The image of the online cartoon character was co-opted by anti-Semites and white nationalists associated with the "alt-right." (JTA) — Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image was ...

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A Pepe cartoon ...

The cartoonist who created Pepe The Frog has killed off the character in a comic strip, following months of trying to rehabilitate the frog after it was co-opted by the alt-right. Artist Matt Furie ...

WASHINGTON — The creator of Pepe the Frog is getting more aggressive in his legal campaign against websites, books and phone apps that he says use the fun-loving cartoon figure to espouse hate.

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 ...

Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog that became a white supremacist symbol, has been killed off by its creator. (See the final strip at the bottom of this post.) Pepe’s creator and illustrator Matt Furie ...

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 to ...

Pepe the Frog, a simple cartoon character born 13 years ago, has appeared in countless guises over the years. Feel-good Pepe, sad Pepe, sly Pepe, befuddled Pepe, Pepe spouting all sorts of witticisms ...

The creator of Pepe The Frog is suing InfoWars, the conspiracy theory website headed by Alex Jones, for selling merchandise featuring his amphibious character. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in Los ...