Jul 20th 2009 By: Laura Hudson
David Rees, who created the scathing post-9/11 clip art webcomic
"Get Your War On," recently brought our attention to a
Jamba Juice advertising campaign that totally, totally rips off the strip. I don't just mean it uses stock images in a similarly ironic fashion, I mean that it uses
exactly the same clip art in exactly the same way.
Compare and contrast the original strip...
...with the
new Jamba Juice ad here:
Rees has called for a boycott of Jamba Juice, so you can do your part by putting down the smoothie and instead of giving them money, give them the mockery that they so richly deserve.
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Monday 20 July
By Tyler Chin-Tanner
I don't get it. I thought the point of it was that it was clip art. Isn't that public domain? And how am I going to get through the day without my Mango-a-go-go?
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Monday 20 July
By Laura Hudson
Sure, the clip art is available to anyone just as it was available to Rees, but he took those stock images and made something original and distinctive with them. The problem isn't that Jamba Juice used clip art, but that it used those precise images in a way that borrows almost entirely from what he created with them.
I also love Mango-a-go-go. :(
Monday 20 July
By James
It seems like kind of baseless whining. If you're going to use clip art to create something, you can't really complain if someone else uses the same clip art to also create something.
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Tuesday 21 July
By derivativecomics.com
Rees infused stale, meaningless clip art with his outlook on political, social, and moral woes. Jamba Juice has divested the strips of such meaning, and transformed them into stale, meaningless clip art. In a way, it’s genius.
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Wednesday 22 July
By misterfricative
You want mockery? I got your mockery right here -- http://tinyurl.com/nv68g5
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Wednesday 22 July
By Justin Maudslien
I am outraged beyond words. David Rees may not draw the comic, but his unique and original style was stolen. At least give the boy credit. It is obvious Jamba Juice said lets try to cash in on his popularity and get better numbers in the 20-30 year old geek demographic. If there was any justice in this world David and I would dance in the ashes of this crappy corporate chain.
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Saturday 08 August
By jimmyjohnson
I've been enraged that "Get Your War On"s bland, predictable "satire" gets printed and written about over more interesting comics that cartoonists spend hours drawing by hand.
Never been to Jamba Juice before, but I'm starting today!
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Friday 06 November
By Erik Cyree
So, people are upset that Jamba Juice stole the art that David Reese is too lazy to draw? That's weird.
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