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If Pepe the Frogs creator has anything to say about it, his creation will shake off the cloak of bigotry which has been thrown around its shoulders by members of the alt right.

Cartoonist Matt Furie told the Associated Press that he plans on reviving Pepe after killing him off last month, according to a report by ABC News.

To achieve this goal, he and his brother Jason have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise $10,000 for the publication of a Pepe comic book. In addition, Furie has hired attorney Kimberly Motley to explore legal options against alt right-ists who have used Pepes image to promote their cause without the creators permission.

According to Furie, once we get the money together, were going to do it [the comic book] from scratch even as he fights togain some entrepreneurial control over Pepefor the future.

In the comic in which Furie killed off Pepe, the titular frog was seen deceased in an open casket at a wake. It was an emotional end for a character devised by Furie in his 2005 comic book Boys Club, which initially had very littleto do with politics. Furie himself identifies as a progressive and was reported to be horrified at the use of Pepes image to promote racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and other hateful ideas.

In a press statement explaining their decision to label Pepe the Frog as a hate symbol, the Anti-Defamation League argued that Pepe the Frog did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations.

It added, But as the meme proliferated in online venues such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit, a subset of memes came into existence promoting anti-Jewish, bigoted and offensive ideas. And those have spread virally on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere.

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Pepe the Frog rises from grave to seek vengeance against alt-right - Salon