A positive rendition of Pepe the Frog by illustrator Travis Millard. (Travis Millard) "I thought it was just him trying to appeal to a younger voting demographic," Furie says.

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.

Furie created Pepe the Frog in the mid-2000s and intended for his creation to be a “‘peaceful frog-dude’ — a kind and blissful cartoon character, who lived alongside three animal roommates ...

Pepe the Frog started as a character from a comic series, "Boy's Club" by Matt Furie in 2005, according to Know Your Meme. While the somewhat sad-looking frog did not have racist or antisemitic ...

But before Pepe was any of those things, he was a "stoner, hippy frog" in Matt Furie's indie comic series Boy's Club. "It's been a long, strange trip for the little frog," Furie told CBC News.

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Cartoonist Matt Furie described Pepe the Frog as a “chill frog-dude” who debuted in a 2006 comic book and became a popular online subject for user-generated mutations. Matt Furie ...

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He went as far as drawing Pepe’s funeral in 2017 in an attempt to put the meme to bed. Fans responded by drawing the frog back to life as Jesus. Now, the frog is standing on new legs.