Cristy C. Road is floating in a pool of her own blood, sweat, and occasional tears. Road is a 27-year-old Cuban-American illustrator and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and social justice- she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her obsession with making art accessible began when publishing GREEN'ZINE in 1996- a fanzine entirely devoted to Green Day. The exclusivity of high art disgusted her, as she fell in love with a xerox machine. Eventually, she made friends, found solace outside of a single band, and began including blurbs on other punk rock bands, gender identity, masturbation, sexuality, aimless travel, and anarchist organizing. Her preferred medium is Micron Ink pens, Sharpies, and Chartpak markers. Although, coloring techniques range from Markers, Fluid Acrylic, and Digital Color (One layer on Photoshop/Wacom Tablet! No Vectors!). Today, Road has moved onto illustrated novels, taking both writing and visual elements a step more seriously, her visual diagram of lifestyles and beliefs stay in tune to the zine’s portrayal of living.
While a student at The Ringling School of Art and Design in 2000, Road had many arguments about the representation of (the typically thin, nude, pale) women in art, and saw little in the musings she overheard equating illustration to commercial art. Her illustration teacher was rad- although she wasnt too sure about the overall conservative administration. Roughly four years after leaving Ringling, her repertoire consists of ten years of independent publishing, two graphic novels, and countless illustrations for a broad slew of magazines, record album art, concert posters, and political organizations.
In early 2006, Road released an anomalous illustrated storybook, entitled INDESTRUCTIBLE (Microcosm Publishing). It’s a 96-page narrative about her experience as a teenager, where Road tackles the themes of being Latina, class, rebellion, gender, queerness, mental health, and death; all beneath the topical umbrella of being a teenage Floridian punk rocker in the early 90‘s. Road has recently completed a Collection of postcards featuring art from 2001-2007, entitled DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW SICK (Microcosm Publishing). Road just released BAD HABITS (Soft Skull Press), an Illustrated love story about a faltering human heart's telepathic connections to the destruction of New York City. Road currently is working on paintings, short stories, and her punk band THE HOMEWRECKERS . She hibernates in Brooklyn, NY with a short attention span and a killer gas problem.