![]() He graduated from the school in 1999 with a bachelor’s in Fine Arts. ![]() Gerard Way went to Belleville High School and graduated in 1995 before he proceeded to New York City, where he attended the School of Visual Arts. He was a panelist on Sally Jesse Raphael at sixteen years of age where he discussed the publicizing of Jeffrey Dahmer, a very controversial topic at the time. However, the comic had to be discontinued after the second issue given that the art team pulled out of the project. Way made his first attempt at comic book writing in 1993 when he was only 16 as he penned “On Raven’s Wings” a comic book that was published by Bonyard Press. He also credits Bon Jovi the glam metal band for getting him interested in music while he was in elementary school. Gerard credits his maternal grandmother Elena Rush as his greatest influence as she taught him how to paint sing and perform from a very young age. ![]() ![]() His parents realized he had artistic talent when he was cast as Peter Pan in a musical production as a fourth-grader. He was brought up in the city of Belleville in New Jersey. He was born in 1977 in Summit New Jersey to Donald Way and Donna Lee Way that were of Scottish and Italian ancestry. ![]() The Umbrella Academy is a series of comics by American musician, songwriter, singer, and comic book author Gerard Way. ![]()
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