Paper Girls Volume 1 (Paper Girls, 1)
Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s Eisner Award winning series Paper Girls is coming Amazon Prime Video in July 2022!
From Brian K. Vaughan, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure.
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.
Collecting Issues #1-5 for only $9.99! "Along with Paper Girls, Brian K. Vaughan is the writer/co-creator of the graphic novels Saga, The PrIvate Eye, We Stand On Guard, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, The Hood, and The Escapists. His work has been recognized at the Hugo, Eisner, Harvey, Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. BKV sometimes dabbles in film and television work from Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their loyal wiener dog Hamburger K. Vaughan. After graduating from the Kubert School JARED K. FLETCHER began working at DC Comics as part of their new in-house lettering department. A few years later, he left to pursue his freelance career as the proprietor of Studio Fantabulous. He spends his long days designing logos, books, t-shirts, art directing covers, and lettering comic books.CLIFF CHIANG began working in editorial for Vertigo Comics before making the leap into freelance illustration in 2000 and he hasn't looked back. He's best known for his work on Human Target, Green Arrow & Black Canary, and Wonder Woman. Cliff lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
MATT WILSON has been coloring comics since 2003, getting his start coloring for the comics coloring studio Zylonol Studios. After a few years in the studio, Matt eventually branched out on his own to color titles like Phonogram, Young Avengers, Thor, Daredevil, Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, and The Wicked + The Divine. In 2015, Matt's work earned him Eisner Award and Harvey Award nominations.
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From Brian K. Vaughan, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure.
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.
Collecting Issues #1-5 for only $9.99! "Along with Paper Girls, Brian K. Vaughan is the writer/co-creator of the graphic novels Saga, The PrIvate Eye, We Stand On Guard, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, The Hood, and The Escapists. His work has been recognized at the Hugo, Eisner, Harvey, Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. BKV sometimes dabbles in film and television work from Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their loyal wiener dog Hamburger K. Vaughan. After graduating from the Kubert School JARED K. FLETCHER began working at DC Comics as part of their new in-house lettering department. A few years later, he left to pursue his freelance career as the proprietor of Studio Fantabulous. He spends his long days designing logos, books, t-shirts, art directing covers, and lettering comic books.CLIFF CHIANG began working in editorial for Vertigo Comics before making the leap into freelance illustration in 2000 and he hasn't looked back. He's best known for his work on Human Target, Green Arrow & Black Canary, and Wonder Woman. Cliff lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
MATT WILSON has been coloring comics since 2003, getting his start coloring for the comics coloring studio Zylonol Studios. After a few years in the studio, Matt eventually branched out on his own to color titles like Phonogram, Young Avengers, Thor, Daredevil, Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, and The Wicked + The Divine. In 2015, Matt's work earned him Eisner Award and Harvey Award nominations.
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Nostalgia is a powerful motivator. It’s easy to tie emotion into the tangible things that were once so important to us. There was never a decade which put more importance on “things” than did the 80’s. There is a trend in pop culture right now to hook audiences with the personal nostalgia we associate with that decade so obsessed with stuff: “The Goldbergs,” “Comic Book Men,” the whole concept of retro gaming, etc. And while I just listed two of my favorite television shows – and you better believe I own the HD-remastings of “Ducktales” and “Street Fighter II,” the aforementioned pieces of popular culture aren’t ground-breaking new concepts. “Paper Girls,” Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (writer of “Saga” and “Y: The Last Man”) and Cliff Chiang (artist of “Beware The Creeper” and “Wonder Woman”) delivers a new story peppered with enough nostalgic references that readers will swear they’ve read it before, not having a clue of what is coming on the next page.
It’s the night after Halloween, 1987, in Stony Stream, Ohio – a suburb of Cleveland. Erin starts her early AM with a shoulder bag full of papers. But All Saints’ Day can be troublesome for a 12-year-old paper girl. Luckily, Erin encounters and then teams up with three other paper girls – Mac, Tiffany, and KJ – to fight off would-be bully teenage boys on their routes.
The girls are jumped by “three guys in bad ghost costumes” losing a walkie-talkie to the assailants (to be fair to Tiffany who saved all of her Christmas tips on the 2-way device, it’s a “Realistic TRC-218 CB with channel 14 Crystals). Assembling to launch and offensive strike on these thugs, the paper girls come to realize that the whole town’s population has almost completely disappeared, and the girls are in for a night that will forever change the future.
The paper girls all come from different socio-economic backgrounds, exposition that is wonderfully shown by Vaughn and Chiang through the use of setting. Talk to any pre-teen today, and it still holds true: what school you go to says a lot about where you come from.
Vaughn’s use of dialogue is what truly transported me back in time. Upon being introduced to Mac, Erin is quick to chastise, “You shouldn’t call anyone the other F-word.” (I forgot how casual the other F-word was used in my youth until I recently rewatched “The Monster Squad” and cringed at how freely it is used; I realized I was experiencing something other than nostalgia.) Likewise, the dialogue between the characters helps to naturally establish exposition without having an omniscient narrator. To that same end, Chiang is able to convey major points in the volume without any dialogue, let alone a square narrator’s box.
Of course, as with any story taking place in the 80’s, there are references to major cultural events (e.g. the assassination attempt on Regan, the Challenger explosion, John Lennon’s murder) but also more obscure pieces of 80’s culture (e.g. Rocky Dennis played by Eric Roberts in “Mask”, Jane Pauley on TODAY, “Peggy Sue Got Married”). But unlike other pieces of contemporary culture, “Paper Girls” isn’t dictated by the artifacts of nostalgia, but instead uses them to prime the reader’s emotions for an unpredictably exciting journey in time.
Pick up PAPER GIRLS if you like the films “Monster Squad,” “Explorers,” “Stand By Me,” and/or “Red Dawn.”
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Trent Hunsaker runs Death Ray Comics and is the program director for the A Part of Him Podcast Network. He writes for smodcast.com and is cohost on NetHeads.
It’s the night after Halloween, 1987, in Stony Stream, Ohio – a suburb of Cleveland. Erin starts her early AM with a shoulder bag full of papers. But All Saints’ Day can be troublesome for a 12-year-old paper girl. Luckily, Erin encounters and then teams up with three other paper girls – Mac, Tiffany, and KJ – to fight off would-be bully teenage boys on their routes.
The girls are jumped by “three guys in bad ghost costumes” losing a walkie-talkie to the assailants (to be fair to Tiffany who saved all of her Christmas tips on the 2-way device, it’s a “Realistic TRC-218 CB with channel 14 Crystals). Assembling to launch and offensive strike on these thugs, the paper girls come to realize that the whole town’s population has almost completely disappeared, and the girls are in for a night that will forever change the future.
The paper girls all come from different socio-economic backgrounds, exposition that is wonderfully shown by Vaughn and Chiang through the use of setting. Talk to any pre-teen today, and it still holds true: what school you go to says a lot about where you come from.
Vaughn’s use of dialogue is what truly transported me back in time. Upon being introduced to Mac, Erin is quick to chastise, “You shouldn’t call anyone the other F-word.” (I forgot how casual the other F-word was used in my youth until I recently rewatched “The Monster Squad” and cringed at how freely it is used; I realized I was experiencing something other than nostalgia.) Likewise, the dialogue between the characters helps to naturally establish exposition without having an omniscient narrator. To that same end, Chiang is able to convey major points in the volume without any dialogue, let alone a square narrator’s box.
Of course, as with any story taking place in the 80’s, there are references to major cultural events (e.g. the assassination attempt on Regan, the Challenger explosion, John Lennon’s murder) but also more obscure pieces of 80’s culture (e.g. Rocky Dennis played by Eric Roberts in “Mask”, Jane Pauley on TODAY, “Peggy Sue Got Married”). But unlike other pieces of contemporary culture, “Paper Girls” isn’t dictated by the artifacts of nostalgia, but instead uses them to prime the reader’s emotions for an unpredictably exciting journey in time.
Pick up PAPER GIRLS if you like the films “Monster Squad,” “Explorers,” “Stand By Me,” and/or “Red Dawn.”
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Trent Hunsaker runs Death Ray Comics and is the program director for the A Part of Him Podcast Network. He writes for smodcast.com and is cohost on NetHeads.
The novel is a bit hard to follow at times, but I might be reading wrong? I don't know. But other than that, it's a really interesting story and I am ready to read the second volume and figure out what is going on here! The plot is gripping as are the characters! I would definitely would recommend. For some this might not be a trigger, but for some it is, there is violence (someone does get beheaded)
Sometimes it pays to grab a Kindle deal of the day. I had heard about Paper Girls on the now-defunct Books on the Nightstand podcast so I added it to my Goodreads To-Read list. Goodreads awesomely sends out deals based on your list and Paper Girls was a $1.99 deal. So I grabbed it. I actually thought I would hate graphic novels on my Kindle but it was pretty cool. I could zoom in on each section then back out to see the whole page.
I started and finished Paper Girls in one evening, probably less than an hour, and immediately bought Volumes 2 and 3, heck with the deals.
Essentially, we have four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls who set out to deliver their papers on November 1st, 1988 (hell morning). They team up because apparently Halloweeners out past curfew are dicks and always harass the girls (color me surprised at teenage boys being assholes). Erin is new to the job and happily hangs with Mac, Tiff and KJ after she's harassed by a Freddy Krueger wannabe. Mac seems to be the toughest of the group and the first girl to get a paper route.
Things start getting really weird when a group of guys attack Tiff and KJ and steal the walkie talkie the girls are using to communicate. The guys don't speak English but we really don't know what they speak. The girls try to follow them and end up in an abandoned house and find a ..... what is that? No time to find out because shit starts happening.
People vanish, giant bird dinosaur things come out of the sky and strange strange people are out in the streets. The girls are on their own.
This flung itself out into a crazy weird time travel but not really kind of way and I LOVED IT.
I started and finished Paper Girls in one evening, probably less than an hour, and immediately bought Volumes 2 and 3, heck with the deals.
Essentially, we have four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls who set out to deliver their papers on November 1st, 1988 (hell morning). They team up because apparently Halloweeners out past curfew are dicks and always harass the girls (color me surprised at teenage boys being assholes). Erin is new to the job and happily hangs with Mac, Tiff and KJ after she's harassed by a Freddy Krueger wannabe. Mac seems to be the toughest of the group and the first girl to get a paper route.
Things start getting really weird when a group of guys attack Tiff and KJ and steal the walkie talkie the girls are using to communicate. The guys don't speak English but we really don't know what they speak. The girls try to follow them and end up in an abandoned house and find a ..... what is that? No time to find out because shit starts happening.
People vanish, giant bird dinosaur things come out of the sky and strange strange people are out in the streets. The girls are on their own.
This flung itself out into a crazy weird time travel but not really kind of way and I LOVED IT.
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