Bryan Talbot's experimental silent graphic novel previously published pseudonymously.

From the publisher:

In this bold experimental work, father of the British graphic novel Bryan Talbot uses structure, rhythm, form, repetition, and alteration to create an adults-only experience that is fascinating, innovative, trippy, and erotic.

Metronome is wordless. Its language is purely visual, even as it creates a sense of a sound, a beat, that can be sensed even though it is not truly heard.

Acclaimed as one of the top graphic novels of the year by New York magazine, which called it an "elegant, wordless work of art."

Introduction by Bone creator Jeff Smith.

This book was originally published in 2008, credited to nom de plume "Véronique Tanaka". This edition contains interviews with both Talbot and Tanaka.

Bryan Talbot has won the Eisner Award, the Mekon Award, the UK Comic Art Award, the Eagle Award, the Haxtur Award, and the Costa biography award. In 2024 he was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame.

From the original publisher in 2008:

Just when you thought that nobody could create something new in the comic medium, here comes Metronome - a 64-page debut graphic novel by Véronique Tanaka: a "silent", erotically-charged visual poem, an experimental non-linear story using a palette of iconic ligne clair images. Symbolism, visual puns and trompe l'oeil conspire in a visual mantra that could be described as "existential manga" if it wasn't for the fact that there is a very human and elegantly-structured tale of a doomed relationship providing a solid foundation to the cutting-edge storytelling. A gorgeous art book/graphic novel from a mysterious new artist. An experience not to be missed!