Category: mcr scans
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guitar world 2/11/2011
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04/21/2022 metal hammer
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2006 heartbreak graphic novel gerard is featured in
gerard wrote the intro to this graphic novel in 2006. just got a paperback copy and wanted to share my scans!
transcription:
In 1998, I took a comedy writing class at SVA in New York City. It was my senior year as a cartooning major and I had started to tie up all the loose ends of what credits I needed. Thal year i tried everything from surrealist literature to acting, I even gol to play the devil for my final exam… a part that made me realize I loved performing but that I had a problem being serious. Any part that I excelled at was way over the top or insanc.. so I decided I was funny. I figured I would try my hand at comedy writing. I wasn’t funny.
At least to everyone else in the class, save one person… That day the assignment was to take a classic work of literature and make a joke of it. I decided to take Mark Twain’s “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn” and write a short story exactly as Mark Twain would but add one single moment where Tom, while on a raft floating down the Mississippi River, describes the summer breeze getting him excited in a certain way. No one laughed at this… except a guy wearing an Avengers T-Shirt. Not the comic book Avengers, but the classic 60’s spy show Avengers, something I took notice of that day. Over lunch break I leaned over and broke the ice with a particularly inappropriate subject to see if this guy was legit. He was.
This began a love affair between, in my opinion, the only two people in the class that were actually funny. The next few weeks saw us pushing the envelope of what would make each other laugh. There was nothing sacred, nothing we wouldn’t try to tie a punch-line on. I had never laughed so hard in my life and we became fast friends, writing for an audience of one.
Jon and I have been friends now for 9 years. We have seen each other at various stages of our lives, through numerous relationships and turmoil, and have sat up until 6am talking about zombies and Asia Argento every single time I have come off the road. He is like a brother.
All of these stories are true, and all of them have happened to all of us …Jon and Nick are just more honest about it. We have all fallen in love, we have all had people fall out of love with us, but the stories in Heartbreak paint these moments with such authenticity it makes you remember all of the glorious self-deprecation. The blood and guts and the long drive home alone… the years spent aimlessly searching for someone.
Heartbreak is a snapshot of those years. It isn’t pretty and it isn’t glamorous… but it will make you laugh- at these guys and at yourself. At the things we do to be loved, at the depths we will sink to get someone to say those three words back to us.
And that, my friends, is funny.
-Gerard Way
Seattle 2006
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watchmen premier 2009
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07/2005 rock sound
english translation:
“mikey’s way” before hitting the road again, heading for Germany, the band members take a lunch break… The waiter asks them if they prefer sandwich bread or a “French baguette”? The Way brothers choose French bread. Once served, Mikey Way’s face falls in front of his roast beef sandwich. “It’s raw!”, the bassist wonders. (the only time of the day when he spoke…) “That’s normal, it’s eaten like that!”, his brother replies. “Oh? Okay…”
“It was unmanageable on the day of the concert. It’s too much stuff in one day. As a result, we rarely have time to enjoy the places where we stop for more than a day.” Gerard then joins the rest of the group in front of the Carrousel du Sacré-Cœur. Together, the five of them happily indulge in a photo shoot organized for an English teen magazine. The photographer is keen to take advantage of the very ‘Frenchie’ setting of the Montmartre district. Under the astonished gaze of a few tourists who wonder what is going on, the group takes their place in front of the merry-go-round. “This is the first time we’ve been asked to smile for a photo shoot!” laughs Ray Toro, guitar. A fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film, the group then recognizes a few places seen in the film Amélie Poulain. The tour continues, with a few comments on French architecture and culture. As soon as they arrive at the first comic book store, everyone forgets their fatigue and doesn’t waste a second rushing to buy the new Star Wars figurines and other comics.
A customer stares at Frank before asking him if he’s in a band: “Do you play in The Cure?” Frank bursts into laughter and answers in the negative before going to tell the others his little story. After a few purchases (Misfits figurines, etc.), it’s already time to get back on the tour bus. “We write a lot on our tour bus. We’ve practically converted the ‘lounge area’ into a studio! We’ve already written a few songs. We might even go back into the studio after the tour. It’s a bit different, but it’s a logical evolution since Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge,” says Gerard Way, who recently did some backing vocals for Every Time I Die’s new album. But the band’s current news is on the road. “We’re thinking of doing another tour in the United States in September,” Frank continues. “For the moment, nothing is certain, but it could well be that we open for a big band with whom we’ve already played…” Green Day? “We can’t say anything,” smiles Gerard. In any case, playing with Green Day has taught us a lot. Just by watching them. They can fill stadiums and keep a constant communication with the audience. Billie Joe is an incredible frontman. We are much better on stage today, partly thanks to opportunities like these. It’s amazing to go from 300 people to 10 or 20 times more. A real challenge for us and also the best learning for a young band. […] Otherwise, we really want to do splits with other bands. We were talking about a split 45 with Alkaline Trio, it will be done according to our schedules.“ Time is on your side!”
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12/2005 black velvet magazine
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“mikey way nearly joined kill hannah”
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03/2007 bravissima spanish magazine
“Hot music
By Alejandro Garita
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
Following their 2 million-selling ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’, the boys are now presenting their third album. The main character of the new album, which they recorded in 2006 with producer Rob Cavallo (Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette), is someone called ‘The Patient’, vocalist Gerard Way’s strongest memory of his childhood. It’s about the day his dad took him to a parade, hence the name of their first single, "Welcome to the Black Parade.” This material is the group’s most commercial, with a punk style similar to Green Day’s. However, in songs like “The Sharpest Lives” and “House of Wolves” they retain the dark style that characterizes them. Good!
City: New Jersey
Influences: Besides the fact that they like watching horror movies, they listen to Queen, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Cure, Iron Maiden and The Misfits.
The group’s name comes from a book written by Irvine Welsh, titled ‘Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance’.
The band was formed when Gerard Way called his high school friend Matt Pelissier in 2002 to form a new musical group.
The black parade“
fact bubbles:
✰Their first song is "Skylines and Turnstiles”, written by Gerard while living in New York and inspired by the attack on the Twin Towers.
✰Mikey Way, Gerard’s younger brother, dropped out of school to learn to play bass.
✰En 2002 editaron su CD de- but ‘I Brought you my Bullets, you Brought me your Love’.
Photos: EFE/ZumaPress and courtesy of the record labels.
✰They have been the opening act for Green Day.
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04/2007 mcrs favorite things from punk rock confidential
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09/2009 buzz magazine
