Don’t be afraid it’s only me, Drawn by My Chemical Romance…
The newly-published
“We sat pomp-rock chart-toppers My Chemical Romance down in the midst of their whirlwind UK invasion and asked them to draw us some pictures. Here, expert cartoon psychologist Dr Ralph Harris tells us what their doodles say about them.”
Lead singer, Gerard Way, came up with the Bowie sketch, and here’s a little of what NME’s ‘expert’ had to say about his work:
“This lad can draw. In fact I’d go as far as to suggest that this may be the very chap who created The Umbrella Academy for Dark Horse Comics. Here he’s chosen to portray David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase, which clearly shows that he’s more comfortable hiding behind a character.”
So there you have (a bit of) it. Young Gerard is a talented lad who has proved he still has a career to fall back on when the record buying public get their ears back.
To continue the Bowie theme, it seems most of the band supplied their doodles on headed hotel paper…and the hotel? It was the swanky