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PORTLAND, Ore. 07/17/2025 — The bestselling, five-time Eisner Award winning series Paper Girls by the New York Times bestselling writer of Saga and legendary Catwoman: Lonely City artist Cliff Chiang will get a new look with the release of “Backpack Editions.” These eye-popping, compact editions will feature new cover artwork by Chiang and will measure 6×9 inches—the perfect trim-size to stow away in your backpack and pedal out of town with.
“I remain so proud of what my friends and I did with this series,” said Vaughan. “And these gorgeous ‘Backpack’ editions (check out that rad new cover!) are a great way to introduce this emotional young adult adventure to your loved ones, or to rediscover new details from our twisty time-travel tale for yourself.”
Vaughan will appear at San Diego Comic-Con next week on Saturday, July 26 from 10 – 11 a.m. for a Spotlight panel in Room 28DE where he will share details about his new original graphic novel with Niko Henrichon, Spectators, revelations concerning his ongoing series with Fiona Staples, Saga, and more. He will also be signing at the Image booth #1915.
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls—Erin, KJ, Mac, and Tiffany—uncover the most important story of all time. Stand By Me meets Lost in this beloved tale filled-to-the-brim with nostalgia, first jobs, time travel, and the last days of childhood. The series was adapted for television by Amazon Prime and starred Ali Wong.
Paper Girls Backpack Edition Volume One (ISBN: 9781534332362) will collect issues #1-10 and be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, October 29 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, November 11.
Paper Girls Backpack Edition Volume Two (ISBN: 9781534332782) will hit shelves in 2026.
The following Paper Girls print formats are also available at local comic book shops independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones:
- Paper Girls Deluxe Edition, Book One hardcover – ISBN: 9781534303348
- Paper Girls Deluxe Edition, Book Two hardcover – ISBN: 9781534310612
- Paper Girls Deluxe Edition, Book Three hardcover – ISBN: 9781534316485
- Paper Girls: The Complete Story Compendium paperback – ISBN: 9781534319998
- Paper Girls, Vol. 1 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781632156747
- Paper Girls, Vol. 2 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781632158956
- Paper Girls, Vol. 3 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781534302235
- Paper Girls, Vol. 4 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781534305106
- Paper Girls, Vol. 5 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781534308671
- Paper Girls, Vol. 6 trade paperback – ISBN: 9781534313248
Paper Girls is available across many digital platforms as well, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Omnibus.
Select praise for Paper Girls:
“The book remains gorgeous throughout every issue, every volume. Chiang and Wilson create big moments of weirdness—invisible mecha, unraveling time machines, kaiju tardigrades, card-catalog golems—that strike exactly the right balance between recognizable and utterly inexplicable to create a sense of the uncanny in both the girls and the reader. But they really shine in the quiet emotional moments of contemplation and realization… It’s glorious and moving, and also awkward and funny.” —Tor.com
“Paper Girls’ vivid color palette and Chiang’s unique drawing style beautifully complement Vaughan’s creative time-bending storyline.” —KORE Magazine
“Amazing” —99.9 KISW Radio
“A brilliant series.” —The Plain Dealer
“Its tone is harder, flintier, funnier, more pragmatic, and far less concerned with idealizing the ‘lost innocence’ of childhood [than Stranger Things and Super 8].” —NPR
“Paper Girls is a reminder of how fresh and accessible even the most familiar stories and tropes can feel when people who have been consigned to the sidelines of popular entertainment take center stage.” —SLATE
“A total blast, a mass-cultural mash-it-up that evokes everything from B-movie creature-feature thrills to vintage YA angst to the pop-plundering album covers of Hipgnosis. I’ve re-read the series three times now—sometimes to get re-unstuck in Vaughan’s time-bending story; sometimes to study Cliff Chiang’s vibrant, spacious illustrations; sometimes to take in Matt Wilson’s neon, period-perfect coloring…Chances are you’ll get sucked into it, too—especially if Stranger Things…has whet your appetite for more Reagan-era intrigue.” —WIRED
“The story opens with an earnest, Spielberg-esque vibe that sends you soaring before abruptly plunging you down into the creepy and bizarre, ultimately leaving you with the most WTF cliffhanger…of the year.” —Vox.com
“You all should be reading Brian K. Vaughan’s [and Cliff Chiang’s’] Paper Girls comic series now.” —The Los Angeles Times
“Every volume of Paper Girls has been marked by outstanding dialog, incredible, likable characters, and art worthy of the magnificent Fiona Staples, whose work on Saga has revived a kind of Jack Kirby/Canteen on Mos Eisley comic surrealism that Chiang is definitely dabbling in here.” —Boing Boing
“His plotting on Paper Girls is second to none, and lays subplot trails with an artistry that would be earning him all kinds of mainstream accolades if this were a Netflix series and not a comic book. But the look of Paper Girls is utterly gorgeous as well.” —The Guardian UK