The frog first appeared in Matt Furie's Boy's Club cartoons in 2005. Known as the “sad frog,” Pepe was often depicted as a mellow character with the slogan “feels good, man,” among others.

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol.

FOR THE RECORD, Oct. 11, 2016: This article incorrectly says the Pepe the Frog character first appeared in Boy's Life. It should have said Boy's Club.

Pepe the Frog had previously been declared a hate symbol by the ADL. An attendee holds up a sign of Pepe the Frog during a campaign event with Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Sept. 29, 2016.

Pepe first appeared in 2005 in the online cartoon Boy's Club, drawn by Matt Furie, and the ADL said "the majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted." Pepe was ...

Furie created Pepe the Frog about a decade ago in his psychedelic comic “Boy’s Club,” which depicted the character as a chill, “feels good, man” amphibian — before Pepe was launched ...

Pepe the Frog, whose likeness became a troll meme, has croaked at the age of 12. His spirit may live on in bigoted corners of the internet, but creator Matt Furie confirmed the frog’s death S… ...

Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie, which took off in the MySpace era, becoming one of the most popular memes ...