Author Topic: Matt Furie celebrated yesterday's Free Comic Book Day by killing off Pepe the Frog  (Read 1104 times)

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Had no idea at all where to post this one. So it's here.

Spare a thought for poor Matt Furie, a wonderful indie comics creator whose Boys' Club comics featured a lovable frog called Pepe that was adopted by the neofascist movement (the so-called "alt-right") as a symbol for racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny.

Furie tried to rehabilitate his creation, which is classed by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol, but did not succeed.

So yesterday, in a single page comic included in the Free Comic Book Day title World's Greatest Comics, Matt Furie killed off his creation.

More: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/07/feels-good-man.html

This PO's me a surprising amount.
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Something kind of poetic about the French ripping Pepe's legs off and eating them.

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Something kind of poetic about the French ripping Pepe's legs off and eating them.

And they really do taste like chicken.

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And they really do taste like chicken.

I went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner this year and had frog legs.

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I went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner this year and had frog legs.

You sure it was frog?    :pondering:

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It's amazing the pure garbage people get worked up over these days. Just complete nonsense. Both the Pepe meme and the detractors.

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I went to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner this year and had frog legs.

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