Well it’s out on blogs, especially Heidi McDonald’s The Beat.

Veronique Tanaka of Metronome that we published is in fact… Bryan Talbot. Yes, that Bryan of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat (which I personally think is his magnum opus) and more recently Alice in Sunderland.

And of the Art of Bryan Talbot which we also published.

Turns out Heidi’s post is creating quite a controversy, JT Leroy has already been mentioned and two famous comics bloggers have knives drawn as we speak.

Haaaa, Bryan, you’re a genius, I luv ya. Except you could have given me some warning, ya know?

And if this makes you check out the very arresting work that is Metronome -and is absolutely unrecognizable as Bryan’s work, btw, that’s the REAL genius- then great! ‘Cause it’s another GN we’re very proud of having in our catalog. JT Tanaka or not.

Japan’s English language newspaper, The Daily Yomiuri, had some kind words on Metronome:

“Offers a surprisingly engaging story that, without the hindrance of language, anyone can understand. Tanaka makes good use of rythmn, themes and cadences to set the scene and mood.”

About Metronome by Veronique Tanaka:

“A bold pushing of the formal envelope, it bills itself as a ‘visual poem’, but with its regimented film-like frames and hypnotic four-four repetition, it evokes music and stroboscopic cinema.”

The Boston Phoenix

This morning’s Wall Street Journal has a comics article presenting the work of David B on the occasion of our publication of his 2nd book to come over the Atlantic after the very successful Epileptic.

Entitled “Night Visions, A French Artist Aims to Stretch the Boundaries of Cartooning”, the article presents our brand new Nocturnal Conspiracies by David B, now available at stores everywhere.

NBM has enjoyed an exceptional end of year with the media with Moresukine in the New York Times Book Review last weekend, New York Magazine declaring Metronome a top ten graphic novel, Publishers Weekly putting Rick Geary’s The Lindbergh Child amongst top GNs of the year along with School Library Journal including Geary’s entire Treasury of Murder series in no less than 2 lists of the best for young adults.

Note from publisher Terry Nantier: THIS is OUR answer to the recession! We’re givin’ the finger to it! (Hey nothing wrong with a little hubris here and there, no?)

New York Magazine has just announced their top ten in all things culture and that includes a list of top ten Graphic Novels where our Veronique Tanaka’s arresting silent GN Metronome is seventh tied with another silent GN called Travel.