A Pepe cartoon released Saturday in comic book stores shows Matt Furie's creation in an open casket. Furie didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday.

Pepe memes promoting Donald Trump's presidential campaign became so ubiquitous that Trump himself tweeted an image blending his likeness with the cartoon frog in October 2015.

But Pepe the Frog wasn’t always considered a hate symbol. The frog first appeared in Matt Furie's Boy's Club cartoons in 2005.

Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie, which took off in the MySpace era, becoming one of the most popular memes ...

Pepe memes promoting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign became so ubiquitous that Trump himself tweeted an image blending his likeness with the cartoon frog in October 2015.

Pepe was invented by Furie in 2006 as part of the comic series, Boy’s Club. “At his creation, Pepe was a ‘peaceful frog-dude’ — a kind and blissful cartoon character, who lived alongside ...

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 ...

Pepe Le Pew made his official debut in 1949's Oscar-winning "For Scent-imental Reasons," according to "Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation," by Reid ...