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Chinese Propaganda
Forgive our silence, but we (naively) felt that the best way to hinder Ricky Rouse Has a Gun's success was to pretend it didn't exist. We regret to inform you that our strategy has failed. The Chinese are too powerful. And our media is eating their lies for breakfast. Here's some more propaganda for you. We give up.
REVIEWS:
Huffington Post, Bianca Bosker
"Tittel and Aggs flip our cheeriest, most-beloved icons on their heads to create a story as thrilling as it is bizarre. In their world, an amusement park is a thing of gloom, friendly cartoon characters are out for blood and the copycat "Ricky Rouse" is a hero to root for. Their story of knockoffs behaving badly is a true original itself.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"I loved Ricky Rouse Has A Gun, a comic filled with deaths and yet full of life."
London Evening Standard
"Great fun."
Down the Tubes (John Freeman)
"In short, Ricky Rouse has a Gun is absolutely fantastic. Action, parody and great characters from Jorg Tittel, superb art from John Aggs… Well worth the price of admission." [SOURCE]
Publishers Weekly
"zany, ambitious... it’s hyper, original, and fun" [SOURCE]
Graphic Novel Reporter
"... what RICKY ROUSE really is, when you get right down to it, is Die Hard in Disneyland. And it's awesome... unique, and also incredibly fun to read. And don't let anyone tell you different." [SOURCE]
Topless Robot
"... this would be perfect fodder for an international blockbuster movie... I've always had the desire to see a good fight scene set on a roller coaster, and Ricky Rouse finally gave me one." [SOURCE]
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
"a gloriously well crafted, fast paced action adventure story, loaded with thrills, full of comedy." [SOURCE]
Graphic Policy 9/10
"... beyond that depth, the characters are entertaining, moments are hillarious, and action worthy of the big screen. Ricky Rouse to me is an ode to action movies, and the sequels they spawn, with some great commentary thrown in there. Though it’s presented on printed page, I had many of the scenes playing through my head as if they were directed by Bruckheimer or Bay. For every thing that gets you to think, there’s also more than enough explosions to allow you to turn off your brain too." [SOURCE]
A Place to Hang Your Cape
"... [a] violent and often hilarious take on popular culture and commercialism, Jorg Tittel’s Ricky Rouse Has A Gun offers an emotionally resonant tale beneath its parody-esque carnage." [SOURCE]
The Quietus
"On the surface, there's a good deal of fun here, with minor characters such as Ratman, Bumbo, and Rambi, as well as the Shanghai themepark bearing more than a passing resemblance to Disneyland. But at Ricky Rouse's heart is an examination of the differences between the Chinese and American way of thinking about copyright - how China ingests Western icons and regurgitates entities entirely Chinese, something foreigners may not understand as such creations still legally bear a strong resemblance to the original." [SOURCE]
Curiosity Of A Social Misfit
"The satirical look at the relationship of the US and China, really had me in tears of laughter... if you are looking for a fun and hilarious action packed book then this one is definitely the one for you." [SOURCE]
Nice to Geek You
"... a fun romp with a wicked streak of anarchic humour, Tittel’s snarky dialogue backed up by Aggs’s blood-soaked, rampaging visuals." [SOURCE]
Your Days Are Numbered
"as insanely disturbing as graphic novels go." [SOURCE]
Cent Magazine
"Bizarre and thrilling, yet cheery and beloved, Ricky Rouse Has A Gun takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey with endearing cartoon characters that you are sure to love." [SOURCE]
Phenomena Magazine
"You either 'get' graphic novels or you do not and for years I did not... until now! This first class piece of work and social commentary from Jörg Tittel (ably and intelligently illustrated by John Aggs throughout) actually made me laugh out loud because it is cleverly thought out, thought provoking and, yes, funny." [SOURCE]
William Rycroft (YouTube review)
"A riotous satire of Chinese-US relations."
#ricky rouse#ricky rouse has a gun#china#propaganda#reviews#press#media#alejandro jodorowsky#london evening standard#publishers weekly#huffington post#the quietus#youtube
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[UPDATED] Good news and bad.
The good news: the first reviews are in.
The bad: they love Ricky Rouse Has a Gun.
But first, take a look at Alejandro Jodorowsky's tweet:
Don't worry. This man has an unhealthy obsession with cats, speaks French, was burned by Hollywood and likes to conduct interviews in the nude, so who's going to listen to him anyway? His million Twitter followers must all be bots, surely.
Sadly, we've seen a worrying trend emerge. Leading blogs and newspapers love it, too.
John Freeman's influential DownTheTubes blog said this:
"Ricky Rouse has a Gun is absolutely fantastic. Action, parody and great characters from Jörg Tittel, superb art from John Aggs… Well worth the price of admission."
Forbidden Planet International's Richard Bruton called it:
"...the comics equivalent of a good Hollywood blockbuster... One big heap of fun..."
Respected film and comic book journalist and academic Danny Graydon writes:
"Filled with wry humour, Ricky Rouse Has a Gun is a tale that excites and provokes, gleefully challenging established notions of culture and giving us a new reluctant hero to watch kick ass and take names. This is a comics original – and don’t let anyone tell you different."
A Place to Hang Your Cape wrote:
"[A] violent and often hilarious take on popular culture and commercialism, [Ricky Rouse] offers an emotionally resonant tale beneath its parody-esque carnage. [...] Ricky Rouse Has A Gun is a brilliant read, one that entertains to deadly effect."
In its last ever issue, SFX and Total Film sister mag Comic Heroes gave Ricky Rouse author Jörg Tittel a two page interview AND promoted the book with several sample pages, too. And if that wasn't enough propaganda, they even called it a "bonkers yet utterly brilliant action comedy."
We wouldn't be surprised if it's our friends at Disney who shut them down. Nor would we blame them. Someone needs to put an end to all this Chinese plagiarism.
But a person who really should know better is The Huffington Post's Executive Tech Editor Bianca Bosker. Heck, she even wrote a book titled Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (the word "original" is ironic, we hope?) so she is well aware of China's evil ways.
No, it does seem that she, too, has gone over to the dark side:
"Tittel and Aggs flip our cheeriest, most-beloved icons on their heads to create a story as thrilling as it is bizarre. In their world, an amusement park is a thing of gloom, friendly cartoon characters are out for blood and the copycat Ricky Rouse is a hero to root for. Their story of knockoffs behaving badly is a true original itself."
So what are we going to do? The September paperback release is upon us and Ricky Rouse Has a Gun will not only be available in the UK, but in the United States of America, too.
Do NOT buy it from Amazon UK or Amazon US or your local bookshop or from anyone else for that matter.
And do tell publisher SelfMadeHero to stop the madness.
#ricky rouse has a gun#reviews#critical acclaim#huffington post#bianca bosker#alejandro jodorowsky#jodorowsky's dune#SelfMadeHero#ricky rouse#forbidden planet#comic heroes
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Don't buy this book.
SelfMadeHero are trying to make a quick buck by catering to 1.4 Billion Chinese people. Don't support them. Don't buy this book.
Ricky Rouse is a ripoff, plain and simple, a crime against all that's good and holy in the world.
Worse yet, this 180 page graphic novel is set in a knockoff theme park full of knockoff rides. Crazy Birds? Caribbean Pirates? A Communist Ronald Ruck?
Everything about this book is tasteless...
... rude, vulgar, plain wrong.
Don't buy this book from Amazon (US / UK) and others.
And certainly don't buy the Limited Edition Gold Hardcover directly from the publisher, SelfMadeHero.
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EXCLUSIVE: BitTorrent Bundle
We have been waiting for just the right moment to leak Ricky Rouse Has a Gun, SelfMadeHero's upcoming graphic novel and a heinous crime against intellectual property.
And that moment is now: The London Book Fair 2014.
While the publisher and its "author" Jörg Tittel have been participating in high-profile debates on the nature of copyright - clearly in a desperate attempt to save face - we have unleashed the Bundle.
You see, in the (unlikely) event you were thinking about buying the book, well, you no longer need to. Why, you ask? Ricky Rouse is a Chinese ripoff rodent. He should not be allowed to exist.
So we have decided to temporarily get out of our comfort zone and have teamed up with... BitTorrent. Yes, the people behind the naughty file sharing software who've triple-promised us they've gone legit.
Now you can go ahead and download the utterly tasteless Ricky Rouse music video featuring the hideous ripoff rodent engaging in unprotected, interspecies sex, alcohol abuse and appearing in a ton of stolen footage.
And if that video hasn't put you off... well, fine, you can read the first 33 pages of the graphic novel, too. Entirely for FREE.
Talk about beating thieves with their own weapon.
Get the BitTorrent Bundle here:
http://bundle.rickyleaks.org
#ricky rouse has a gun#rickyleaks#bittorrent#bittorrent bundle#london book fair#LBF14#music video#graphic novel#free#steal#bewarethefakes
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WTF?!
An anonymous source sent us this footage last night. What is Ricky Rouse doing with Vladimir Putin? Is he his bodyguard or an assassin?
We've now watched this GIF 3,789 times and are still none the wiser.
Here at RickyLeaks, we have of course been well aware of Ricky Rouse, the Chinese ripoff rodent, but since he's holding an AK47 here, maybe we can deduct a close affiliation to Russia?!
Is Putin behind this abomination, too? It would only make sense.
Or perhaps someone's just trying to confuse us.
#putin#vladimir putin#ak47#gold ak47#rickyrouse#rickyleaks#sochi#crimea#mouse#mickey mouse#rodent#ripoff#ripoff rodent#ricky rouse has a gun
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Taking the Mickey
The most plagiarised brand in the world without a doubt is Disney, purveyors of quality entertainment since the beginning of time. After all, it's Disney who invented timeless fairytales and literary classics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "Snow White," "Aladdin," "The Jungle Book" and "Mulan." Yes, Disney invented Chinese mythology, too, and own the copyright on it. Bet you didn't know that.
Sadly not everyone shares the respect for Disney, its cultural impact and its intellectual properties...
Your eyes didn't betray you. What you just experienced was a rip-off Disney theme park filled with rip-off Disney characters. Thankfully Disney's tireless legal team put a quick end to it. This is what that rip-off park looks like after they had their way with it:
Hellbent on revenge, those Chinese plagiarists have started getting cocky. Look at this cynical Star Wars / Donald Duck mashup for instance:
Or this movie called "Disney's Planes" which bears an eerie resemblance to the Disney/Pixar classic "Cars."
We have to admit. These people are good. So good, in fact, they've already churned out a sequel! Notice how they put the word "Disney" in the title, logo and all? As if that would fool anybody. Everyone knows "Cars" was a Pixar movie.
It's amazing what people get away with these days!
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Mission Manhattan
We took the long and perilous trip to freezing cold New York City last week in an effort to stop a major publisher from making a huge mistake.
A trustworthy source informed us that leading UK graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero would be presenting a certain graphic novel - a book we were hoping would never reach Western shores - to their US distributor.
The product in question is so offensive that we won't even honour it by naming its title, not now, not while there is still a chance it may never see the light of day. It is a story filled with Chinese knockoffs of the crudest kind, not to mention graphic, unprotected sex, alcohol consumption and underage swearing.*
And so we snuck into the prestigious Dream Downtown Hotel, situated in the shadows of Google's NYC headquarters, an area so lost in the internet bubble that they'll charge you $9 for a bottle of Corona.** If you ask nicely, they might even include a slice of lemon. Getting the bottle opened, however, requires a hefty tip. Who can afford to do business in a place like that? Clearly someone willing to do trade with the dark side.
But despite all the pomp, perhaps the hotel should have invested those overheads into tighter security because we got in just like that, no questions asked.
And just in time for SelfMadeHero's "presentation." Their pitch involved a music video which was pretty much a full frontal assault on all our Western values. This is the only shot we managed to take of it, sorry:
If you really must know what it was about, the video showed a lonely Chinese rip-off rodent who finds love and lust in London. It was truly disgusting, the closest thing to pornography our founder had ever seen.
Emotionally scarred and not wanting to endure any more of this, our founder and editor-in-chief stood up and shouted, "This is a Chinese knockoff! Don't buy it! Don't sell it! Beware the fakes!"
Our brave leader was immediately strong-armed out of the room, both by an Abrams employee and a tall fellow whom we'd later identify as Jörg Tittel:
So yes, they kicked us out. But not before we'd left our mark. Whatever the case may be, the battle isn't over yet. Should they still try to release the title, we will do everything in our power to hurt their release. See you at London Book Fair, SelfMadeHero!
And finally, as always and ever, remember to Beware the Fakes™.
(*) The book also contains a bunch of exploding heads, spilling of guts and flying limbs, but we're okay with that of course.
(**) Our founder does not have a drinking problem, thank you very much. It was a minute past noon, a perfectly acceptable time for a lunch time drink.
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Memories from Angoulême
Last week, the French town of Angoulême was host to Europe's largest comic book festival, with over 250,000 visitors from all over the world. The four-day event was teeming with Intellectual Property - naturally RickyLeaks had to be there.
The event also coincided with Chinese New Year. Given the country's notorious disregard for international copyright and trademark laws, we thought we'd spread the word in the form of deliciously cryptic Fortune Cookies:
One of our five #FIBD exclusive Fortune Cookies.#unwrapping #bewarethefakes https://t.co/p1Rgg3asiI
— RickyLeaks (@RickyLeaksOrg)
January 31, 2014
The cookies containing five inspirational messages were handed out by none other than RickyLeaks' Founder and Editor-in-Chief who was donning a provocative "Ricky Rouse" mask. You couldn't miss it, even in a crowd:
The International Comic Book Festival was a great success and a strong start for our campaign. We even made the French press:
Below, a few more impressions from a fantastic time. We will most definitely return to Angoulême in 2015 and hope to have inspired and changed a few minds already. It's only the beginning.
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Fakers, Beware!
These are dangerous times for intellectual property.
Whether it’s a book, a song, movie or video game, no-one is safe from their product appearing on the dark corners of the web or as a pathetic 3D printed knockoff in the back of your local noodle shop.
Perhaps you are reading this because you have fallen victims to IP theft? Did that abominable stolen creation still have your name on it? If so, you may be one of the luckier ones. Often they’ll try and sell a stolen product as their own.
Our capacity to think, to create - our identity in short - it’s all we’ve got. But in this age of digital convenience, they’ve become cheap and replaceable, a few more 1’s and 0’s to add to an endless torrent of remixed, reshuffled data.
This cannot go on.
Someone has to do something about it. Someone unafraid of naming and shaming the shameless. Someone unafraid of fighting those who take and fake precious IP which hardworking creatives and executives - the people of Hollywood in particular - have invested boundless creativity and billions of dollars into.
Why steal from those who have been bringing joy and happiness to our planet for over a century? Why bite the hand that feeds you? It’s time the hand bit back. The hand would need to grow teeth first, sure, but science is advancing fast.
Imagine a world without entertainment. You just can’t. The closest anyone ever came to dreaming up such a thing was in that brilliant sci-fi movie where Will Smith and his son fight boredom and, tragically, lose. That world could soon become a reality. Unless we fight.
It is in this spirit that RickyLeaks was formed. We hope you will join us in our struggle. If ever you see a fake - on a t-shirt, in a theme park, on the web - please get in touch. The secure Report-a-Fake form on the right will guide you through all the steps.
Still not convinced? Visit our About Page to hear our mission objectives and follow us on Twitter.
Only together can we Fight The Fakes™ and Keep It Real™.
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