A Donald Trump supporter holding a poster of Pepe the Frog, which has become a symbol of the “alt-right” movement, at a campaign event in Bedford, N.H., Sept. 29, 2016. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The ...

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 ...

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 creator of the meme “Pepe the Frog” is speaking out in an attempt to reclaim the cartoon, whose image has been co-opted by fringe Internet trolls to advance white supremacist and anti-Semitic ...

A little green frog has been officially classified as a hate symbol after gradually transforming into an icon of white supremacy. In case you’re not familiar, the frog – known as Pepe the Frog – is a ...

Matt Furie is a patient man. After many on the Internet co-opted his most famous cartoon creation more than a decade ago, he was long willing to live and let live. And when his same Pepe the Frog ...

A man wears a Pepe the Frog sweatshirt (photo credit: REUTERS) ByJTA MAY 9, 2017 15:55 Updated: MAY 9, 2017 15:59 Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image has been co-opted by ...

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 ...