The New York Times has announced that, starting next week, they’ll be running a ten-page section of the paper devoted to a comic with rotating creators, exclusive to the NYT. No word yet on who will be taking over the reins after Chris Ware wraps up the inaugural story, but I expect it’ll be someone good. Even if you aren’t a NYT subscriber or reader, you’ll still be able to peruse their comics through their website.

Each Sunday beginning Sept. 18, the magazine will run “The Strip,” a serialized, full-color and full-page comic strip that will feature one self-contained story. The strips will be created by what the Times announcement calls “stars of the graphic novel,” with each running about six months. The first strip will be by alternative newspaper star Chris Ware, author of the graphic novel, “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.” His first Times strip “tells the story of a young girl and her adventures in her apartment house,” the magazine said.

The new section will also include the Times Magazine’s first foray into fiction with “The Sunday Serial.” The 14-week installments of an original work will kick off with a story by Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of “Get Shorty” and other novels. His serial will be followed by one from Patricia Cornwell.

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