New Pepe zine hopes to reestablish the cartoon frog as a symbol of love and acceptance
Matt Furie, the cartoonist responsible for the creation of Pepe the Frog, that iconic and most troubling of cartoons-turned-memes, has had a tough, and very weird, couple of years. We’ve… Read more »
Cartoonist Matt Furie kills Pepe the Frog
This past Saturday, to celebrate Free Comic Book Day, illustrator and cartoonist Matt Furie killed Pepe the Frog. In a single-page, six-panel comic released by Fantagraphics, the peace-loving, free-living, pot-smoking… Read more »
#SavePepe: Matt Furie, fellow artists, and the Anti-Defamation League team up to cover the internet with posi Pepes
To quote a colleague, “This fucking election.” Earlier this month, we reported on the alt-right’s hijacking of the Internet’s favorite cartoon amphibian, Pepe the Frog. Yes, somewhere over the course… Read more »
Make Pepe Great Again: Standing with Matt Furie
Oh man. This fucking election. As unrepentantly nasty as Donald Trump and his shock troops have been to so many—people with ovaries, people with disabilities, people who worship the same God Trump… Read more »