Pepe the frog, the once-innocent cartoon that was appropriated as a mascot of the alt-right, is at the center of a new legal battle. CNN values your feedback 1.

Pepe is headed to court. Rather, his creator, Matt Furie, is. Furie, who debuted Pepe the Frog in 2005 in his comic “Boy’s Club,” has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the far ...

Denizens of the darker corners of the Internet turned an innocent frog comic into a hate symbol of the "deplorable" alt-right. "Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by ...

Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog’s latest incarnation as a symbol of white hate groups has landed him on the ADL’s list of hate symbols.

Pepe’s original creator, Matt Furie, recently killed his infamous frog, by drawing a strip of him lying dead in a casket. Pepe may be dead inside the world of Furie’s comic strip, but online ...

His creator killed the frog in a comic strip, after the character spent much of 2016 tied to the alt-right. Pepe's sad tale is a modern parable of how awful the Internet can be.

Pepe the Frog is one of the most popular memes ever. It began in a non-political comic about four friends, but in 2016 extremists made it a hate icon.

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.

Pepe, the involuntarily appropriated alt-right cartoon frog, was laid to rest this weekend. His death was both a filicide and a mercy killing. His creator Matt Furie, having seen the rudderless ...