The creator of the meme “Pepe the Frog” is speaking out in an attempt to reclaim the cartoon, whose image has been co-opted by fringe Internet trolls to advance white supremacist and anti ...

Both the artist and the cartoon character are the subjects of Arthur Jones’s Feels Good Man, a comprehensive and disturbing tale of how the Internet operated in the 2010s.Pepe the Frog is ...

Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image has been co-opted by antisemites and white nationalists associated with the the alt-right, has been killed off by his creator. A Pepe cartoon ...

Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie, which took off in the MySpace era, becoming one of the most popular memes ...

Pepe the Frog, the “once peaceful frog dude” meme that was co-opted by trolls and transformed into a symbol of racism and bigotry, has croaked. Artist and illustrator Matt Furie, who ...

Pepe the Frog, the meme that was transformed from a “once peaceful frog dude” into a symbol of hatred and racism by the far-right, has croaked. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

Both are well-suited to tell the vivid tale of artist Matt Furie and his poor cartoon frog creation, Pepe, who went on a long strange, horrible trip far from his sanguine beginnings: Jones is a ...

Pepe was invented by Furie in 2006 as part of the comic series, Boy’s Club.. “At his creation, Pepe was a ‘peaceful frog-dude’ — a kind and blissful cartoon character, who lived ...

The Confederate flag. Burning crosses. The Nazi swastika. Pepe the Frog. One of those may not sound like the others, but according to the Anti-Defamation League, they’re all hate symbols. On ...

Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe The Frog, killed off the cartoon-version in his latest comic strip. Sound+Vision. Sound+Vision Awards Annual Honors For Creative Direction; Sound ...