Personal
Conway married Karen Britten, a psychologist who works with autistic children, in 1992. As of 2009, they reside in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California. Conway is the father of two daughters, Cara and Rachel, the former with first wife Carla (Joseph) Conway, whose own comic-book credits include stories in Vampire Tales #8 and #9, Savage Tales #10 and #11, Fantastic Four #170, and Ms. Marvel #1 for Marvel, and The Fury of Firestorm #19 and #24-27 and Superman #407 for DC.
Conway's ancestral family background is Irish, as he described in his blog:
In my case, on my mother's side, I'm a second-generation immigrant. My grandparents were born in Ireland. They came to America in the late 'teens of the last century and lived a life not very different from the life my housekeeper and her husband live today. My grandfather was a day laborer in the Brooklyn ship yards. My (step)-grandmother washed floors at Hunter College in Manhattan. (My biological grandmother died when my mother was eight years old, so I've no idea what she did to earn a living, but I assume it was either piece work or domestic work of some kind.) Because they were lower-class Irish, they were the Hispanics of their day — tolerated, but not embraced, by the larger society, and viewed with scorn by the WASP upper class. ... Even my father felt that anti-Irish prejudice, real or imagined. In the 1950s he once spoke, rather bitterly, about being one of the two 'token Irishmen' working at his company.Read more about this topic: Gerry Conway
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