Ralph #4- Pop Culture For The Fun Of It

Ralph #4- Pop Culture For The Fun Of It

Here’s what’s in this one (deep breath)… we’ve got the incredible comedian/actor/podcaster Tim Heidecker and actor/producer/model Marta Pozzan on the cover. Stars of new indie film Fior Di Latte, they talk us through how the film has affected them as artists and why we should stop waiting for permission to do things and just make the stuff you want (exactly what we do at Ralph). Elsewhere in the magazine, hip-hop icon Chuck D gives us a guided tour of his favourite paintings, we spent the night at the infamous Muscle Girls bar in Tokyo, caught up with Ahilya Bamroo and Anasuya Sangupta – two Indian actors with unusual routes to the silver screen, went to Russell T Davies’ favourite Doctor Who-themed cabaret, and got silly with top comedian and filmmaker Jamali Maddix. We also review time itself, wonder what disco actually is in 2025, and absolutely loads more.

About Ralph:

A brand new pop culture focused independent title. Looking on the brighter side of life while harnessing the chaotic freedom of 90s magazine design and content, Ralph brings together a host of fantastic writers, photographers and illustrators from around the world. Issue 1 features cult actor Burn Gorman on the cover in his first ever in-depth profile, while The Simpsons writer and showrunner Bill Oakley tells us what fast food menu items the characters from the iconic show would be. It also has the internet’s favourite chef Olivia Tiedemann, a deep dive on how Japanese music has influenced The West for decades from The Quietus’ Deputy Editor Paddy Clarke, as well as Flavor Flav, Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse, Mia Khalifa, the coolest night out in Brooklyn, an investigation of the little-known LA Takeover subculture, a fashion shoot at Mumbai Comic Con and loads, loads more. Great journalism alongside hilarious illustrations, absurdist photo features, and plain oddities, Ralph is celebrating pop culture… for the fun of it. Edited by Josh Jones (Huck, Sandwich, MARVIN, Pavement Licker) Art Directed by James-Lee Duffy (Pavement Licker)