About Us:

Ripple Junction began in 1992 when Bartholomew J. Ripplestein, the son of a sharecropper, sold a trunk loaded with bootlegged ‘Full House’ T-shirts out of the back of his Oldsmobile. When his supply ran dry, the outraged population of Cincinnati launched into a full scale ‘Olsen Twins riot’ that lasted five days before police finally got the streets back under control.

Clearly Ripplestein had hit upon a magic formula – that elusive combination of ‘what’s big’ and ‘what’s cool’ that so many fail miserably to achieve. As his next design, a close-up of Stephanie Tanner with the words “How Rude” emblazoned across her forehead, broke out into mainstream clothing stores, the poor former son of a pirate hooker branched out into legitimate merchandising, and Ripple Junction was born.

That’s the dark side of our beginnings… And it’s also a complete lie. Seriously, we’re not even remotely related to pirate hookers.

In all honesty, we’re just a bunch of guys who make great licensed apparel that people seem to love buying and wearing, and that has allowed us to build a strong line of products that have made a lot of retailers very wealthy... and some moderately wealthy… and others not so wealthy (seriously, who buys three shipping containers of Battlefield Earth gear? Are you people nuts?).

Our current catalogue features merchandise from Seinfeld, TMNT, Chuck Norris, Stargate, Dr Who, Naruto, Fruits Basket, Bleach, The Princess Bride, Crybaby, Saved By The Bell, Family Guy, The Big Lebowski, Edward Scissorhands, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, Resident Evil, and many more.