I take the train, early in the morning, to get to the capital. It will take me an hour and ten minutes, which depending on how you look at it, is little or a lot. It serves me to read, reply to messages, face the day with some calm and think that I won't use the phone again until I return at night. It's a train that runs well (it's the Catalan ones) and should have more frequent service. It's always full of tourists coming and going from Montserrat.

Ana Peñas (Valencia, 1987) acknowledges that he has always been a light sleeper, but what leads him to dedicate his third comic to the insomnia epidemic is the need to portray the economic, housing and emotional precarity of today's society. Blank, which Salamandra publishes in Catalan and Spanish, is the new work by the author ofWe're all okay. (2018 National Comic Award) and Everything Under the Sun (ACDCómic Critics' Award 2022), a voice of conscience for the new Spanish comics.

We read in the ARA that Japan's new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, known for "being a tireless worker," left home last Friday "shortly after 3:00 a.m. to convene a meeting with advisors before an appearance before Parliament."