Cristy C. Road is floating in a pool of her own blood, sweat, and occasional tears. Road is a 27-year-old Cuban-American artist 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. (She currently is beginning work on a fully illustrated Graphic Novel.)

Cristy graduated from The Ringling School of Art and Design in 2004, despite many arguments about the representation (and credit given to) women in art, and the definiton of Illustration versus commercial art. Afterall, she was hardly on campus; spending most of 2000-2005 investing in radical organizing and zine writing, alone, somewhere far away. Since leaving Florida, her repertoire consists of ten years of independent publishing, and countless illustrations for a broad slew of magazines, record album art, concert posters, and political organizations. Aside from creating art; Road has been performing with her work on her own,and as part of SISTER SPIT: The Next Generation , an all-queer spoken word road-show.

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, sexuality, mental health, and death; all beneath the topical umbrella of being a teenage Floridian queer 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). In 2008, Road released BAD HABITS (Soft Skull Press), an Illustrated love story about healing from abuse, reconnecting to your culture and sex organs, drugs, and acquiring telepathic connections to the destruction of New York City. Road currently is working on new art, local organizing, and her punk band THE HOMEWRECKERS . She hibernates in Brooklyn, NY with a short attention span and a killer gas problem.

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