A controversial cartoon frog has been killed off by its creator. (Matt Furie) Pepe first appeared online around 2005, and was associated with the phrase "feels good man." ...

The frog first appeared in Matt Furie's Boy's Club cartoons in 2005. Known as the “sad frog,” Pepe was often depicted as a mellow character with the slogan “feels good, man,” among others.

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.

Meet Pepe the Frog. He's the latest symbol to be added to the Anti-Defamation League's hate symbols database. Yes, Pepe — who has also come to be known as Sad Frog — joins the ranks of the ...

(JTA) — Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image was co-opted by anti-Semites and white nationalists associated with the “alt-right,” has been killed off by his creator.

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 ...

Flip the Frog (left) in the Ub Iwerks studio’s 1930 cartoon “Fiddlesticks.” Wikimedia Commons Disney wasn’t the only cartoonist to draw inspiration from Herriman.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A series of images commonly used on internet message boards depicting a cartoon frog were designated as hate symbols by the Anti-Defamation League.

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 neo ...

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 ...

The ADL said that racists and haters took Pepe the Frog and twisted it. In one recent image, Pepe was depicted as Adolf Hitler and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group.

Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog that became a white supremacist symbol, has been killed off by its creator. Pepe’s creator and illustrator Matt Furie drew the frog lying in open casket as part of ...