If you tried to explain the concept of Pepe the Frog to someone who didn’t spend much time online, you’d probably sound insane. “So, there was this innocuous cartoon frog who was part of a comic called Boys Club, and he was co-opted by alienated people vying for attention, which then changed the frog into a symbol of white supremacists who want to be feared but use ironic detachment as a shield.” Crazy as it sounds, that’s what happened with Matt Furie’s creation, and Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini’s documentary Feels Good Man chronicles …

Sometimes, as an artist, you lose control over your own creation, and that appears to be what happened to underground cartoonist Matt Furie, whose saw his beloved comic creation Pepe the Frog co-opted by white supremacists and used online as a grotesque political pawn. As outlined in the trailer for the colorful documentary Feels Good Man, it was November 2016, and a nasty election cycle had exposed a seismic cultural rift -- one that was even more surreal for Furie given the way Pepe was being employed on social media. Furie conceived of Pepe the Frog more than a decade …