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 »

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 »

Banning books has been on a lot of people’s minds recently. It’s a terrifying phenomenon that speaks to some of our most reactionary and uncritical impulses. Maybe today we should take… Read more »

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 »

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 »