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 ...
Jason Furie and Matt Furie's are attempting to revive and rebrand the Pepe The Frog cartoon character, seized by the alt-right and white supremacists as a random mascot, logo and symbol and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- With the same comic cool with which he created him, cartoonist Matt Furie has killed off his character, 'Pepe the Frog' after the carefree amphibian was hijacked by far-right ...
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 ...