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 ...

The film traces the history and multiple interpretations of a cartoon character named “Pepe the Frog,” the heavy-lidded, endearing protagonist of Matt Furie’s 2005 comic zine Boy’s Club.

Indeed, most in the Rare Pepe community see the frog as the future of art and art commerce. One Pepe enthusiast said he hoped to create “the first eternal digital open museum.” ...

When Matt Furie created his cartoon Pepe the Frog, he never imagined the laid-back amphibian might one day be considered a hate symbol. But that's what the Anti-Defamation League says the comic ...