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shewhomustBryan Talbot introduced us to the work of Véronique Tanaka. He met her at the comics festival in Angoulême, it seems, where she showed him her experimental comic Metronome.
Bryan was very impressed, and agreed to help Véronique promote her work. It also struck him that Metronome was sufficiently regular in form that it could be animated frame-by-frame without further change. I wasn't entirely convinced when he showed me the paper version (I've said before, I like books, and I like the freedom of reading at my own pace and in my own direction), but having seen the animation, I'm won over. It loses that quality of comics, that the individual panel does one thing, and the page as a whole does another, so there is still a place for a paper publication, but the animation has a rythmic, almost musical structure, which is quite hypnotic.
View Metronome (for a small fee) at the Shadow Gallery.
Bryan was very impressed, and agreed to help Véronique promote her work. It also struck him that Metronome was sufficiently regular in form that it could be animated frame-by-frame without further change. I wasn't entirely convinced when he showed me the paper version (I've said before, I like books, and I like the freedom of reading at my own pace and in my own direction), but having seen the animation, I'm won over. It loses that quality of comics, that the individual panel does one thing, and the page as a whole does another, so there is still a place for a paper publication, but the animation has a rythmic, almost musical structure, which is quite hypnotic.
View Metronome (for a small fee) at the Shadow Gallery.
