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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to '''[[ZineWiki:About|ZineWiki]]!'''</div>
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<div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">the zine encyclopedia that [[ZineWiki:Introduction|anyone can edit]]</div>
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[[Image:Medusa.jpg|thumb|right|Artwork by Cristy Road]]
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'''Cristy Road''' is a Cuban-American [[zinester]] and graphic artist originally from Miami and living in [[New York]]. She wrote the [[perzine]] [[Greenzine]] and has published a series of books and [[graphic novel|graphic novels]].
  
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The '''Zinester Podcasts''' are free mp3 audio files regularly produced and published by [[Fall of Autumn]], and intended for download and playback through a personal computer or a portable mp3 player.
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In 2012 she released [[Spit and Passion]] (Feminist Press), a graphic novel about surviving the pre-teen closet amidst a homophobic society. Road's prior books include [[Indestructible]] ([[Microcosm Publishing]], 2006), [[Bad Habits]] (Microcosm Publishing, 2008), and [[Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick]] (Microcosm Publishing, 2007).
  
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''Greenzine'' began in 1997 as a Green Day [[fanzine]], but gradually became a [[perzine]] about Road's various homes of Miami and Philadelphia, racism in her communities, the strength of her friends, coming to terms with assault, gender, sexuality, and identity and more. The final issue, #14, was published in 2004. [[Cristy_Road|Read More...]]'''
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Characteristically taking the format of short radio segments, episodes in the [[Zinester]] Podcast series each feature one writer's presentation of a selection from her/his [[zine]]. Common to the show format is a soundtrack mainly featuring independent artists, though some shows instead rely on soundscapes related to the piece being read, like the radio dramas of the '40s and '50s.
 
  
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The Fall of Autumn Zinester Podcasts were initially available only on the Fall of Autumn website, however, the Zinester Podcasts were accepted into Apple's ''iTunes Music Store'' and in April of 2006, were broadcasted live on the air during the "The Great Sound Caper" hour on '''CHMR 93.5 FM''' in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador St. Johns, NL Canada].
 
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In January 2007, the 10,000th individual episode was downloaded.
 
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== Episode Archive ==
 
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* [[Josh Dumas]] live at Around the Coyote ([[Tense Forms]]) (May 2007)
 
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* "A Message to my Hardcore Fans" and "35th Street Bakery" by [[Pups]] ([[Black Carrot]]) (May 2007)
 
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* [[Jeb Gleason-Allured]] live at Around the Coyote ([[The 2nd Hand]]) (May 2007)
 
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Revision as of 05:23, 16 January 2013

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Artwork by Cristy Road

Cristy Road is a Cuban-American zinester and graphic artist originally from Miami and living in New York. She wrote the perzine Greenzine and has published a series of books and graphic novels.

In 2012 she released Spit and Passion (Feminist Press), a graphic novel about surviving the pre-teen closet amidst a homophobic society. Road's prior books include Indestructible (Microcosm Publishing, 2006), Bad Habits (Microcosm Publishing, 2008), and Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick (Microcosm Publishing, 2007).

Greenzine began in 1997 as a Green Day fanzine, but gradually became a perzine about Road's various homes of Miami and Philadelphia, racism in her communities, the strength of her friends, coming to terms with assault, gender, sexuality, and identity and more. The final issue, #14, was published in 2004. Read More...

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