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In the World's Greatest Cartoonists volume from Fantagraphics for Free Comic Book Day promoting a number of comic book creators' works for the publisher , cartoonist Matt Furie created an original strip to promote Boys Club, the collection of his surreal stoner comedy strips that featured, among others, the character Pepe Le Frog, out from Fantagraphics last June and on Kindle right now, too. The character was noticed by the internet around and used as an innocuous internet meme character from then onward. But in , the character's image was inexplicably appropriated as a symbol of the controversial alt-right movement and used for mocking the left and liberal political figures and causes, promoting right-wing conspiracies, and making repeat racist and sexist commentaries in the run up to the Presidential Election. The use of Pepe was labelled a hate symbol. After an attempt to Save Pepe from such appropriation, it seems that Furie has given up trying.
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Comics The Anti-Defamation League has officially designated the cartoon character Pepe the Frog as a hate symbol, alongside the swastika and the echo symbol. Cartoonist Matt Furie created Pepe for his comic strip "Boys Club," which featured a quartet of anthropomorphized twentysomething animals. Memes featuring the cartoon frog became popular on internet message boards such as 4chan and Reddit and then spread to larger social media platforms. However, a self-described white supremacist told The Daily Beast that 4chan users deliberately conflated the frog with Nazi symbols in order to "reclaim Pepe from normies.
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