Pepe the Frog dates back to 2006, when it appeared in a Matt Furie comic called “ Boy’s Club.” Several years later, due to the Cambrian-like explosion of social media, the character quickly ...

Matt Furie, creator of Pepe the Frog, is working on a new book called Cortex Vortex, and Moaner is shaping up to be the star. His editor Beuys is foreshadowing the main role of Moaner in the book as ...

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 ...

A cartoon frog became popular, then a pariah. Now the Anti-Defamation League has identified it as a hate symbol. We take a short look at the amphibious, ambiguous meme.

FOR THE RECORD, Oct. 11, 2016: This article incorrectly says the Pepe the Frog character first appeared in Boy's Life. It should have said Boy's Club.

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.