Users redrew images of him as sad, smug, rageful, and sometimes violent: There has been school shooter Pepe, 9/11 Pepe, Nazi Pepe. After catching on with weightlifters on Myspace, Pepe became the unofficial face of the anonymous imageboard site 4chan, and then exploded on other social media. In the years after Furie created him for his lighthearted comic Boy’s Club, Pepe the Frog became a wildly popular internet meme. Most people who have seen images of the now-infamous Pepe the Frog probably wouldn’t describe him that way.
“It’s just been kind of a slow drip of frogs throughout my entire life,” he says at the start of Feels Good Man, a new documentary about him and the character who leapt out into a life of his own. He’s always drawn frogs: goofy frogs, peaceful frogs, frogs on bike rides, frogs having tea. Matt Furie, a San Francisco-based cartoonist of reluctant notoriety, is a frog lover.
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