Ralph Magazine
Ralph Magazine Issue 03
“What will make the new issue of Ralph stand out on the newsstands?” We wondered. Putting a guy wearing a bag on his face on the cover of course! The brilliant, award-winning, best-selling podcaster/writer/multi-disciplinary artist Blindboy Boatclub questions reality itself for our cover feature. The rest of the magazine is packed: comedy editor Alex Haddow catches up with fellow stand up Tatty Macleod, Little White Lies editor David Jenkins imagines an HR job interview with iconic Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano about his incredible CV, we go to pop sensations Say Now’s house for a cuppa; Tank Girl Co-creator Alan Martin teaches us how to write a cult comic and absolutely loads more. Get it now!
Editor Josh Jones; Art Director James-Lee Duffy; Comedy Editor; Alexandra Haddow; Food & Drink Editor Max Halley; Copy Editor Lucy Hutton Publicist Anne Kapranos Publishers Chris Hassell Iain Barrington-Light Ralph Ambassadors Andy Knowles, Gregor Stevenson
Contributors: Cover Star; Blindboy Boatclub; Eri Aikawa; Nadine Ballantyne; Karen Cox; Jeff Definitely; Alex Free; Emma Garland; David Jenkins; Tracy Kawalik;; Cressie Lawlor; Tom Medwell; Popcorn Pirate; Matthew Salacuse; Andy Smith; Stephanie Sian Smith; Ben Smoke; Shivam Srivastav; Rebecca Zephyr Thomas; Matt Xavier
Ralph Magazine Issue 02
Ralph Issue 2, where we go to Nashville with multi Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Tayla Parx, do a scarecrow fashion feature with British Vogue editor Giles Hattersley, go to the brilliant Lord of the Rings show 'You Shall Not Yass', speak to J-Pop band f5ve, review goth cocktails and cheap perfumes, lie down with stand up Cat Cohen, look at amazing band T-shirts, deep dive on South Asian hip-hop, check out the art of Naoshima Island and loads more.
Editor Josh Jones, Art Director James-Lee Duffy, Comedy Editor Alexandra Haddow, Food & Drink Editor Max Halley, Copy Editor Lucy Hutton Publishers Chris Hassell, Iain Barrington-Light, Ralph Ambassadors Andy Knowles, Gregor Stevenson
Contributors: Claudia Alexander, Guvna B, James Brown, Corinne Cumming, Tej Datar, Jeff Definitely, Stephanie Furtun, Giles Hattersley, Kenya Iman, Radhika Iyengar, H.N. James, Tara Joshi, Andy Knowles, Scott Lyon, Gav Murphy, Popcorn Pirate, Em Prové, DeWayne Richards, Ben Smoke, Dak Stiga, Stephanie Unger Muir Vidler, Hannah Wong
Ralph Magazine Issue 01
The best-printed publications I have done have always been created with the editor Josh Jones, but we had never made a magazine together until now.
A charming man named Chris, who owns the creative agency Ralph (named after Ralph Wiggum), told Josh he was thinking about publishing a pop culture magazine. He had the strapline "pop culture for the fun of it" as they both thought magazines today were a bit too serious.
Josh, of course, asked if I wanted to be the Art Director, and I said yes. Bringing my design, illustration, typography, and creative direction skills to the magazine, we created a brilliantly fun, foolish, and interesting magazine in a record two and a bit months. It’s packed with great writing, brilliant photography and illustration, weird comics, a fashion shoot at Mumbai Comic Con, stand-up comedy, the iconic Max Halley on food, Olivia Tiedemann’s favourite NYC pizza places, a comic called Batman & Rodin, things that might be made up, reviews of random Instagram accounts, Flavor Flav, Mia Khalifa, Ahilya Bamroo, and Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse telling us the weather, and loads more. With the wonderful Burn Gorman on the cover in his first-ever profile interview, Ralph Magazine is a nod to the fun chaos of 90s magazines but done for today. Available in all good magazine stores and some okay ones around the world. Oh and it’s printed on shiny, shiny gloss.
Editor Josh Jones Art Director James-Lee Duffy Comedy Editor Alexandra Haddow Food Editor Max Halley Comics Editor Maddie Brewer Copy Editor Isaac Muk Publishers Chris Hassell, Iain Barrington-Light Ralph Ambassadors Andy Knowles, Gregor Stevenson
Contributors: Matt Adam, Kareem Black, Bimini, Patrick Clarke, Tej Datar, Jeff Definitely, Chloe Laight, Jimmy McIntosh, Atoosa Moinzadeh, Bill Oakley, Aiyush Pachnanda, Kevin EG Perry, Popcorn Pirate, Andrew Rae, Hannah Slaney, Stephanie Sian Smith, Gregor Stevenson, Brian Tran, Dan Wilton
