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." ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

He even took steps towards rehabilitating Pepe’s image with a #SavePepe campaign meant to spread love, not hate. In the end, he was far too late in his quest to say his beloved frog, and now ...

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 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.

The creator of the “Pepe the Frog” character has laid his popular internet meme to rest.In a special strip for Free Comic Book Day, artist Matt Furie drew a one-page special edition of … ...

Matt Furie is a patient man. After many on the Internet co-opted his most famous cartoon creation more than a decade ago, he was long willing to live and let live. And when his same Pepe the Frog ...

When Matt Furie created the cartoon character Pepe the Frog in 2005 for his comic Boy’s Club, the lighthearted cartoonist never imagined his quirky creation would one day be appropriated by 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 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 ...