Spit and Passion
Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you--suddenly, you belong. In this graphic memoir, cult illustrator Cristy C. Road brings to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker (Bitch).
At 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 stunning memoir, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing suburban conformity she is surrounded by. 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.
Cristy C. Road has reached cult status for work that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began with Greenzine, a punk rock zine, which she made for ten years. 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. She has also illustrated countless album covers, book jackets, and political organization propaganda. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Cristy C. 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, circa1997. 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. C.Road's illustrations has been featured in New York Magazine, The
Advocate, The New York Times, Maximumrocknroll, Razorcake, Bitch Magazine,
Bust Magazine, and countless other publications; as well as on shirts, record
album covers, concert and political advocacy posters worldwide.
As a musician, Road is a songwriter and guitarist. She fronted the pop-punk
group The Homewreckers for eight years, and currently fronts her new project,
Choked Up.
Road has been touring nationally and internationally on her own, with her
punk rock bands, and with Sister Spit: The Next Generation since 2001.
Cultivating a performance trajectory with a consistent show of defiance, she
performs at bookstores, record stores, basements, bars, college campuses, and
beyond.
She is a Gemini and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
