Paper Airplane magazine
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The grown-up mashup of the magazines you loved as a kid. No cynicism. No ads. No A.I. 👉 Subscribe now for 2026 at PaperAirplane.pub
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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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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
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!
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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This is exactly what I was hoping for. I hope you have the same experience.
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.
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.
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!
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.
First shipment goes out soon! Subscribe now to get this beauty in your mailbox. (The magazine, not the cat.) PaperAirplane.pub.
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.
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.
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.
Tag yourself. I'm "a new print magazine (!)"
Nancy Friedman@fritinancy.bsky.social · 6mo agoJanuary links! Credits: @mashedradish.bsky.social @marthabarnette.bsky.social @paperairplane.pub @stancarey.bsky.social @stronglang.bsky.social @grammargirl.bsky.social & more! fritinancy.substack.com/p/january-li...
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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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
Goal exceeded! Paper Airplane Vol. 1 raised $10,806.45 in support of refugees and immigrants. Phase 2 coming very soon.
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.
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.)
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.
Editorial meetings can get intense but later we snuggle.
“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.
We're so close—help us get over the finish line!
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)@refugees.org · 10mo agoSupport refugees. Get a magazine. Nick Norlen’s Paper Airplane is raising $10K for USCRI—and we’re just $2,500 away. Donate now and get the debut issue FREE: PaperAirplane.pub
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.
