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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 · 06/07/2026

Appreciate you devoting your 100th post to Paper Airplane, Rob! So glad you’re enjoying it!

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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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Vol. 1

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 · 20/03/2026

Kory volunteering to write for the first issue—and then proposing the absolute perfect topic—is one of the main things that made this magazine a reality. Forever grateful to have had the privilege of publishing this. I envy anyone who's about to read it for the first time.

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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

Best I can do is a photo of the cat in the magazine

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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

There's even this printable announcement as a way to present the gift subscription. It’s meant to be colored in, which, if you’re anything like me, is exactly the kind of touch you’re looking for.

A printable coloring page to be given as a way to announce a gift subscription to Paper Airplane magazine it. It says: "A gift for you: Enjoy a one-year subscription to Paper Airplane Magazine."

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

If you want to pair your homemade valentine with a gift that delivers joy at regular intervals, one that’s made in the same spirit (by likeminded humans) with an absolute reverence for your recipient’s impeccable taste, I humbly recommend a subscription to Paper Airplane magazine: PaperAirplane.pub.

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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 · 31/12/2025

Thanks, @grandrobert.bsky.social! 2026 Subscription Drive coming very soon!

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

Remember, no one is a failure who tries. A cup of kindness to all my fellow tryers. Hee Haw and Happy Holidays. –Nick Norlen

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

Because the truth is, we don’t know—not for certain—exactly what we’re gonna do tomorrow, or the next day, or the next year, or the year after that. But we do know we’re going to try.

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

And if that makes you cocky? Then very well. I’ll take some earnest swagger over the mirthless optimization of garlic-souled trolls who have cynicized themselves beyond the possibility of joy.

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

The point is that you possess the depth of feeling to continue trying to make the thing, audaciously wrought with your own thoughts, in the hope that someday it lands in the hands of someone who appreciates it.

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

The point of having a dream is the idealistic tinkering. The point is the trying—and this is important—even if your dream never has a life beyond the corner of your living room, or your sketchbook, or your drafts folder.

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

Potters look at any Bedford Falls and can see only Pottersville. But the point of climbing Mount Bedford isn’t to plant your flag at the top and turn it into a gated 55+ community for the types of Uncle Billies who actually have the cash.

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

Potter, the perfect icon for our age. An irredeemable Scrooge, relentlessly uncompassionate, yawning at sincerity. What the Potters of the world can’t fathom, what they no longer have the wetware to comprehend, is that the point of having a dream isn’t to see it auto-scaled to infinity.

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

We know how he feels because there are days when we look with weary eyes at our passion projects, in whatever corner life has backed them into, and the question autopopulates: “What am I even doing?” “You used to be so cocky,” Mr. Potter says to George at his lowest.

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

Already demoralized, he's then cornered by the sight of the sum total of his yearslong idealistic tinkerings—two obviously homemade architectural models whose scale contrasts pitifully with what he once so confidently said he’d build: skyscrapers a hundred stories high and bridges a mile long.

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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 · 03/12/2025

UPDATE: Huge thanks to everyone who donated on Giving Tuesday! The donation match has ended, but we’re now just ONE PERSON away from our goal of 250 readers for the debut issue—AND less than $1,000 away from our fundraising goal to support refugees and immigrants! LTTTO! (Let’s top this thing off!)

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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

I just need a little more time, boss!

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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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