Fresh out of New York Comic Con came the news that musician The Weeknd and Marvel Comics would be teaming up for an upcoming series, titled Starboy. Named after the musician’s multi-platinum 2016 album (and hit single), it also ushers The Weeknd into the ranks of musicians who have crossed over into the world of comics that includes Gerard Way, Gene Simmons and Darryl McDaniels.

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Just how many musicians have crossed over into the world of comics, you ask? Short answer: it’s a lot (and that’s not even including the various comics inspired by bands or music, like the countless KISS comics, the genre biography Hip Hop Family Tree or that time Eminem teamed up with the Punisher). Long answer: Sit back and put on your favourite record or playlist because this may take awhile.

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)

Gerard Way is the name most people think of when they hear the phrase “musician turned comic writer.” Before forming My Chemical Romance, Way was a one-time intern at DC Comics and published his first series called On Raven’s Wing in 1993 (It was cancelled after two issues and he was credited as Garry Way). Over the last decade Way has cemented himself as one of the freshest voices in the industry, writing the dysfunctional superhero series Umbrella Academy (drawn by Gabriel Ba), the MCR tie-in The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (drawn by Becky Cloonan), and an alternate reality Spider-Man one-shot in Edge of Spider-Verse #5. Most recently he’s been involved in curating DC Comic’s Young Animal line, writing Doom Patrol and co-writing Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye.

Max Bemis (Say Anything)

When he isn’t fronting pop-punk band Say Anything, Max Bemis spends his time writing comics. He’s worked on creator owned series, including bipolar superhero story, Polarity; the political commentary Evil Empire; and the nineties Image Comics homage, Oh, Killstrike.

Bemis has also written for Marvel, including a Spider-Man and Magneto short in A+X #14 along with the mini-series X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever, which was about a mutant who has the ability to blow himself up, but not the ability to put himself back together afterwards. He most recently wrote a Foolkiller mini-series, is currently writing a series based on the retro videogame Centipede and is set to write the upcoming Marvel Legacy relaunch of Moon Knight.

Jeffrey Lewis

Hailing from New York City, Jeffrey Lewis is half musician, half cartoonist. He illustrates the covers to his albums and his self-published, one-man anthology series Fuff (originally named Guff) has been going since 2004, which collects autobiographical stories, stories his dad told him, and the odd piece of fiction. He's also provided a segment for Harvey Pekar's The Beats: A Graphic History and a short comic press kit for the Mountain Goats’ album Heretic Pride.

Tom DeLonge is a man of many talents and interest. He’s a punk rocker, extraterrestrial and paranormal activity enthusiast, spaceship crowdfunder, and a one-time comic-book writer. Published in 2015, Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker was a three-issue series that was part of a cross-multimedia story which tied together with an eponymous animated short and Angels & Airwaves’ 2014 album, The Dream Walker. It focuses on brothers Jonas and Alan Anderson who discover a secret universe that can only be reached through their dreams.

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Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour)

Outside of heavy metal music, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor is an accomplished writer. He’s authored an ongoing series of non-fiction books (Seven Deadly Sins, America 51, You’re Making Me Hate You) along with the comic mini-series House of Gold & Bones, which was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2013. With art by Richard Clark, the comic was designed to tie in to and expand the story of Stone Sour’s concept album duology of the same name, it focuses on a character known only as the Human as he makes his way to the House of Gold and Bones while trapped in an alternate reality and hunted by a crazed mob.

As an additional fun fact, Taylor also appeared in the film adaptation of Chris Burnham and Joe Casey’s comic Officer Downe.

Gene Simmons (KISS)

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Under Simmons’ fierce Demon make-up beats the heart of comic nerd. The wings worn by Marvel’s Black Bolt inspired the bat-wings of his stage costume. Simmons and the rest of KISS famously added some of their blood to the red ink of 1977’s A Marvel Comics Super Special!: Kiss #1. In 2007, Gene Simmons House of Horrors, a Tales From The Crypt-esque horror anthology, was published through Simmons’ own IDW imprint, Simmons Comics Group. Simmons wrote the intros and outros for the series’ four-issue run. He also wrote a story in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #10, “Bart Simmons: God of Thunder!”, where it was revealed that the KISS bassist was actually Bart’s biological father. Sure, why not?

Rob Zombie (White Zombie)

If you’re a fan of the blood-soaked, exploitation throwback, horror love letters that are Rob Zombie’s music and films, you’ll be delighted to know that he’s also written his fair share of comics! The Nail (co-written with horror writer Steve Niles) which follows a semi-pro wrestler taking revenge on a gang of Satanic bikers; Whatever Happened to Baron von Shock, which follows the rise and fall of the titular television star; the horror anthology Rob Zombie's Spookshow International; and The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto, which was later adapted into an animated film. He also wrote a parody of his film House of 1000 Corpses, “House of a Thousand Donuts", in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #10.

Alice Cooper

The Godfather of Shock Rock himself, Alice Cooper, also provided a story in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #10 alongside the aforementioned Simmons and Zombie. Titled “The Legend of Batterface” and narrated by Cooper, the short told the story of how Homer became a donut obsessed serial killer named Batterface. Cooper also collaborated with Marvel comics to adapt his 1978 album, From The Inside, in Marvel Premiere #50. Cooper’s album The Last Temptation was also adapted by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Michael Zulli as a three-issue mini-series in 1994.

Glenn Danzig (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig)

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Danzig’s status as an avid comic-book fan is pretty well documented (if you visit his abandoned house, you might stumble across a few left-behind issues). The skull logo for his band Samhain comes from Michael Golden’s cover of Crystar #8. In 1994 the punk rock legend founded his very own adult-oriented comic company, Verotik, whose name is a combination of the words “violent” and “erotic.” With a name like that, you can kind of guess the type of comics it published. The imprint line was a poor man's Heavy Metal with titles like Satanika, Death Dealer, Jaguar God and Grub Girl.

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Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Prophets of Rage)

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In 2011, Tom Morello took a quick break from being an actual guitar god and tried his tried his hand at comic writing. The result: a 12-issue series, Orchid. Channelling his political and social activism, with art by Scott Hepburn, Orchid takes place in a dystopian future and tells the story of, “a teenage prostitute who learns that she is more than the role society has imposed upon her.” Morello even created a soundtrack for the series that you can listen to while reading it.

 Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go's)

Written by Wiedlin with art by Bill Morrison, Lady Robotika was a biography of The Go-Go's guitarist’s life, with a sci-fi twist. In the beginning of the two-issue series, Wiedlin is kidnapped by aliens and forced to become a musical slave for an overlord who is obsessed with Earth's pop culture. Her abductors transform her into a cyborg through high-tech nanobots, but Wiedlin learns to control these new powers and becomes Lady Robotika, an intergalactic superhero rockstar.

Claudio Sanchez (Coheed & Cambria)

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Why is Claudio Sanchez’s hair so big? Because it’s full of ideas! The prog-rock musician has also authored a comic series called The Armory Wars (originally titled The Bag.On.Line Adventures). This science-fiction epic is the basis of the ongoing story told through Coheed & Cambria’s discography, with each volume of the comic detailing the story of a different album.

Sanchez has also written a non-Armory Wars series, Translucid, (co-written with his wife Chondra Echert and drawn by Daniel Bayliss), that follows the rivalry of the superhero known as The Navigator and his archenemy The Horse.

Dustin Bates (Starset)

There’s something about “sci-fi concept album” and “comic-book tie-in” that seem to go hand in hand. Bates has teamed with veteran comic writer Peter David and artist Mirko Colak to create The Prox Transmission, a graphic novel that expands on the story of The Starset Society. Originating in the band’s albums Transmissions and Vessels, The Starset Society are an organisation that seeks to expose a scientific discovery that has been hidden by the powers that be: that in 2047 an incredible source of power will be discovered and if used wrongly will result in the end of humanity.

Courtney Love (Hole)

Based on story ideas by Love and character designs by Ai Yazawa (the mangaka behind Paradise Kiss and Nana), Princess Ai and it’s sequel Princess Ai: The Prism of Midnight were written by D.J. Milky (a pseudonym for Tokyopop founder Stu Levy) and illustrated by Misaho Kujiradou. Taking inspiration from Love’s life, Ai was a princess from the magical kingdom of Ai-Land. Escaping from a raging revolutionary war she escapes to modern-day Tokyo, losing her memories in the process while hunted by talent agents and assassins. The third volume of The Prism of Midnight Dawn was set to be released in 2011, but remains unreleased.

Darryl McDaniels (RUN-D.M.C.)

Darryl McDaniels’ love for comic-books goes way back. It even plays a key role in his origin story of becoming one-half of hip-hop royalty RUN-D.M.C: he sold his comic collection so he could buy turntables. In 2014 he ventured into comics with his own publishing company, Darryl Makes Comics. So far the imprint has only produced one series, DMC, which is set in alternate 1985 where McDaniels becomes a street-level vigilante instead of a rapper (His super-suit is tougher than leather, of course). McDaniels also co-wrote a fun back-up story in Guardians of Infinity #3 that has Groot teaming up with The Thing while in New York City.

Zak Sally (Low)

Ex-bassist of indie outfit Low, Sally is an accomplished cartoonist and artis. His short story anthology Recidivist was nominated for an Eisner in 2006. Sally has also created a surreal satire of Disney called Sammy the Mouse, and is currently working on a comic biography of author Philip K. Dick. He even provided cover art for his former band's 2005 album The Great Destroyer. He currently operates his own independent press, La Mano, and is a comics art professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

MF Grimm Sentences

Rapper MF Grimm has lived an interesting life, to say the least. As a child he had a recurring role on Sesame Street, growing up to establish himself as a formidable name in the hip-hop scene and ghost-writing for other rappers (rumour has it that he wrote lyrics for Dr. Dre's The Chronic). In 1994, Grimm was shot seven times by rival drug dealers and left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. All of this and more were documented in his 2007 autobiographical graphic novel, Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, illustrated by Ronald Wimberly. Sentences managed to score a nomination (but no wins) for Best Reality-Based Work and Best Lettering at the 2008 Eisner Awards.

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Daniel Johnston

Lo-fi underground musician and artist Daniel Johnston is a lifelong comic fan. He’s especially fond of Captain America who has appeared in a couple of his artworks and a t-shirt collaboration with skate brand Supreme. In 2012 BOOM! Studios published Johnston’s first comic, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness. The series follows a group of sci-fi ducks that fight Satan, tying into his album of the same name and captures the unique lo-fi charm of Johnston’s music.

will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas)

We don’t think anyone foresaw rapper and entrepreneur will.i.am creating his own graphic novel, Black Eyed Peas Present: Masters of the Sun: The Zombie Chronicles (say that 10 times fast). Co-written by Benjamin Jackendoff and drawn by Damion Scott, Masters of the Sun is set in a futuristic Los Angeles that is “under attack from an ancient alien god sent to Earth to turn its inhabitants into zombies." It’s up to Zulu-X and his crew to fight back against the undead hordes and stop this ancient evil once and for all.

KRS-One

Over 20 years before Marvel released their hip-hop variant covers, the publisher and genre first collided with 1994’s Break The Chain, written by one of rap’s greats, KRS-One, with art by the seminal Kyle Baker. The comic expanded on KRS’s socially conscious lyrics to help “break the chains of ignorance that shackle the African American community” and shine a light on the Black history that isn’t told in schools. The one-shot even came with a cassette of exclusive KRS track that you could listen to while reading it, a practice that is occasionally replicated by other musicians turned comic scribes.

Jonathan Coulton

If you’ve played the Portal games or Left 4 Dead 2, Jonathan Coulton’s name should sound familiar. He’s the musician behind songs such as “Still Alive” and “Re: Your Brains.” He recently made his first foray into comics this year with Solid State, which was co-written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Albert Monteys. It’s an adaptation/expansion of Coulton’s recent alum of the same name, which he describes as being, “about the internet, trolls, artificial intelligence, and how love and empathy will save humanity!” It’s also funny as hell, but that shouldn’t be a surprise.

Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)

Drummer and singer for the noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt, Chippendale’s comics are just like his music: erratic, raw and overwhelming at times. Ninja is a combination of Chippendale’s childhood comics with art he created as an adult, and Maggot is a bizarre mini-comic collection that was drawn over a Japanese book catalogue. His most recent release, Puke Force, is a collection of single-page gag strips that tackle, “social media narcissism, governmental propaganda, racism, and a culture of violence, skewering the malice of the right and the hypocrisy of the left."

Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls) and Jason Webley

Musical duo Evelyn and Evelyn are conjoined twin sisters (actually, they’re musicians Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley, but don’t tell anyone). With art by Cynthia von Buhler (herself an accomplished performer and musician), Palmer and Webley co-wrote a graphic novel, Evelyn Evelyn: A Terrible Tale In Two Tomes, which was released as a tie-in with Evelyn Evelyn’s self-titled album. It detailed the bizarre and extraordinary lives of the sisters.

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (The Dandy Warhols)

From indie rock to indie comics, Courtney Taylor-Taylor teamed up with co-writer and artist Jim Rugg to create One Model Nation. The graphic novel follows the rise and fall of the fictional krautrock band One Model Nation, set against the political landscape of late seventies Berlin. Taylor-Taylor also created a greatest hits album for One Model Nation titled Totalwerks, Vol. 1 (1969–1977) that was released alongside the graphic novel.

Archer Prewitt (The Sea and Cake)

Beginning as freelance illustrator for the Kansas City Stay and working as a colorist for Marvel, Prewitt has had his cartooning work published in various comic anthologies such as BLAB!, Zero Zero, Drawn and Quarterly, MOME, and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. From 1997 to 2004, Drawn and Quarterly published Sof' Boy & Friends, a series that followed a strange, white blob person’s everyday life and managed to score a nomination for Best Coloring at the 1997 Eisner Awards.