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.

In this stunning memoir, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing suburban conformity she is surrounded by.

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. Road brings to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker ( Bitch ).

In this graphic memoir, cult illustrator Cristy C. She has also illustrated countless record album covers, book covers, political organization propaganda, and magazine articles.Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you-suddenly, you belong. She has since published Indestructible, an illustrated novel about high school Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard book and Bad Habits, an illustrated love story about self-destruction and healing. She has reached cult status for work that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Road is a twenty-nine-year-old Cuban American artist and writer from Miami she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She finds solace in the closet-where she lets her deep excitement about punk rock foment, and finds in that angst and euphoria a path to self-acceptance.Ĭristy C. In this stunning graphic biography, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing suburban conformity she is surrounded by. Road is struggling to balance tradition in a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day.

'Road's writing has long brought to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker.'- Bitch magazineĪt its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. She has a list of published work that leaves me awed and inspired.'-Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day

Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road