Gerard Way

Gerard married the musician and bassisit of ‘Mindless Self Indulgence’ Lyn-Z Lee on 3rd September, 2007. He married her backstage at the ‘Projekt Revolution’ tour with a member of the ‘Live Nation’s’ touring staff officiating as the minister.

On 27th May 2009, the couple welcomed their daughter, Bandit Lee Way. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles, California.

Gerard Arthur Way was born on 9th April, 1977 at Summit, New Jersey to Donna and Donald Way. He is of Scottish and Italian descent. He was raised in Belleville, New Jersey along with his younger brother, Mikey Way.

He grew up under the guidance of his grandmother, Elena Lee Rush. She taught him to paint, sing and perform. He was in elementary school when he first performed at a school musical in which he played the role of Peter Pan.

After listening to the influential ‘Bon Jovi’, Way decided to become a performer. He began immersing himself in music and drawing. While other kids of his age took to partying, Way kept to himself.

High School was his roughest phase and not many people understood him. His only companion was his brother. He became an alcoholic and got into trouble with the cops too.

At the age of sixteen he began writing comic strips on a fictional serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. Upon graduating from ‘Belleville High School’ in 1995, he decided to attend ‘The School of Visual Arts’ in New York and pursue a career in the comic industry.

After landing a job with ‘Cartoon Network’ all seemed to go well for Way. He and Joe Boyle created a cartoon called ‘The Breakfast Monkey’ and pitched it to the Network. But the project was declined owing to its similarities with the existing ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’.

However, after the September 11, 2001 attack his life changed forever. The incident stirred a desire to make a difference and reach out to people and so Way took the music route to attain his goal.

In 2001, he began writng the song ‘Skylines and Turnstiles’ projecting people’s emotional battle after the attack which became the first song of his self-formed band ‘My Chemical Romance’.

Gerard alongside Ray Toro, Frank Lero and his brother, Mikey Way, as guitarists got the pianist James Dewees to join them and carved success for the band.

The following year the band released their debut studio album titled ‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love’. The album was certified gold by ‘RIAA’ selling over 500,000 units.

After the success of his first comic book, he began working with Shaun Simon in 2009 and co-created a comic series called ‘The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys’.

In 2012, Way announced at the ‘New york Comic Con’ that readers would get a peek into the series on its ‘Free Comic Book Day’ release in 2013. The same year he and Gabriel Ba began working on sequeals for ‘The Umbrella Academy’.

In an interview he stated that the upcoming parts of his comic book would be more detailed and would release two volumes one after another with a few flashback publishings in-between.

Simultaneously, he began working on a comic series centered around cats titled ‘All Ages’ and signed a deal with the ‘Marvel Universe’ the same year for a comic series that developed an alternate universe for Spider-Man titled ‘Edge of Spider-Verse’.

He made his directional debut as the co-writer and co-director of the season two finale episode of ‘The Aquabats! Super Show!’ It earned a ‘Daytime Emmy Award’ for ‘Oustanding Writing in a Children’s Series’.