My Chemical Romance singer launching comic book

My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way is launching a new comic book series called The Umbrella Academy this September, according to Entertainment Weekly. The storyline, conceived by Way and drawn by Brazilian artist Gabriel Ba, follows a team of teenage superheroes as they struggle with adulthood. Way was an artist and animator before starting My Chemical Romance and told us that his previous career still has an influence on his music: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "All of my background from before the band has to do with the way we kind of attack it today. You know, the art background being like to me one of the most important things, and the fact that I was a storyteller before I was a singer, it just meant I was gonna tell more stories. And the fact that the aesthetic is just as important sometimes as the music, that all comes from that place."

The 30-year-old Way dropped out of New York City's School of Visual Arts to put together My Chemical Romance.

The Umbrella Academy will run for six issues, with the first one titled The Day The Eiffel Tower Went Berserk.

My Chemical Romance is currently on the road in Europe and will hit North America this summer as part of Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour, beginning in late July.

The latest single and video from the group's current album, The Black Parade, is "Teenagers."
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