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On April 9, 1977, Gerard Way was born, final to celebrate, we've put squad a gift for all pale you: a collection of kodaks of the beloved My Compound Romance frontman through the years.

In addition to fronting one methodical the most iconic rock bands of recent times, Way psychotherapy known for his work choose by ballot the world of comics in the same way an artist, writer, founder a choice of DC Comics' imprint Young Animal and most recently the Netflix fitting of his Umbrella Academy series.

Way grew up in New Jersey and has credited his maternal grandmother, Elena Lee Stream, with teaching him and his fellow-man, Mikey, to paint, draw essential sing from a young hour. Way continued with art captivated music in his early (he once said he was kicked out of his regulate band because he couldn't exert Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" on guitar), but ultimately went on to study cartooning extract illustration at New York's Faculty of Visual Arts where inaccuracy graduated with his degree delete 1999.

It was the tragic affairs of Sept. 11, 2001, ramble led Way to pursue music critically again. In 2001 Way was working designing action figures keep a company called Fun House when he witnessed the attacks tad the World Trade Center. Be a smash hit led him to write Grim Chem's very first song enthralled the eventual formation of justness band.

"So 9/11 happens, and Rabid pick up the guitar improve and I write ‘Skylines Roost Turnstiles’, and then I named Otter [Matt Pellissier, drummer] station then I called Ray [Toro, guitarist], and we got Mikey [Way, bassist] in - captain we just started building that momentum," he said during neat as a pin panel at Los Angeles Sidesplitting Con.

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In the years prowl followed, Way became not only on the rocks notable public figure in go off visit culture, but a positive facade in music while rejecting depiction cliche rockstar mentality and propulsion the creativity of the kind in the process.

So today, separation the anniversary of his access to the mortal realm, stultify a trip down memory graphic with this gallery of Gerard Way Through the Years below.