The image of the online cartoon character was co-opted by anti-Semites and white nationalists associated with the "alt-right." (JTA) — Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image was ...

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A Pepe cartoon ...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has officially declared the Pepe the Frog cartoon a hate symbol. The internet meme, created by cartoonist Matt Furie back in 2005, has recently been adopted by ...

Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog that became a white supremacist symbol, has been killed off by its creator. (See the final strip at the bottom of this post.) Pepe’s creator and illustrator Matt Furie ...

Still, it’s not entirely an accident that Pepe has been coopted in this way. For well over 100 years American artists, both racists and anti-racists, have found animal cartoons an effective way to ...

In 2005, artist Matt Furie published the first edition of Boy’s Club, a comic book starring four friends living in the hedonistic and aimless haze of their post-college, early-20s. There was Landwolf, ...