Ian Brill has a short interview with Tanaka about her new graphic novel, Metronome, over at Publisher’s Weekly:
PWCW: The story of Metronome is about a relationship based around sex and nothing else. Was that an inspiration to use the 4/4 rhythm? Sex, like comics, can have a musical rhythm to it.
VT: No, it was based on music. I made the man in the story a musician. I think sex is more like 2/2 time! In the book, I have sometimes single beats for an image, or [two, three or four images per 'beat'] I do body-pump exercise twice a week. It is like aerobics with music and works on a 4/4 rhythm. For example, you can do a bicep curl three beats up, one down, or two up and one down, or singles. I think this is where I get the idea of presenting the images in 4/4 time.
