Long famous for never having a comics section, the New York Times is preparing to change that next week. Starting Sept 18th, The Funny Pages will appear as an insert in the NYT magazine. Along with original fiction and humor, there will indeed be a strip included, called - somewhat obviously - The Strip. And their first choice of artist is a killer decision. Describing The Strip, the NYT press release says:
Stars of the graphic novel create serialized comic strips exclusively for Times Magazine readers. Each week's full-page color-strip features one self-contained story, and each strip will run for approximately six months. Chris Ware, whose best-selling graphic novel, “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” has won numerous literary prizes, will create the first strip. It tells the story of a young girl and her adventures in her apartment house.
Six months of weekly Chris Ware stories? I think I've died and gone to heaven.
(Click on the above thumbnail for a larger view of a page of original art by Chris Ware that I am very proud to own.)
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I guess this means we'll be renewing our NYT subscription...
I'll be waiting for the trade. You don't want to know what the Sunday Times costs down here. After 6 months I would have been able to use the money saved to buy that piece of artwork off of Scaramouch.
I'm not so sure - that piece cost me an arm, a leg, and several other extremities.
Hey, that's GREAT!
In between reading about political scandals, white men kidnapping and raping/murdering children in Kennebunkport, black men pimping out teen white girls a few blocks out of the 'safe area' known as Times Square, disasters, the economy falling to shit, some Sand Nigger coming over here to blow us all up, some brainwashed rightist fuckwad helping the Sand Niggers to blow us all up, women who won't shut the FUCK UP, men who won't shut the FUCK UP, and most of all the end of the fucking world as we know it, the Times will finally have the FUNNY PAGES?!?!?
Ooooooooh, yeah... fucking funny.
I'm laughing already.
On a lighter note, someone somewhere noted that after the exploits of Jayson Blair and Judith Miller it's not quite true for the NY Times to say this would be the first time they are printing fiction.
true. true.