FOR THE RECORD, Oct. 11, 2016: This article incorrectly says the Pepe the Frog character first appeared in Boy's Life. It should have said Boy's Club.

Pepe’s original creator, Matt Furie, recently killed his infamous frog, by drawing a strip of him lying dead in a casket. Pepe may be dead inside the world of Furie’s comic strip, but online ...

But Pepe's creator says his frog, and the online phenomenon it spawned, is bigger than that. The Anti-Defamation League has added the cartoon amphibian to its list of hate symbols because the Pepe ...

Pepe the Frog is one of the most prolific images on the Internet. A new documentary follows the frog's creator, cartoonist Matt Furie, as he fights to regain control over his character.

His creator killed the frog in a comic strip, after the character spent much of 2016 tied to the alt-right. Pepe's sad tale is a modern parable of how awful the Internet can be.

Pepe started his life as a laid-back cartoon frog but memes transformed him into an alt-right villain. The evolution of this cultural phenomenon is emblematic of the relationship between online ...

Comic artist Matt Furie invented Pepe the Frog in 2005, and later stuck the character into his successful single-panel comic series Boy’s Club, which featured Pepe as one member of a band of ...

Pepe the Frog started as a character from a comic series, "Boy's Club" by Matt Furie in 2005, according to Know Your Meme.. While the somewhat sad-looking frog did not have racist or antisemitic ...

Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog’s latest incarnation as a symbol of white hate groups has landed him on the ADL’s list of hate symbols.

Before he was co-opted by hate groups, dressed in Nazi regalia and turned into a hate symbol, Pepe was the Internet’s chillest frog, the embodiment of “feels good, man.” Now, his creator is ...

Longerline: In 2005, Furie, a cartoonist based in San Francisco, uploaded his first digital comic to Myspace.In the early Boy’s Club comics, Pepe the Frog was one of four unremarkable ...