My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way's FIRST Published Comic
By: Jeaux Janovsky
25 February 2008
"Gerard Way, Creator of Dark Horse’s The Umbrella Academy and Lead Singer of the band My Chemical Romance has appeared on a lot of talk shows. One eagle eyed fan of MCR, noticed one of his first appearances on Sally Jesse Raphael in the studio audience supporting Boneyard Press Publisher Hart D. Fisher. 
Why was 16 year old Gerard Way there? Who is Hart D. Fisher? What the hell is Boneyard Press?
Hart D. Fisher is the Renegade Publisher of Boneyard Press: an in your face, no apologies, hardcore, adult oriented Comic Book company straight out of Champaign, Illinois. With taglines “Too Tough for Color” and “Marvel Can Suck My C*ck” to comic titles like “Jeffrey Dahmer VS Jesus Christ”, “Rectum Errectum”, “Rush Limbaugh Must Die”, & “Kill Marvel” It’s no wonder Hart was known as “The Most Dangerous Man” in the comics Industry, and was voted two years in a row as one of Hero Illustrated Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in that industry.
Gerard Way, (or Garry Way as he was known back then), was just another pudgy, talented, 16 year old trying to make his way through high school and used comic books as his outlet to express himself and survive.
Hart took a chance on young Garry, and gave him a crack at creating and writing his first published work, On Raven’s Wings.
But wait? Isn’t Umbrella Academy being touted as Gerard Way’s first published work?
Hmmm. I’ve read a couple interviews saying so.
I smell something fishy.
Remember, you read the story here first. Before Hart goes to Rolling Stone, TMZ, LA Weekly, Spin, & MTV with his story. It’s going to get dirty."
You can read Hart Fisher’s thoughts as well as an open letter to Gerard Way on his War Journal.
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bonedaddy777"So did a big company like Dark Horse knowingly commit fraud on the public in their advertisements touting these books by Gerard as his first foray into comics, or were they unknowing dupes. How many kids bought this comic book, The Umbrella Academy, because it was the FIRST. [...]
I'm fed up with this bullshit, and I'm coming clean with it very, very publicly this week. I have video proof that anyone else could find... You know, the kid I knew as Garry was a smart, sensitive teenager who was overly concerned about what other people thought of him. He worried way too much about his appearance and his image. I do not know why he is lying.[...]
The part I'm most sick of... I'm not going to let my fans, my readers, nor the people that worked so hard on these books be cheated out of their due... I'm not going to let any motherfucker call my guys a pack of liars, not an anonymous stranger and not some rock star who forgot who his first fans were. A fucking rock star who forgot just who was in his corner and encouraging him when NO ONE else was, when he was just another fat kid with a bowl haircut who got pushed around at school, who was building you up then Garry? Who went on the record and pumped you up in print for the world to see? Who was that guy on the other end of that phone when you needed him?
Why'd you do me like that Garry?
Why'd you do the Boneyard Crew who fought for you?
Tell your fans why you lied to them."
There's plenty more where that came from, if you're feeling in a reading mood...
"I even had conversations with his mother about young Garry, but if you read my old Boneyard Press comics, especially the editorials, you will see that Garry has been ripping off my old message and many of my actual written bits. I'm in the process now of going through the lyrics and matching up where he has straight up ripped me off from my old Boneyard editorials and my poetry from Poems for the Dead and Still Dead."
ETA...
DARKHORSE AND GERARD WAY MAKE A STATEMENT!!!!!
:"I sent [Hart] an email years ago, before we finished ‘Revenge,’ (MCR's 2nd album) thanking him for believing in me, and never got a response. I think I emailed him once again as well…never heard anything back. I’m not ashamed of what I did for him, and wanted to see him in person and thank him. I’ve never had the chance.
Way is currently on tour with My Chemical Romance in South America, and may be difficult to reach for further comment."
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