manson's wife 'Star' as she planted trees for ATWA, and Frank Kozik, as well as an interview with Karla LaVey. The pitch was to follow three topics and show both left and right, along with the decay of American culture including interviews with Chicago Occupy Wallstreet protestors.

In October 2015, Bugbee with fellow artist and friend Dave Archer, did a show at AFRU Gallery in Portland, the exhibit titled "Black Magic House Blessings and Fukushima Death Curses" featuring his sculptures and Dave Archer's wood burnings. It received favorable reviews in local press.{{Cite web|url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/events/16563673/black-magic-house-blessings-and-fukushima-death-curses|title=Black Magic House Blessings and Fukushima Death Curses|website=Portland Mercury|language=en|access-date=23 July 2019}} In 2018, he started the podcast Love, Loss, and Despair,{{cite web|url=https://anchor.fm/shanebugbee/episodes/LOVE-AND-LOSS-pt-1-Heading-to-Chicago--The-beginning-of-the-rest-e3h1nm|title=LOVE AND LOSS pt.1 Heading to Chicago. The beginning of the rest by The Tangible Formula for Love and Loss Despair and Joy and the Triumph and Failure of the Collective Will. • A podcast on Anchor|author=|date=|website=Anchor}} addressing among other things his recent divorce, the publishing of Might is Right, his first encounters and meeting with Katja Lane wife of White Nationalist David Lane, the failure of "A Year at The Wheel" to lock-in a final edit, his rivalry with artist Steven Johnson Leyba, and his admission into the Church of Satan.

Bugbee has been profiled in The Chicago Reader{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/shocks-to-the-system/Content?oid=891199|title=Shocks to the System|author=Sula|first=Mike|date=8 August 1996|website=Chicago Reader|access-date=23 July 2019}} and Spin Magazine (September 2001) during the underground publishing boom. Bugbee was featured on the cover of The Chicago Reader; the feature was titled "Shocks to the System".

Bugbee has been a guest on Court TV with Nancy Grace. He appeared on E! True Hollywood Story regarding Dana Plato. A full chapter from the book ART THAT KILLS by George Petros is dedicated to Bugbee. The book covers the Transgressive Art Movement from 1984-2000.{{cite web|url=http://georgepetros.com/writings/gen/atk_chap1.htm|title=ART THAT KILLS Chapter One|author=|date=|website=georgepetros.com}}

In 2013, Bugbee spoke at Harvard University about his book and movie The Suffering and Celebration of Life In America.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/5/1/Bugbees-Roadtrip-To-Harvard|title=Couple Shares Road Trip Experiences at GSE|author=Pottash|first=Samuel C.|date=1 May 2013|website=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=23 July 2019}}

Jody Picoult's 2010 bestseller House Rules begins with discussion about Bugbee and the cookbook he put out with serial killer Dorothea Puente.

• Naked Aggression magazine 1991-93, by various
• Superfly 1, by Mike Diana 1993
• For the Love of Bijork, by Al Frank 1993
• Dixie Do Me, by Lisa Brosig 1993
• Chicago Cartoon comix magazine 1993, by various (editor)
• Worst of Boiled Angel, by Mike Diana, 1996
• Extermination Zone, by Randall Phillips, 1996
• MF Magazine 1995, 1996, 1997 by various
• Chicago At Night adult newspaper 1998,1999, by various (editor)
• Dana Plato's Last Breath, book & CD, by Shane Bugbee, 1999
• Superfly 2 by, Mike Diana 2000
• Bad Pill's, by Sverre H Kristensen 2000
• Slipknot comic, by Tony Kelly 2000
• ANSWER Me! #4, by Jim Goad 2001 (reprint)
• Cooking With A Serial Killer, with Dorothea Puente, 2004
• Might is Right, with Anton LaVey, 1996, 2006, 2013
• The Trench Coat Diaries, by Shane Bugbee 1999
• Ely Pride arts and entertainment magazine 2006, by various (editor)
• The Suffering & Celebration of Life in America, by Shane Bugbee (2012){{Cite web|url=http://www.usaodd.com/|title=The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America|website=The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018191753/http://www.usaodd.com/|archive-date=18 October 2012|access-date=4 July 2019}}

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• [http://www.shanebugbee.com Shane Bugbee personal website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071206040650/http://www.pollystaffle.com/specialfeatures/ayearatthewheel.shtml pollystaffle Magazine interview/article], Nov 2007
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080531034315/http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/show_show.php?show=99 Audio interview - Shane and Amy Bugbee Save the World!]

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