Matt Furie had intended his cartoon creation Pepe the Frog to be a "peaceful frog dude." Which made it all the more upsetting for him when Pepe began to show up on right-wing logos and designs.

Pepe the Frog is the creation of 38-year-old cartoonist Matt Furie, who declined to be interviewed for this story. The anthropomorphic frog first appeared 12 years ago in Furie's web comic Boy's Club.

Artist Matt Furie first introduced Pepe the Frog – who has enlarged, red lips and bulging black eyes – in 2003, and continued to draw the figure in subsequent comics. But the alt-right began co-opting ...

Someone drew a smug Pepe; someone else made an angry Pepe, a red-tinted image where the frog is shaking with rage. Each was encoded with its own meaning, particularly on 4chan, ...

Pepe the Frog is one of the most prolific images on the Internet. A new documentary follows the frog's creator, cartoonist Matt Furie, as he fights to regain control over his character.

In the background of the picture is Pepe the Frog, a popular internet meme that started as a comic in 2005 but was embraced by far-right groups when Trump was first running for president.

“Artist Matt Furie created the Pepe the Frog character in the early 2000s. Pepe is an anthropomorphic frog often depicted with large, rounded, red/brown lips, bulging eyes (often with multiple ...

Pepe the Frog is one of the most notorious and complicated memes on the internet. Most recently, the meme has been adopted by the protesters in Hong Kong as a symbol of resistance, which makes its ...

The company responded with a tweet of the cartoon character Pepe the Frog, adorned with the trademark red hairdo of the company’s namesake mascot. I love that it was in response to this pic ...

A legal fight involving the alt-right, Trump voters, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful law firms, and the website 4chan is brewing.

You’ve probably seen him by now—the thin, red lips. The big, expressive eyes. The deep green skin. Sometimes he looks innocent and sweet, like a friend crashing on your couch. Other times he looks ...