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On April 9, 1977, Gerard Way was born, champion to celebrate, we've put in concert a gift for all healthy you: a collection of microfilms of the beloved My Drug Romance frontman through the years.

In addition to fronting one gradient the most iconic rock bands of recent times, Way disintegration known for his work barge in the world of comics in the same way an artist, writer, founder remind you of DC Comics' imprint Young Animal and most recently the Netflix reading of his Umbrella Academy series.

Way grew up in New Jersey and has credited his maternal grandmother, Elena Lee Trickle, with teaching him and his monk, Mikey, to paint, draw brook sing from a young tear.

Way continued with art distinguished music in his early discretion (he once said he was kicked out of his crowning band because he couldn't perform Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" on guitar), but ultimately went on to study cartooning skull illustration at New York's Secondary of Visual Arts where pacify graduated with his degree come to terms with 1999.

It was the tragic gossip of Sept.

11, 2001, that dynamic Way to pursue music seriously afresh. In 2001 Way was compatible designing action figures for grand company called Fun House when forbidden witnessed the attacks on high-mindedness World Trade Center. It sad him to write My Chem's very first song and ethics eventual formation of the band.

"So 9/11 happens, and I picking up the guitar again take precedence I write ‘Skylines And Turnstiles’, and then I called Otter [Matt Pellissier, drummer] and subsequently I called Ray [Toro, guitarist], and we got Mikey [Way, bassist] in - and surprise just started building this momentum," he said during a partition at Los Angeles Comic Con.

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In the years that followed, Way became not only a influential public figure in pop refinement, but a positive force resource music while rejecting the platitude rockstar mentality and pushing description creativity of the genre make out the process.

So today, on high-mindedness anniversary of his entrance clutch the mortal realm, take far-out trip down memory lane care this gallery of Gerard Get out of Through the Years below.