Way is the creator of the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Way wrote the comic books that the series is based on and now has his own fan base for his written work.

When The Umbrella Academy landed on Netflix, it gained a lot of attention among My Chemical Romance Fans (MCR), who knew Way as the band’s singer. As it turns out, comic book writing has always been Way’s calling.

“A lot of people at the time, right before Umbrella came out, knew me as a singer in a band,” he shared at Virtual Comic-Con.

“But I had this long history with comics, and kind of making my own and getting published at 15 and using my grandmother’s typewriter. But then I went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and my major was cartooning. So I had all these comic book classes, and in my senior year I interned at DC – I interned there for like a year.”

Way still had a passion for music and MCR was his creation. He reflected on the band’s rise to fame: “This band that I had started, really started to take off. Then all of us quit our jobs and we get in the van and we just start touring.”

Season two of The Umbrella Academy will premier on Netflix July 31st.

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The third installment of his Umbrella Academy comic series was announced back in 2009. It has taken over eight years for the installment, titled The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion to emerge.

Way posted about the new trailer on Instagram, revealing: “I’m having a hard time containing my excitement over the fact that something named ‘oblivion’ is actually the start of so many new things! It’s a story about time and age and mistakes and redemption.”

He also shared snippets of the trailer:

Way discussed the project with The Hollywood Reporter, revealing: “It is intentional in its differences to the previously published material. It was what we had to do to keep it fresh for ourselves. We weren’t interested in telling the same kind of story as we had done before; we had evolved and changed as people and as creators, and I think we wanted to show that.”

He continued: “I think it was fairly easy for the two of us to ease back into these characters. It felt right. But we were able to bring how we changed into the world, which really appealed to us.”

“These characters really are a part of us — or there are parts of us in these characters. I do feel differently about the characters, and I think that is one of the most exciting things about this series. I discovered new things about them, and reprocessed old things about them saw them through a different lens. So there wasn’t so much relearning as there was further exploration.”

You can buy the first two installments of Way’s Umbrella Academy in stores now.

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Way is the creator of the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Way wrote the comic books that the series is based on and now has his own fan base for his written work.

When The Umbrella Academy landed on Netflix, it gained a lot of attention among My Chemical Romance Fans (MCR), who knew Way as the band’s singer. As it turns out, comic book writing has always been Way’s calling.

“A lot of people at the time, right before Umbrella came out, knew me as a singer in a band,” he shared at Virtual Comic-Con.

“But I had this long history with comics, and kind of making my own and getting published at 15 and using my grandmother’s typewriter. But then I went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and my major was cartooning. So I had all these comic book classes, and in my senior year I interned at DC – I interned there for like a year.”

Way still had a passion for music and MCR was his creation. He reflected on the band’s rise to fame: “This band that I had started, really started to take off. Then all of us quit our jobs and we get in the van and we just start touring.”

Season two of The Umbrella Academy will premier on Netflix July 31st.

The post MCR’s Gerard Way Talks His Ongoing Love of Comic Books appeared first on EverydayKoala.

The third installment of his Umbrella Academy comic series was announced back in 2009. It has taken over eight years for the installment, titled The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion to emerge.

Way posted about the new trailer on Instagram, revealing: “I’m having a hard time containing my excitement over the fact that something named ‘oblivion’ is actually the start of so many new things! It’s a story about time and age and mistakes and redemption.”

He also shared snippets of the trailer:

Way discussed the project with The Hollywood Reporter, revealing: “It is intentional in its differences to the previously published material. It was what we had to do to keep it fresh for ourselves. We weren’t interested in telling the same kind of story as we had done before; we had evolved and changed as people and as creators, and I think we wanted to show that.”

He continued: “I think it was fairly easy for the two of us to ease back into these characters. It felt right. But we were able to bring how we changed into the world, which really appealed to us.”

“These characters really are a part of us — or there are parts of us in these characters. I do feel differently about the characters, and I think that is one of the most exciting things about this series. I discovered new things about them, and reprocessed old things about them saw them through a different lens. So there wasn’t so much relearning as there was further exploration.”

You can buy the first two installments of Way’s Umbrella Academy in stores now.

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