Buffalo Zine arrives in various incarnations that have included a special holiday 4-in-1 quadruple issue, a newsprint tabloid, a pair of conventional glossies banded together, a 352 page hardback and a mid-market home and interiors lifestyle mag. The magazine's photography-based fourteenth issue was (in our opinion) one of the stand-out publications about living with the 2020 pandemic.
Buffalo Zine always comes packed with intelligently commissioned contributions from a diverse roster of artists, but supercool or minimalist it is not. This hardcore diet of fashion, culture and sly humour is cleverly dressed up as something else altogether, offering a reading experience very different to the mainstream.
Here's the publisher's description for Issue 19, 'Mother':
In this issue of Buffalo Zine we explore the definition of motherhood – unconditional love, primal instinct, joy, worry, selflessness, community, learning, growth and much more – revealing unknown stories about anonymous mothers. Maternal presence and absence, alternative mother figures and chosen families. Mothers as our personal heroes or antagonists. Moms always know better, right? But not always. We also uncover the struggles and hardships in everybody’s relationship with their mothers. This issue revolves around the mother as a cardinal and central figure in our vital experience.