When Blonde released on August 20, 2016, Frank Ocean also made his first foray into the magazine world with Boys Don’t Cry—a glossy, 360-page companion piece featuring contributions from the likes of Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, The Creator. On the day of release, Ocean posted a flyer on his website & Tumblr listing the locations of pop-up shops in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and London where Boys Don’t Cry was available free of purchase. The magazine included a physical copy of Blonde, a CD-R (with MP3 files) nested within its center pages. Throughout, Boys Don’t Cry is littered with typical Frank Ocean signifiers including philosophical meanderings (“How far away is a light-year?”) and photos of cars—his obsession with them has been prominent throughout his whole career. Further visual contributions come from Dutch art photographer Viviane Sassen, illustrator Daniel David Freeman, and the legendary Wolfgang Tillmans, who also worked on the cover for Blonde. As well as pictures, the magazine also includes poetry from the likes of Tyler, The Creator & Kanye West, and of course, some of Ocean’s own words. In February 2019, Ocean reissued Boys Don’t Cry as a large format art magazine through his company blonded, made available for purchase on blonded.co.