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Matt Furie Killed Off Pepe The Frog On Free Comic Book Day
Matt Furie Killed Off Pepe The Frog On Free Comic Book Day
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In the
World s Greatest Cartoonists volume from Fantagraphics for Free Comic Book Day (promoting a number of comic book creators works for the publisher), cartoonist
Matt Furie created an original strip to promote
Boys Club, the collection of his surreal stoner comedy strips that featured, among others, the character Pepe Le Frog, out from Fantagraphics last June (and on Kindle right now, too.)
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 for mocking the left and liberal political figures and causes, promoting right-wing conspiracies, and making repeat racist and sexist commentaries in the run up to the 2016 Presidential Election. The u
Bob Eckstein: Creating Laughter in the Toughest of Times
Humorist and cartoonist Bob Eckstein talks about his goal of making people laugh, even in the toughest of times, through two new books.
Author:
Book title:
All’s Fair in Love & War: The Ultimate Cartoon Book by the World’s Greatest Cartoonists (Princeton Architectural Press, October 2020)
The Elements of Stress (Humorist Books, October 2020)
Genre/category: Humor
Elevator pitch for the book:
All’s Fair in Love & War: The best cartoons in the world on the topic of love, marriage, and divorce.
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The Elements of Stress: Invaluable handbook to handling stress in our time things could not get worse but they could get funnier. Written with Michael Shaw.