Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic-book industry.

History[link]

Newsarama began in summer 1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic-book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In these short messages. Doran shared comic-book news items he had found across the World Wide Web. As these postings became more regularly and widely read, he gave them the title "Prodigy Comic Book Newswire".

In January 1997, Doran began to post a version of the column, titled "The Comics Newswire", on Usenet's various rec.arts.comics communities. The name of the column evolved to "The Newswire" and then "CBI Newsarama" before finally becoming simply "Newsarama" in 1998.

The postings quickly became popular, as the speed of reporting on the Internet meant that Doran could break stories faster than most other comic-book news sources, which appeared in printed publications that had to be fully edited weeks before they were released. By the time other online comics journalists came on the scene, Newsarama had become an established brand. Although the column in its earliest forms reported both news and rumors, it later adopted a standard journalistic news approach.^{[citation needed]}

Doran's postings left Usenet in 1998, becoming a "Newsarama" column on such websites as Mania.com, AnotherUniverse.com and Fandom.com (all defunct as of 2007) and Comicon.com before becoming a semi-autonomous site — Newsarama, hosted by Kevin Smith's ViewAskew.com network of sites — in August 2002.

Three months later, Doran left Newsarama — by now its own website — to take a staff position at Marvel Comics. Matt Brady, a writer who had written extensively for the site, took over. Doran later returned to working at Newsarama, with Brady continuing as primary writer. The site left the ViewAskew.com network and became independent in early April 2006. It was acquired by the Imaginova corporation in October 2007. When Brady stood down in July 2009, Doran and Lucas Siegel stepped up to run the site.^[1] The site was acquired, along with Space.com and LiveScience.com, by TopTenREVIEWS in October 2009.^[2]

Newsarama has been quoted as a source of comics news by the mainstream media, including The New York Times.^[3] In 2006, Entertainment Weekly listed Newsarama as one of its "25 favorite online entertainment sites"^[4] and the American Library Association lists it as a digital resource in the field of comics.^[5] A subsequent Entertainment Weekly story also included Newsarama in its list "100 Greatest Websites".^[6]

Newsarama maintains a registered-member forum, talk@Newsarama, with over 25,000 registered users.^[7]

Columnists[link]

Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada's column "Joe Fridays" (renamed "New Joe Fridays" in 2006 as a joke regarding Marvel's penchant for relaunching titles with the prefix "new") appeared weekly until 2008, when the column moved to MySpace. Quesada then began writing the column "Cup of Joe" on Comic Book Resources. DC Comics editor Michael Siglain's contributed the weekly "5.2 About 52", and in 2007, DC executive editor Dan Didio announced^{[citation needed]} he would write a column similar to "New Joe Fridays", focusing on the series Countdown. Didio has participated in the weekly "10 Answers and 1 Question" column for the site.^{[citation needed]}

Regular columns have included "Animated Shorts" by Steve Fritz; "Write or Wrong" by Dirk Manning; "Best Shots" by reviewers from ShotgunReviews.com; "10 Answers and 1 Question with Dan Didio"; "Weekly Webbing"; "Right to Assemble", covering Marvel's Avengers, titles by Troy Brownfield; "Column . . . for JUSTICE" by Brownfield, covering Justice League titles; "Getting Animated" and "Friday Flashback" by Brownfield; ; "Dial H for History" by David Pepose, covering recaps on comic book characters and trends; and "Agent of S.T.Y.L.E." by Alan Kistler, covering the evolution of costumes and designs for different comic book characters. Newsarama also runs a series of "Post Game" columns, offering coverage and commentary of popular genre-related television programs on a regular basis; covered shows include "Lost", "Smallville", "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", "Fringe", "FlashForward", and others.^{[citation needed]}

Criticism[link]

Persistent criticism of the Newsarama has come from Rich Johnston, a rival comic-book industry columnist. Johnston has repeatedly used his columns to comment on the site^{[8][9][10][11]} and has suggested that Newsarama has an inappropriately close relationship to some of the major American comic book publishers.^[12][13]

One incident he cited involved Newsarama's coverage of a Marvel Comics publicity stunt that sought to briefly mislead comic book fans. While publicizing a new series in 2001 Marvel announced that it had uncovered a previously forgotten character, the Sentry, whose adventures the company claimed it originally published in the 1960s.^[14] The company issued a press release with this information, which quoted writers and artists and contained a false history of the character's 1960s creative origins. Though the character was in actuality a new creation with an entirely manufactured history, Newsarama (and other comic book industry news outlets, such as Wizard) reported on the story and quoted from the release without criticizing or challenging its claims.^{[citation needed]}

Johnston then criticized Newsarama and the other news outlets for publishing information they knew to be intentionally misleading.^[15]

In November 2005, Michael Dean in the The Comics Journal studied Internet comic-book industry news sources and evaluated Newsarama's journalistic performance.^[16] The study praised the site for the depth of coverage provided in some articles but criticized its reliance on press releases and the "softness" of the questions asked in its interviews. Dean focused on one story in particular, "Diamond Changes Thresholds" by Matt Brady.^[17] Though he found the piece qualified as "journalism", Dean also found it "contained factual inaccuracies, failed to get multiple points of view and sucked up to its corporate subject". The Brady story itself was eventually corrected of its factual inaccuracies by its author after Rich Johnston and others pointed out the errors.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2008 the site underwent numerous design and content-related changes,^[18] and decreased its traffic compared to the previous months.^[19]

The new format launched with multiple articles on comic books, television shows, movies and video games. These changes have been questioned by readers in the comment section of some articles^[20][21][22] Brady defended the changes.^[23]

Awards[link]

The site has been the recipient of a number of awards and award nominations, including:

• 1999 Eagle Award nomination for "Favourite Comics-Related Website (professional)"
• 2000 Eagle Award nomination for "Favourite Comics-Related Website (professional)"
• 2004 Eagle Award for "Favourite Comics E-Zine"
• 2005 Eagle Award nomination for "Favourite Comics-Related Website"
• 2006 Eagle Award for "Favourite Comics-Related Website"
• 2007 Eagle Award nomination for "Favourite Comics Related Website"
• 2008 Eisner Award for "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Newsarama
• Newsarama on Twitter
• Newsarama on Facebook
• Alexa site statistics for Newsarama.com

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Richard Hatch
Hatch at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2010
Born	Richard Lawrence Hatch (1945-05-21) May 21, 1945 (age 67) Santa Monica, California, United States
Website
http://www.richardhatch.com/

Richard Hatch (born May 21, 1945, in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, and also as Tom Zarek in the remake of Battlestar Galactica.

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Hatch began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater. In the late 1960s, he starred Off Broadway in several plays and musicals and won the Obie Award for his work in PS Your Cat is Dead in Chicago.

Television[link]

Hatch began working in television in 1970 when he starred as Philip Brent in the daytime soap opera All My Children, a role he played for two years.

Karen Lynn Gorney and Hatch in All My Children

For some years, he then made guest appearances in primetime series such as Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, and The Waltons, as well as appearing in several made-for-TV movies such as The Hatfields and The McCoys with Jack Palance, Addie and the Kings of Hearts with Jason Robards, Last of the Belles with Susan Sarandon, and Deadman's Curve in which he portrayed Jan Berry of the musical group Jan and Dean.

In 1976, Hatch gained his first major television role as Inspector Dan Robbins on the detective series The Streets of San Francisco, a replacement for Michael Douglas (who played Insp. Steve Keller) who had left the series that year. Though the role was only for one season, Hatch won Germany's Bravo Youth Magazine Award for the role.^[1] Following this, he had a recurring role on the series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, also for one season. By this time, Hatch had become something of a pin-up and regularly appeared in teen-oriented magazines such as Teen Beat, 16 Magazine, and Tiger Beat.

Hatch then gained his first starring role in Glen A. Larson's sci-fi series, Battlestar Galactica (1978), though this too proved to be for only a single season as the series was cancelled in 1979. Hatch was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the role.^[1]

Throughout the 1980s, Hatch made guest appearances on various television series such as Hotel, Murder She Wrote, The Love Boat, and Fantasy Island. In 1984, he appeared in several episodes of the prime time soap opera Dynasty, which was at the top of the ratings at the time.

In 1990, Hatch returned to daytime soap operas and appeared on Santa Barbara originating the character Steven Slade. He continued to make guest appearances on prime time series such as Jake and the Fatman and Baywatch, but roles were becoming few and far between.

Hatch's next prominent role would be as Tom Zarek in the reimagined version of Battlestar Galactica, in which he made semi-regular appearances from 2004 to 2009.

Films[link]

Hatch has made several low-key theatrical film releases, including Best Friends (1975), Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981), and Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983). An abridged version of the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica was also released in cinemas, initially overseas and then for a limited run in the U.S., as was a sequel film, Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack, which was also made from episodes of the series.

Battlestar Galactica revival attempt[link]

For many years, Hatch attempted to revive Battlestar Galactica. In the 1990s, he began writing novels based on the series, and also wrote, co-directed and executive-produced a trailer called The Second Coming in the hopes of enticing Universal Studios (the rights holders for the franchise) into producing a new series that would have been a direct continuation of the original 1978 series (ignoring the events of the failed spin-off Galactica 1980 in which Hatch did not appear). Original actors John Colicos (Baltar), Terry Carter (Col. Tigh) and Jack Stauffer (Bojay) appeared in the trailer along with Hatch himself. Hatch also believed that he could persuade Dirk Benedict to return and play Starbuck.

Although the trailer won acclaim at science-fiction conventions, Universal was not interested in Hatch's vision to revive Battlestar Galactica, and instead opted for a remake rather than the sequel for which Hatch had campaigned. Initially, Hatch (who claimed to have remortgaged his house to make the trailer) was bitterly disappointed by this turn of events and was highly critical of the prospective new series on his web site.

Hatch at Gatecon 2005

In 2004, he stated to Sci-Fi Pulse that he had felt resentment over the failure of his planned Galactica continuation and was left "exhausted and sick... I had, over the past several years, bonded deeply with the original characters and story... writing the novels and the comic books and really campaigning to bring back the show".

Battlestar Galactica re-imagining[link]

Despite his resentment, Hatch developed a respect for Ronald D. Moore, the new series' writer and producer, when he appeared as a featured guest at Galacticon (the Battlestar Galactica 25th anniversary convention, hosted by Hatch) and answered questions posed by a very hostile audience. [1]. Later, in 2004, Hatch was offered and accepted a recurring role in the new Battlestar Galactica series. He played Tom Zarek, a terrorist turned politician, who spent twenty years in prison for blowing up a government building; Hatch has said the character was presented to him as a Nelson Mandela figure, and that he views Zarek as challenging the status quo and working for the common man. Hatch/Zarek spends most of his first episode in heated debate with Captain Apollo (played by Jamie Bamber), the role that Hatch had played in the original series. He has appeared in several further episodes of the series as a guest star until 2009. After accepting the Zarek role, Hatch stated "it was a very deep and profound struggle for me to let go and realize that I was not the creator of the series and it didn’t belong to me... I’ve finally come to terms with and accepted that."

Other work[link]

Alongside his attempts to revive the original Battlestar Galactica, Hatch created his own space opera entitled The Great War of Magellan. He has written a comic book series and a role-playing game in support of this, and is presently working a novel trilogy with Brad Linaweaver (who co-authored many of Hatch's Battlestar Galactica novels).

Most recently, Hatch has been working on a new reality TV series called Who the Frak?, which he created and appears in as himself. The series is touted as "the world's first social network reality drama".

Hatch can also be heard in numerous television commercials and other voice-overs.

Personal life[link]

When not acting, Hatch lectures and conducts workshops on acting, self-expression, and communication throughout the world although his website doesn't seem to have been updated since 2006. He appears annually at the San Diego Comic Con International to sign autographs and host a panel to discuss his career and his upcoming projects.

Battlestar Galactica bibliography[link]

1. Armageddon (August 1, 1997)
2. Warhawk (September 1, 1998)
3. Resurrection (July 1, 2001)
4. Rebellion (July 1, 2002)
5. Paradis (July 1, 2003)
6. Destiny (June 29, 2004)
7. Redemption (November 25, 2005)

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Richard Hatch

• Official website
• Richard Hatch at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Hatch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Richard Hatch at TV Guide
• Sci-Fi Pulse interview from 2004
• Richard Hatch's Great War of Magellan
• Who the Frak is the Real Richard Hatch?

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Douglas "Doug" Mahnke (pronounced MAN-key) is an American comic book artist and penciller.

Biography[link]

Mahnke's first prominent work was for The Mask, and he has since worked for DC Comics on JLA, Batman with writer Judd Winick, and Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein with Grant Morrison. Mahnke's work on Batman included the controversial story detailing how the previously deceased second Robin, Jason Todd, was alive and actively working against Batman's interests as the Red Hood.^[1] Mahnke also worked on the critically acclaimed prestige one-shot Batman: The Man Who Laughs with writer Ed Brubaker.

His work also includes titles such as Major Bummer, Superman: The Man of Steel, Team Zero and Justice League Elite. He was the original artist for the Dark Horse Comics title X, a run inked by Jimmy Palmiotti, as well as being the cover artist for King Tiger/Motorhead, a two-issue series set in the same universe as X. In 2005, with comic book inker Tom Nguyen, Mahnke produced two comic book art instructional DVDs. In 2006, he took over the art for Stormwatch P.H.D. for Wildstorm Comics. His work in 2007 included the DC mini, Black Adam: The Dark Age written by Peter Tomasi, detailing Black Adam's mourning over his wife Isis and regaining his powers. In 2008, he reunited with Tomasi to pencil an issue of Nightwing for the writer.

Mahnke was an important collaborator with writer Grant Morrison on DC's event series Final Crisis, pencilling the Requiem one-shot and the two-issue Superman Beyond 3D tie-in. Mahnke also pencilled the final pages of the main series' 6th issue featuring the "death" of Batman, and replaced artist J. G. Jones entirely on the series finale issue #7 over concerns of Jones' speed.^[2]

Starting in July 2009, Mahnke became the ongoing artist for DC's Green Lantern with writer Geoff Johns, right at the beginning of the Blackest Night storyline.^[3][4]

Bibliography[link]

Comics work (interior pencil art) includes:

Dark Horse[link]

• Aliens: Stronghold, miniseries, #1-4 (1994)
• Dark Horse Presents #25-29 (1988–89)
• The Mask #1-4 (1991)
• The Mask Returns #1-4 (1992–93)
• The Mask Strikes Back #1-5 (1995)
• Mayhem (The Mask): #1-4 (1989)
• Walter: Campaign of Terror #1-4 (1994)
• X #1-5, 9 (1994)

DC[link]

• Action Comics #775 ("What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?," story, along with Lee Bermejo) (2001)
• Batman #635-639, 641, 645, 647-648 (2005–06)
• Batman: The Man Who Laughs, graphic novel, #1 (2005)
• Black Adam: The Dark Age, miniseries, #1-6 (2007–08)
• Countdown to Final Crisis #3, 8 (2008)
• Final Crisis #6 (along with J. G. Jones and Carlos Pacheco), #7 (full art) (2009)
• Final Crisis: Requiem #1 (2008)
• Final Crisis: Superman Beyond, miniseries, #1-2 (2008–09)
• Green Lantern, vol. 4, #43-48, 50-62, 64-67 (2009–11)
• Green Lantern, vol. 5, #1-5 (2011–12)
• JLA #61-68, 70, 72, 74-75, 78-79, 84-90, 100; Secret Files 2004 (2002–04)
• JLA/Cyberforce (2005)
• Justice League Elite #1-12 (2004–05)
• Nightwing #151 (2009)
• DC Comics Presents: Flash (one-shot, DC Comics, 2004)
• Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein, miniseries, #1-4 (2006)
• Gen¹³ #38 (1999)
• Hitman/Lobo: That Stupid Bastich! (2000)
• Justice League Elite #1-12 (2004–05)
• Lobo/Mask, miniseries, #1-2 (1997)
• Major Bummer #1-15 (1997–98)
• Martian Manhunter #24 (2000)
• Masks: Too Hot for TV! (2004)
• Nightwing #151 (along with Shawn Moll) (2009)
• Superman: Lex 2000 (5-pages only) (2001)
• Stormwatch P.H.D. #1-4, 6-7 (2007)
• Superman and Batman: World's Funnest (among other artists) (2000)
• Superman: The Man of Steel #87-89, 91, 93, 95-98, 100, 102-105, 107-108, 110-111, 114-118 (1999–2001)
• Team Zero, miniseries, #1-6 (2006)
• World's Finest: Our Worlds at War (5-pages only) (2001)
• Worldstorm #1 (2006)

Other publishers[link]

• Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #26 (Marvel, 1994)

Covers only[link]

• Dark Horse Presents #49, 64, 134 (Dark Horse, 1991–1998)
• Dr. Giggles #1-2 (Dark Horse, 1992)
• Comics' Greatest World: Arcadia #4 (Dark Horse, 1993)
• Comics' Greatest World: Vortex #1 (Dark Horse, 1993)
• Out of the Vortex #1 (Dark Horse, 1993)
• Barb Wire: Ace of Spades #3-4 (Dark Horse, 1996)
• King Tiger & Motorhead #1-2 (Dark Horse, 1996)
• Randy Bowen's Decapitator #1 (Dark Horse, 1998)
• The Mask: Toys in the Attic #1-4 (Dark Horse, 1998)
• Superman: The Man of Steel #99, 101 (DC Comics, 2000)
• Batman #573 (DC Comics, 2000)
• Superman #158 (DC Comics, 2000)
• Adventures of Superman #580, 629 (DC Comics, 2000–2004)
• Action Comics #573 (DC Comics, 2000)
• JLA #69, 71, 73, 76, 80-83, 90-93 (DC Comics, 2002–2004)
• Outsiders #18-19, 21-23 (DC Comics, 2005)
• Stormwatch P.H.D. #5 (Wildstorm, 2007)
• Number of the Beast #1 (Wildstorm, 2008)
• Nightwing #144 (DC Comics, 2008)
• JLA: Classified #39 (DC Comics, 2008)
• Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #3 (DC Comics, 2009)
• Blackest Night #8 (DC Comics, 2009)
• inFamous #1-2 (DC Comics, 2011)
• Flashpoint: Frankenstein & The Creatures of the Unknown #1-3 (DC Comics, 2011)
• Green Lantern Corps v2 #1 (DC Comics, 2011)
• DC Universe Online: Legends #16-17 (DC Comics, 2011–2012)
• Green Lantern v5 #6 (DC Comics, 2012)

Notes[link]

References[link]

Gerard Way
Gerard Way in 2012.
Background information
Birth name	Gerard Arthur Way
Born	(1977-04-09) April 9, 1977 (age 35) Summit, New Jersey, United States
Origin	Belleville, New Jersey
Genres	Alternative rock, post-hardcore
Occupations	Musician, comic book writer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2001–present
Labels	Reprise, Warner Bros., Eyeball
Associated acts	My Chemical Romance

Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American musician and comic book writer who has served as lead vocalist and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance since its formation in 2001. He is also the writer of the Eisner Award-winning comic book The Umbrella Academy.

Early life[link]

Gerard Way was born April 9, 1977 in Summit, New Jersey^[1] to Donna Lee (née Rush) and Donald Way. He has Italian ancestry on his mother's side and Scottish ancestry on his father's. He was raised in Belleville, New Jersey and first began singing publicly in the fourth grade, when he played the role of Peter Pan in a school musical production. His maternal grandmother, Elena Lee Rush, was a great creative influence who taught him to sing, paint, and perform from a young age; he has said that "she has taught me everything I know".^[2] Also, while in elementary school, the glam metal band Bon Jovi was instrumental in forming his love of music.^[3]

At the age of 15, Way was held at gunpoint, as he said in an April 2008 Rolling Stone interview: "I got held up with a .357 Magnum, had a gun pointed to my head and put on the floor, execution-style." He went on to say that "no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith."^[4] At age 16, Way appeared on an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael which discussed the controversy surrounding the publicizing of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's crimes in comic books[1].

Way attended Belleville High School until he graduated in 1995. Deciding to pursue a career in the comic-book industry,^[5] he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1999.^[2][6]

Career[link]

Music[link]

As teenagers Gerard and his brother Mikey Way, who later became the bassist of My Chemical Romance, were influenced by the bands Iron Maiden and The Misfits as well as British artists such as Pulp, Blur and Morrissey and The Smiths. Way originally wanted to be a guitarist. His grandmother bought him his first guitar at the age of eight and he played in short-lived bands such as Ray Gun Jones and Nancy Drew with future bandmate Ray Toro, but when he was not successful (one band kicking him out due to his lack of skill with the guitar), he chose to concentrate on his art career.^[7]

Way was working as an intern for Cartoon Network in New York City during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Seeing the effects of the attacks first-hand prompted Way to change his views on life in the following weeks. He told Spin magazine, "I literally said to myself, 'Fuck art. I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference.'"^[8] To help deal with the emotional effects the attacks had on him, Way wrote the lyrics to the song "Skylines and Turnstiles", which has since been identified as the first song by My Chemical Romance.^[9] Soon after, My Chemical Romance began to assemble as a band.

Way has contributed vocally to bands such as Every Time I Die's 'Kill The Music', Head Automatica's 'Graduation Day', Say Anything's "In Defense Of The Genre", and The Oval Portrait's "From My Cold Dead Hands" and "Barnabus Collins Has More Skeletons In His Closet Than Vincent Price".

In many interviews Way has stated that music turned out to be an effective outlet to deal with his longtime battles against depression, alcoholism and prescription drug use. The use of music as a way to resolve personal battles has caused Way to create deeply personal songs such as "Helena,"^[10] which was written in memory of his late grandmother.

In 2008, Way and musical project Julien-K remixed a version of the song Sleep When I'm Dead by The Cure for their EP 'Hypnagogic States'. All profits gained from the sales of the EP go to funding the International Red Cross.

In early 2009, Way and Japanese singer Kyosuke Himuro co-produced the new theme song for Advent Children Complete, the Blu-Ray director's cut of the movie sequel to the popular video game franchise, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. He is also credited with writing the lyrics, and singing alongside Himuro. The song is entitled "Safe and Sound" and was released on iTunes on April 29, 2009.^[11] "Safe and Sound" is only heard on the Japanese release of the film; the English release uses Himuro's "Calling" (the original ending theme for Advent Children) in place of it. He also is contributing vocals for the vocal mix of the deadmau5 song "Professional Griefers".

Writing[link]

Gerard Way's first attempt at writing a comic was at the age of 16, writing a short-lived comic series called 'On Raven's Wings', which was cancelled after Issue 2 due to losing the art team; he was credited as Garry Way.^[12]

In 2007, Way began writing the comic-book miniseries The Umbrella Academy. Way wrote the story and illustrated the original version, but cartoonist Gabriel Ba recreated all of Way's original drawings in the final version. A few of Way's first drawings of the characters can be seen in the last few pages of the first book in the series, "The Apocalypse Suite".

The Apocalypse Suite was first released by Dark Horse Comics in their Free Comic Book Day issue on May 5, 2007.^[13] Since then, an eight-page story has been published on MySpace, entitled "Safe & Sound".^[14] The first official issue was released on September 19, 2007.^[15] The first issue to sell out and consequently there was a second printing released on October 17, 2007.^[16] The next installment was released on November 26, 2008.^[17]

He and fellow artists Shaun Simon and Becky Cloonan are currently in the process of developing and creating a new comic-book series titled "The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys", which Way announced at Comic Con 2009. In 2011 My Chemical Romance confirmed the comic's connection with their music, and they also stated that Mikey and Gerard are working on another comic book project which they have kept under wraps as of mid-2011.

Cartoons[link]

In 2001 Way co-created a cartoon with Joe Boyle called The Breakfast Monkey. They pitched it to Cartoon Network, but the network declined to pick up the concept on the grounds that it was too similar to the existing property Aqua Teen Hunger Force.^[18]

Personal life[link]

Way has struggled with alcoholism and prescription drug addiction for many years and has now been sober since August 2004.^[19] In a recent issue of Spin magazine, he said that, having become a happier person and feeling more in control, he has been able to enjoy the occasional recreational drink.

On September 3, 2007 after a concert in Colorado, Way married LynZ of Mindless Self Indulgence backstage on the final date of the Projekt Revolution tour. A member of Live Nation's touring staff that was also an ordained minister performed the low-key ceremony.^[20] He currently lives with his wife in Los Angeles, California.^[21] Their daughter, Bandit Lee Way, was born in California on May 27, 2009.^[22]

Discography[link]

My Chemical Romance[link]

References[link]

Notes[link]

1. ^ "Teen Titans" — Rolling Stone (2005-07-14)

Alternative music portal

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gerard Way

• My Chemical Romance Official Website
• Gerard Way at the Internet Movie Database
• Gerard Way on Twitter

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Becky Cloonan
Cloonan at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	Channel Zero: Jennie One Demo Flight nebuli East Coast Rising American Virgin Pixu: The Mark of Evil
Awards	Eisner Award Best Antology (2008) Nominations Best Single Issue (2005) Best Limited Series (2005) Best New Series (2007)
Official website

Becky Cloonan is an American comic book creator, known for work published by Tokyopop and Vertigo.

Career[link]

Cloonan created minicomics and was part of the Meathaus collective before collaborating with Brian Wood on Channel Zero: Jennie One in 2003. Since then, her profile (and workload) has steadily risen; her best-known work to date has been the twelve-issue comics series Demo (2004), also with Wood. Wizard named Demo its 2004 "Indie of the Year." The series was also nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2005, for Best Limited Series and Best Single Issue (for #7, "One Shot, Don't Miss").^[1]

Cloonan's first solo graphic novel, East Coast Rising Volume 1, was released by Tokyopop in 2006. East Coast Rising: Volume 1 marked Cloonan's third Eisner Award nomination in 2007, this time for Best New Series. She also collaborated with writer Steven T. Seagle on the Vertigo Comics series American Virgin, which was cancelled with the 23rd issue.^[2] She is also doing art for the six part upcoming series "True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" being co-written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon.^[3]

She has also created artwork for the band Leftover Crack and hip-hop group CunninLynguists.^[4][5]

Bibliography[link]

Self-published work[link]

Titles published by Cloonan and her fellow writers/artists include:

• Meathaus #6-8 (w/a, Meathaus Press, 2002–2006)
• nebuli (w/a, with Vasilis Lolos, 2006)
• 5 (w/a, with Rafael Grampá, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon and Vasilis Lolos, 2007)
• MINIS (w/a, collection of original mini-comics, 2007)
• Bury Your Treasure (w/a, collection of illustrations, 2008)
• Pixu: the Mark of Evil #1-2 (w/a, with Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon and Vasilis Lolos, 2008)
• Wolves (w/a, 2011)

Dark Horse Comics[link]

Titles published by Dark Horse include:

• 9-11 Volume 1: "Untitled" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 196 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-881-0)
• MySpace Dark Horse Presents #16: "I See the Devil in My Sleep" (w/a, 2008) collected in MySpace DHP Volume 3 (tpb, 168 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-327-1)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Vampires: "The Thrill" (w, with Vasilis Lolos, one-shot, 2009) collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales (hc, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-59582-644-0)
• The Guild: Zaboo: "Zaboo's Escape" (a, with Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, one-shot, 2011)
• Conan the Barbarian #1-ongoing (a, with Brian Wood, 2012–...)

Image Comics[link]

Titles published by Image include:

• Flight Volume 2: "Heads Up" (w/a, with Vasilis Lolos, anthology graphic novel, 432 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-58240-477-1)
• NYC Mech: beta LOVE #4 (cover only, 2005)
• 24Seven Volume 1: "In for a Pound" (a, with John G and Leland Purvis, anthology graphic novel, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
• The Pirates of Coney Island #1-6 (covers only, 2006–2007)
• Hack/Slash #10 (cover only, 2011)
• Thought Bubble Anthology (cover only, one-shot, 2011)
• Pigs #4 (cover only, 2011)

Vertigo[link]

Titles published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint include:

• American Virgin (a, with Steven T. Seagle, 2006–2008) collected as:
  • Head (collects #1-4, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1065-1)
  • Going Down (collects #5-9, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1301-4)
  • Wet (collects #10-14, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1494-0)
  • Around the World (includes #15-17 and 20-23, tpb, 224 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1831-8)
• Demo Volume II #1-6 (a, with Brian Wood, 2010) collected as Demo Volume II (tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2995-6)
• Northlanders #35-36: "The Girl in the Ice" (a, with Brian Wood, 2011) collected in Northlanders: Metal (tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3160-8)

Marvel Comics[link]

Titles published by Marvel include:

• Strange Tales II #3: "Here Comes the King Crab!" (w/a, 2010) collected in ST2 (hc, 144 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4822-1; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4823-X)
• Nation X #2: "Cajun Justice!" (w/a, 2010) collected in Nation X (hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0)
• Osborn #5 (a, with Kelly Sue Deconnick and Emma Rios, Marvel, 2011) collected in Osborn: Evil Incarcerated (tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5175-3)
• Victor Von Doom #1-4 (a, with Nick Spencer, Marvel, 2011–2012)^[6][7]

Other publishers[link]

Titles published by various publishers around the world include:

• Revolving Hammer: "Aunty" (a, with Walter Conley, anthology, Cyberosia Publishing, 2002)
• Altered Realities: "Inversion" (a, with Sal Cipriano and Lou Platania, anthology, Cactus Fusion, 2003)
• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Channel Zero: Jennie One (a, with Brian Wood, graphic novel, tpb, 72 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-932051-07-4)
  • Demo #1-12 (a, with Brian Wood, 2003–2004) collected as Demo (tpb, 328 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-932051-42-2)
• Vampirella Comics Magazine #4: "What Have We Become" (w/a, Harris, 2004)
• Hopeless Savages: B-Sides − The Origin of the Dusted Bunnies (a, with Jen Van Meter, Vera Brosgol and Mike Norton, one-shot, Oni Press, 2005)
• Flight Volume 3: "Conquest" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 352 pages, Ballantine Books, 2006, ISBN 0-345-49039-8)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Graphic Novel (a, with Gary Reed, graphic novel, 176 pages, Puffin Books, 2006, ISBN 0-14-240572-8)
• East Coast Rising (w/a, graphic novel, 196 pages, Tokyopop, 2006, ISBN 1-59816-468-6)

See also[link]

Novels portal

• This Just In... Benefit for Indy Media

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Becky Cloonan at the Grand Comics Database

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Becky Cloonan

• Official website
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• Becky Cloonan at the Comic Book DB
• Becky Cloonan at DeviantArt
• Becky Cloonan on Myspace
• Becky Cloonan's poster design work