The Lost Corners of Early Furie Art Long before modern meme culture became polished and self-referential, Matt Furie’s llustrations carried something stranger beneath the surface. Tiny mushrooms hiding in forests. Psychedelic landscapes. Creatures wandering without purpose. A feeling that everything existed inside one endless sleepy dream. Shroomie comes from that atmosphere. Not from a single comic panel or official character sheet — but from the unnamed fungal presence that quietly lived alongside early Pepe-era art.