Boy’s Club

Matt Furie’s Boy’s Club (2016–present, Fantagraphics) is a single-issue comic that introduced the world to the surreal, deadpan antics of four anthropomorphic animal roommates—including the now-iconic frog, Pepe. Drawn in Furie’s signature loose, expressive style, the series captures the aimless, absurd humor of early-2000s internet culture, long before its characters took on a life of their own. Though brief, this one-shot stands as the original, unfiltered source of a bizarre and influential slice of modern cartooning.