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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.

Same vibe

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 (!)"

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

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.

Look who’s at the door

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.

Interview with Laid Off! laid0ff.substack.com/p/laid-off-a...

“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!

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.

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.

Guess I gotta brush up on my words now 😅

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

⭐ 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.

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

ASK ME ANYTHING!

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

*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.”

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.

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

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.

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

Duel Airbags #MildHorror

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.

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

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

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.

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”

Summertime is for getting lost on purpose.

Online life has the potential to be like Busytown by Richard Scarry, but now it just feels like busywork for the rich and scary.

JAWN PREORDERED

You get about one perfect nectarine per year. Savor it.

I hope you'll consider donating to Evie's Birthday Fundraiser this year, and/or help spread the word. givebutter.com/evie22

“Paper Airplane will transport you to those summer days—before smartphones, before productivity—where time well spent was time lost to, in, the wonder of a wandering pillbug.” Thanks to @mashedradish.bsky.social for the Paper Airplane appreciation! mashedradish.com/2025/07/13/p...

The exact opposite of doomscrolling

READ YRSELF CLEAN

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Be "deeply, beautifully inefficient." "Highlight the beauty of things you like." "Make a good, human thing."

At Paper Airplane, it's not a coincidence that we highlight the work of journalists, artists, and scientists. Vol. 1 features a 2-years-in-the-making photo from the research team of @maikbischoff.bsky.social, who was just published in the journal Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"In commercial after commercial, humans are oblivious, enfeebled, barely functioning idiots beset by more tasks, stimuli and demands on their time than anyone could reasonably handle." (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/m...

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