Matt Furie

[3] Following his graduation, Furie moved to San Francisco[4] where he worked in the toy department of the store Community Thrift.

He received a Goldie award for best visual artist from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

[9][10] His comic book Boy's Club #1 was published by Tim Goodyear's Teenage Dinosaur in 2006.

Furie licensed Pepe the Frog for use in playing cards, a clothing line, indie video games, and a plush toy.

[3] For the April 2017 issue of Mad magazine, Furie created a version of Alfred E. Neuman as Pepe the Frog.

"[8] He led a #SavePepe hashtag campaign and depicted Pepe having nightmares about his transformation into a symbol of hate in one of his comics.

[15][14][16] To counter the use of Pepe the Frog as a hate symbol, Furie partnered with the law firm WilmerHale and lawyer Louis W. Tompros.

[8][15] In August 2017, Hauser was forced to stop selling the book and donate proceeds to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

[8] Furie announced his intentions to donate the proceeds to the amphibian conservation organization Save the Frogs.

[18] Furie also filed lawsuits preventing the sale of Pepe-related merchandise by the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer and the subreddit r/The_Donald,[8] and pursued legal remedies against prominent alt-right figures who were using Pepe images, including Richard B. Spencer, Baked Alaska, and Mike Cernovich.