Road self-published Green’zine for ten years, and has since released three illustrated novels which tackle gender, sexuality, mental health and cultural identity truthfully spoken with curse words and bathroom humor: “Indestructible” (2005), “Bad Habits” (2008), “Spit and Passion” (2013), and her most recent project, The Next World Tarot, a traditionally illustrated Tarot deck depicting resilience and revolution. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer and musician who’s been supplying creativity for punk rock, publishing, & social justice movements since she was a teenager in Miami, circa 1997. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.Cristy C. She has also illustrated countless album covers, book jackets, and political organization propaganda. She has since published Indestructible, an illustrated novel about high school Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard book and Bad Habits, a love story about self-destruction and healing. Her career began with Greenzine, a punk rock zine, which she made for ten years. Road has reached cult status for work that captures the beauty of the imperfect. She finds solace in the closet-where she lets her deep excitement about punk rock foment and, in that angst and euphoria, finds a path to self-acceptance.Ĭristy C. In this stunning memoir, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing suburban conformity she is surrounded by.
Road brings "to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker" ( Bitch).Īt twelve years old, Cristy is trying to balance the values of a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day.
In this graphic memoir, cult illustrator Cristy C. Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you-suddenly, you belong.
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