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Matt Furie's quest to reclaim Pepe the Frog from neo-Nazis and the alt-right has found a new target: neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Furie and his team of pro-bono lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP have been sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices to the service providers who host The Daily Stormer, though[...]

Matt Furie, creator of the totally-not-racist stoner known as Pepe the Frog, has set his sights on a new target in his battle against the alt-right over the image of his amphibian creation: InfoWars Furie is apparently suing Alex Jones's conspiracy and supplement peddling show and website for copyright infringement, as first reported Tuesday by[...]

Matt Furie, creator of the non-racist stoner Pepe the Frog, has been fighting to regain control of his character from the alt-right white supremacists who have appropriated it as a hate symbol Furie recently sued Eric Hauser, who had written a children's book starring Pepe which Furie's lawyers said "espoused racist, Islamophobic and hate-filled themes,[...]

Matt Furie, creator of the fun-loving stoner frog Pepe in the comic Boy's Club, has been struggling to come to terms with his character's adoption as a symbol of white supremacy in the so-called "alt-right." And now, Furie has taken the fight for Pepe the Frog's soul to the battlefield of trademark litigation. Furie, with the[...]

Pepe the Frog was a comic strip character, one of many of the Boys Club small press comics created by Matt Furie. The character was noticed by the internet around 2008 and used as an innocuous internet meme character from then onward. But in 2015, the character's image was inexplicably appropriated as a symbol of the controversial alt-right movement and used[...]

Because Pepe The Frog was appropriated by the alt-right movement for meme after meme last year, creator Matt Furie killed him off But now he is trying to bring him back, with a Kickstarter and brother Jason Furie. Being one of Time Magazine's 25th most influential people on the internet might help After all, we're writing about[...]

As we've seen Pepe The Frog's transformation from popular indie comics character to meme to a sort of meta-emoji over the past few years, and then more recently be appropriated for far worse things, I'm sure many have wondered about the impact recent events have had on creator Matt Furie Can't have been easy to[...]