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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 30/07/2026

Look, you and I both know you’re gonna pack more reading material than you need, so you might as well indulge in a little magazine browsing while you’re at it, and have I got the perfect periodical for your plane-ride, pool-side, porch-sit, road-trip, and beach-read needs. Only at PaperAirplane.pub

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 21/07/2026

Big News. For the first time, I’m offering the chance to purchase single issues—in both digital and print (while they last!). I've also added a new, lower-cost, print-only subscription, as well as deep discounts on digital subscriptions. Check it all out at PaperAirplane.pub.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 23/06/2026

I dare you to make something less scalable! Paper Airplane Vol. 3 features the debut of Zine Zone, a page with a little pocket hand-stuffed with two hand-folded zines by guest zinester Shay Mirk—including a zine about how to make your own one-page zine! Subscribe at PaperAirplane.pub.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 18/06/2026

Every Paper Airplane cover begins with an exchange of ideas with cover artist @kaitlinbrito.bsky.social, who then takes all the nebulous vibe notes and transforms them into something exquisite. Vol. 3 is available now in print or digital at PaperAirplane.pub, just in time for summer reading.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 28/05/2026

The Comics Journal is featuring full comics excerpts from Paper Airplane, including the twice-Eisner-nominated @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social, New Yorker cartoonist Navied Mahdavian, and graphic novelist @mariswicks.bsky.social, illustrator of the just-released book Puffins! www.tcj.com/excerpt-pape...

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Excerpt: Paper Airplane - The Comics Journal

Today on TCJ we are pleased as punch to bring you an excerpt from Paper Airplane, a new magazine of comics, long-form writing, games, puzzles, and other sorts of things you like. Paper Airplane Vol. 1...

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 31/03/2026

Reading a book? Put a bookmark in it. The first @korystamper.bsky.social book SINCE 2017 is HERE. It’s about colors and it's by KORY STAMPER, a fact I thought I already sufficiently emphasized. It’s troubling that you’re still reading this post. I left to get back to reading in the middle of this se

The cover of Kory Stamper’s book “True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color — From Azure to Zinc Pink”

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

HELL YES: "The Shape of Color," an article (WITH CRAFT PROJECT) I wrote for @paperairplane.pub's inaugural issue, has been chosen for this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology! Many thanks to guest editor @xkcd.com, @jaimealyse.bsky.social, and @marinerbooks.bsky.social!

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Paper Airplane Vol. 1 was the magazine's special debut issue, an all-volunteer collaboration by writers, artists, photographers, and puzzlemakers to raise money for USCRI (Refugees.org). The donation-...

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 18/03/2026

This is exactly what I was hoping for. I hope you have the same experience.

A flyer with the following text:

Actual, unsolicited reader feedback for Paper Airplane.

This is the most delightful thing I've received in ages. ALL JOY.

– Bree G.

The best feeling thumbing through the pages (lovely paper quality!) and chuckling and smiling, anticipating when I can sit down with it for a long while ::happy sigh::

– Dana G.

Sometimes, I get to the end of the night, and I finally finished work, and bedtimes, and folding laundry, and prepping tomorrow's snack... it's so much more satisfying to read something just for me than to get lost in a black hole of Instagram algorithm. Not to mention that this is insanely high quality and well done and thought provoking, and the kind of thoughts I just don't get anywhere else.

– George S.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 17/03/2026

One of my goals with Paper Airplane is to celebrate small moments and sense memories—like @beccschampagne.bsky.social beautifully capturing what it's like sitting inside a snow-covered car as a kid. It's just one of the heartfelt, life-affirming comics in Vol. 2, available now at PaperAirplane.pub.

A detail from a comic showing a girl sitting inside of a snow-covered car.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 12/03/2026

I’m realizing now that the problem with a library maze is that you might not want to find your way out. Get lost in this exquisitely elaborate maze by Guinness Record-holding mazemaker @boggessart.bsky.social in the current issue of Paper Airplane magazine.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 11/03/2026

You’ll smell colors when you read this. See the full spread of the synesthesia infographic by @hudrewthis.bsky.social in the latest issue of Paper Airplane magazine, out now!

A portion of an infographic about synesthesia showing a face and several sensory inputs.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 05/03/2026

623 copies is actually a solid run for the Sheboygan market in the early 70s. What I’m saying is that I’m out here trying to sell 250 subscriptions to my indie magazine and you better believe I’m gonna tell some stranger about it when I offer to drive them home from the airport 20 years from now.

An image of Gus Polinski, "the Polka King of the Midwest," from the movie Home Alone.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 26/02/2026

First shipment goes out soon! Subscribe now to get this beauty in your mailbox. (The magazine, not the cat.) PaperAirplane.pub.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 17/02/2026

I wanted to make a grown-up version of the magazines I loved as a kid—like Highlights, but for adults. Then I found a bunch of likeminded humans who actually made it happen. Everlasting thanks to all the writers and artists who've contributed to Paper Airplane Vol. 2 and beyond.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 13/02/2026

I used to be a snob about Valentine’s Day. The Hallmarkization and canned messages of affection. Then I realized I was looking at it all wrong. A holiday devoted to showing appreciation to your beloveds with weird, extremely personal (and pun-based!) handmade papercrafts? That’s a holiday for me.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 04/02/2026

If you wanna be surprised, cover your eyes, because it’s the Paper Airplane Vol. 2 cover reveal! Another stunner by Kaitlin Brito. Wait till you see what’s inside. Get the mag in digital or print! Subscribe at PaperAirplane.pub.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 29/01/2026

Tag yourself. I'm "a new print magazine (!)"

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Pocket friends, things feel really bleak and hard right now, but we all need some joy to keep us going. Here is some joy: Paper Airplane magazine, aka Highlights for adults, is launching for-reals! paperairplane.pub#subscribe

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Subscribe now for 2026! Available in digital and print.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 15/01/2026

The first-ever Paper Airplane Subscription Drive starts NOW! My goal is 250 subscribers. I sincerely hope you’ll be one of them. paperairplane.pub#subscribe

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 14/01/2026

Goal exceeded! Paper Airplane Vol. 1 raised $10,806.45 in support of refugees and immigrants. Phase 2 coming very soon.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 18/12/2025

Without a single word of dialogue or narration, we know exactly how he feels. George Bailey is on the brink, and then he’s confronted by the naked display of his unrealized dreams, pushed by necessity into the corner of his living room, where they sit mocking him.

A still image from the film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” showing the character George Bailey looking angrily at the architectural models that remind him of his unfulfilled dreams.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 05/12/2025

Your weekend will feel like this if you spend it with the right reading material. (Detail of “Dewdrop” comic by @mariswicks.bsky.social, available now in Paper Airplane vol. 1.)

A detail of a comic showing a character riding a tardigrade with obvious delight.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 02/12/2025

Today only, donations to @refugees.org will be matched. When you donate at PaperAirplane.pub, you get the debut issue of Paper Airplane, putting us one step closer to achieving our dual goal of reaching 250 readers and raising $10,000 for refugees, and putting you in rare quadruple-win territory.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 07/11/2025

Editorial meetings can get intense but later we snuggle.

A photo of an editor at his desk turning to say something to his cat, who appears to be insisting on a particular point by putting his paw on a legal pad. Also, his tail is curled in a very cute way.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 10/10/2025

“The exact opposite of doomscrolling.” This is how I like to describe the magazine, but I’m curious—what parts of your life feel like that to you? For me, most of them have to do with creativity and simple pleasures.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 30/09/2025

We're so close—help us get over the finish line!

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 30/09/2025

I just nominated Paper Airplane’s lead article, “The Shape of Color” by @korystamper.bsky.social, for next year’s Best American Science & Nature Writing! Here’s a preview.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 25/09/2025

Microfiction? Too long. Six-word short stories? Hold our baby shoes. With the right context, you can conjure an entire saga with just a few words. It’s called Venmo Nanofiction, and it’s just one of the madcap amusements awaiting you in the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine.

A page from Paper Airplane magazine with the following text:

Some of your friends have their Venmo feeds set to public. Every occasion to repay them for brunch is also an opportunity to generously increase their mystique among their peers. With just a few carefully chosen words, you can pack maximum narrative intrigue into every transaction note. Use these samples to start crafting your own entries in the genre I like to call Venmo Nanofiction. By Dave Shay

salmon cannon adapters
Bisquick for the bankruptcy tailgate
9V batteries and Sprite (cadaver prank)
gondola racing certification
Municipal hexagon audit
Rural Mailbox Magazine, 48-month subscription
borscht allergy alibi
legal fees for Tailgate-gate
mannequin removal
seawater

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 09/09/2025

Guess I gotta brush up on my words now 😅

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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

What it comes down to is: Should beautiful, interesting, entertaining things exist in the world, and should we spend our time making them?

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 05/09/2025

⭐ a Guinness World Record-holding mazemaker ⭐ an Amazon Book of the Year recipient ⭐ a Hugo and Locus Award finalist ⭐ an Eisner-nominated graphic novelist ⭐ multiple international award-winning photographers ⭐ a self-proclaimed “science goober” Dream team lineup for Paper Airplane vol. 1.

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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com · 03/09/2025

We desperately need more media that's "the opposite of doomscrolling." Love it! #ACESChat

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 28/08/2025

Spoiler: I made a magazine. Come ask me questions about it!

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 22/08/2025

*Smuggling smoked provolone into a No Smoked Provolone Zone*   “HEY, you there, you got smoked provolone in that bag?” [Nervously] “Ha ha, in THIS bag? Nope, no way, no smoked provolone in here, nosiree.”

A bag of cheese labeled "NOT SMOKED PROVOLONE"

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 22/08/2025

Wordplayers, hear me out: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but instead of connecting actors, you connect words. From the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine: I attempt to link “Kevin” to “bacon” in just six steps.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 20/08/2025

Flawless recipe for summer. Just substitute "school book" with "phone." #LMM>LLM

A page from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery with the following text:
When Anne got home that night she stacked all her text-books away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box.
“I’m not even going to look at a schoolbook in vacation,” she told Marilla. “I’ve studied as hard all the term as I possibly could and I’ve pored over that geometry until I know every proposition in the first book off by heart, even when the letters are changed. I just feel tired of everything sensible and I’m going to let my imagination run riot for the summer. Oh, you needn’t be alarmed, Marilla. I’ll only let it run riot within reasonable limits. But I want to have a real good jolly time this summer, for maybe it’s the last summer I’ll be a little girl. Mrs. Lynde says that if I keep stretching out next year as I’ve done this I’ll have to put on longer skirts. She says I’m all running to legs and eyes. And when I put on longer skirts I shall feel that I have to live up to them and be very dignified. It won’t even do to believe in fairies then, I’m afraid; so I’m going to believe in them with all my whole heart this summer.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 13/08/2025

Almost every afternoon, my cat Rolo nudges my legs under my desk to signal that it’s time for me to pick him up and hold him while he purrs loudly and does “air muffins” and I just sit there without trying to think or do anything for several minutes. This is the best creative advice I can offer.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 11/08/2025

Wordsmiths: Enjoy this word puzzle—by acclaimed author Alec Nevala-Lee!—from the debut issue of Paper Airplane magazine.

A word puzzle page titled “Period Pieces.” The instructions say to excavate and assemble buried letters (in order) from the name of each geological period to answer the clues.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 30/07/2025

What’s the best part of making something? The creative collaboration? The tinkering? Releasing it into the world? Seeing it be enjoyed by people you’ve admired for years? By people you’ve never met? Yes. Make the thing. Release it into the world. See what happens.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 29/07/2025

Mulder, there's got to be a plausible explanation for why I'm in this 1930s anatomy pop-up book.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 29/07/2025

SUCCESS! "Paper Airplane makes me want to create art, a puzzle, a story or tell someone a cool fact just because." 🤩

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 28/07/2025

Can you ESCAPE THIS PAGE using only the clues hidden in the map? Hint: You’ll probably need some hints. Get hints (and the full-page map) in the debut issue of Paper Airplane, only available at PaperAirplane.pub. Puzzle by @pzlr.org. Map art by @laurbarian.bsky.social.

An illustrated fantasy map with a key and labels of various features and landmarks.

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 23/07/2025

A great reminder to ignore “rules” when writing is that one of the most distinctive and impactful lyrical intros in rock history rhymes “masses” with “masses”

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Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub · 21/07/2025

Summertime is for getting lost on purpose.

A portion of an elaborate maze with many details, including bodies of water filled with sharks, ships, and sea monsters.

A portion of an elaborate maze showing a waterfall, a ship, and a sea monster.

A portion of an elaborate maze showing many details, including a whale, staircases, and the finish line.

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