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9.08.2005

New York Times to begin a comics page

In two weeks, The New York Times will finally start publishing a comic strip, but not the three-panel kind. Starting with the September 18th issue, the Times' Sunday magazine will publish full-page installments of a graphic novel as part of a new 10-page section called The Funny Pages, which will also carry a humor column and serialized fiction.

Gerald Marzorati, the editor of the magazine, said the comics page, which will be called The Strip, won't bear much resemblance to the traditional Sunday comics that appear in most newspapers. What the reader will be getting is a graphic novel in serial form Marzorati said. What they won't get is a three-panel strip with a gag at the end.

Popular crime writer Elmore Leonard has been commission to write the first fiction series, the Times said in an announcement Tuesday, while Chris Ware, author of the best-selling graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, will produce the first seriliazed graphic novel.

Chris at 4:02 PM  |  link to this     

3 Comments

Interesting. Gotta hand it to the NYT for being innovative.

Dembicki at 9/09/2005 11:36 AM   

Innovative ? This is how comic books started in the 30's - collections of stuff had been published in the newspapers. I would put it more in the vien of mainstreaming Chris Ware, albeit witht he approval of the NYT.

andy at 9/10/2005 7:48 PM   

The NYT is certainly letting down its hair with what I assume will be a full-page comic page in color on high-quality paper. And I'd be willing to bet there's a an agreement in hand to publish the entire novel when it runs its course in the newspaper (something that wasn't around in the early days, when Pappa Gaines slapped together previously run strips into a bound book initially conceived for promotion instead of making profit on its own right.) Just because it was innovative in the '30s doesn't mean a fresher but siliar approach isn't innovative today.

Dembicki at 9/15/2005 10:12 AM   

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