As part of this weekend’s virtual Comic-Con, Gerard Way starred in a special Dark Horse All-Stars panel to discuss creativity and the process of writing comic books. In the insightful almost hour-long chat, the My Chemical Romance frontman spoke alongside Nnedi Okorafor and Matt Kindt, and detailed his beginnings in the world of comics, and how his most well-known series, The Umbrella Academy, eventually came to be. “A lot of people at the time, right before Umbrella came out, knew me as a singer in a band,” he explains. “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 h...
