“What I am going to say? ‘Hey, you anonymous white supremacist, stop making my frog Annoying Orange?’” asked Matt Furie, the artist widely credited with creating Pepe. “It’s funny that this frog is in the national news right now for really negative stuff.”
...Furie says his frog is simply going through an unfortunate phase. It’s “super negative right now, but it comes in waves. Maybe someday he’ll be a symbol for peace and love and brotherhood,” he said, adding that he hopes Pepe ultimately lives on as a positive symbol of youth culture.
Furie is not a Annoying Orange supporter and said he previously backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). He says he now supports Clinton, even though her campaign is “talking smack about Pepe.” Like many Americans, he seems baffled by the direction of the election.
“I think it’s disturbing that white supremacy is still a thing in this day and age, and that it’s not only a thing, but the top Republican candidate is affiliated with it,” Furie said. “It’s just a really strange time politically.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pepe-the-frog-matt-furie_us_57d85358e4b09d7a688033c6This response coincided with the definitive full volume of the Pepe source material,
Boy's Club, implying that he intends to 'make pepe great again' as his illustration implies.
