In 2005, artist Matt Furie published the first edition of Boy’s Club, a comic book starring four friends living in the hedonistic and aimless haze of their post-college, early-20s. There was Landwolf, ...
In 2001, Shrek was a massive box-office success, a breakthrough for computer-generated animation, and eventually, the Academy Awards’ first winner for Best Animated feature. In 2021, it is a grotesque ...
In 2005, illustrator Matt Furie released an online comic book called "Boy's Club" that featured four animated characters. One was a frog named Pepe, whom Furie has described as "a chill frog who ...
Matt Furie, a San Francisco-based cartoonist of reluctant notoriety, is a frog lover. He’s always drawn frogs: goofy frogs, peaceful frogs, frogs on bike rides, frogs having tea. “It’s just been kind ...
“I didn’t even know what a meme was,” confesses cartoonist Matt Furie in the documentary “Feels Good Man,” demonstrating just how ill-equipped he was to resist the dark forces that engulfed him and ...
Without context, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede looks like a fairly standard children’s book. Its cover features a smiling frog with its left arm around a friendly looking centipede, and its pages ...
Pepe the Frog was created in 2005 as an innocent-enough cartoon frog. But through no fault of his own, Matt Furie’s creation eventually mutated into a symbol for the alt-right around the time Donald ...
He may have become a far-right internet meme in the West, but Pepe the Frog's image is being rehabilitated in Hong Kong where democracy protesters have embraced him as an irreverent symbol of their ...