Toxicosmos #21

Toxicosmos

THE LONELINESS OF THE DRAWER
Adrian Tomine
Sapristi | 2020
In The loneliness of the cartoonist, by Adrian Tomine, We discover who has managed to make a living from his passion as a child, when I read Marvel comics and dreamed of being a famous cartoonist. Drawn as a sketch with black strokes on squared paper, in their 160 pages reviews a career full of memories and anecdotes (recreating in the most embarrassing and comical), resulting, on many occasions, of your insecurities and fears. An honest view of the industry you don't always fit into, but that compensates with his personal life as a father, that he does not leave aside in this intimate autobiography that brings us closer to the person than to the artist..

THE WONDERS
Elena Medel
Anagram | 2020
Who will sign some texts to announce the first Toxicosmos parties? (almost twenty years ago), always very close to our radio program, Elena Medel, publish now The wonders, his first novel after several books of poetry. A literary activist who debuts with a book set in a broad temporal spectrum (from Spain at the end of the sixties to the present) and with several stories of working women with a common link: the money (or the lack of) and daily routines with their emotional ups and downs. A novel about family, care and inherited precariousness from the female point of view.

DISCO LOCAL:
FIGHTING LION
Powerful and strong
Kocliko Records | 2020
With greater instrumentation than in her previous albums and beautiful arrangements that surround her melancholic voice, The Asturian based in Valencia León de Batalla returns with a new collection of intimate songs that at times reminds us of The Good Life and the Donosti Sound.

NATIONAL DISC:
THE CLARITY
The clarity
Snap! Clap! Club! | 2020
The clarity is the debut EP of a very young band of the same name that is around twenty but sounds adult, majestic and moving. Don't lose sight of the song “The Good”, one of the most exciting we've heard in a long time.

INTERNATIONAL DISC:
DOMINIQUE A
Strange life
Wagram Music / Five 7 | 2020
Our favorite French, Dominique A, returns with a new collection of calm and slow songs that reminds us at times of that essential “Le mémoire neuve” that he just completed 25 years. Vie étrange is an album for those of us who enjoy the same old Dominique A.