Matt Furie

Matt Furie is an American comics artist and illustrator He is known for creating Pepe the Frog a character from his Boys Club series that debuted in 2005 The anthropomorphic character became a popular Internet meme in the late 2000s and early 2010s After the meme was coopted by the altright in 2015 and designated a hate symbol by the AntiDefamation League in 2016 Furie campaigned to reclaim the character pursuing copyright infringement cases against its use in haterelated contexts