Jay Pinkerton
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Jay Pinkerton is a nationally published humorist and a former editor of both CRACKED.com and Cracked magazine.
Prior to joining Cracked, Pinkerton served as the managing editor of NationalLampoon.com
, the website of the national comedy and film brand. Since joining Cracked, Pinkerton has helped make CRACKED.com a leading comedy site, including by bringing in new contributors.
Jay Pinkerton initially registered his website, Jaypinkerton.com, to be a portfolio of his comedy and artwork. Afterwards, Pinkerton joined the forums of the Internet humor website "Pointless Waste of Time" (PWOT), and took the attention of the site's owner, David Wong
, with whom Pinkerton worked on a now-defunct satirical news commentary, the "News Skim", and other comedy articles. It was around this time that he first published his redone Spider-Man comics, spawning an Internet phenomenon.
In addition to Cracked, Pinkerton’s work has also appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
, Modern Humorist
, CollegeHumor.com
and numerous other sites. He has also had his humor writing published in print, including in Jest Magazine, McSweeney’s Best Non-Required Reading 2003, National Lampoon’s Big Book of Love, The CollegeHumor Guide to College and Golden Words
.
He was also recently hired by Valve Software to help co-write the story of the critically acclaimed video game, Portal 2
.
Prior to joining Cracked, Pinkerton served as the managing editor of NationalLampoon.com
National Lampoon Inc
National Lampoon, Incorporated is a company formed in 2002 in order to use the brand name "National Lampoon" in comedy and entertainment. In the words of its prospectus, the role of the company is to "develop, produce, provide creative services and distribute National Lampoon branded comedic...
, the website of the national comedy and film brand. Since joining Cracked, Pinkerton has helped make CRACKED.com a leading comedy site, including by bringing in new contributors.
Jay Pinkerton initially registered his website, Jaypinkerton.com, to be a portfolio of his comedy and artwork. Afterwards, Pinkerton joined the forums of the Internet humor website "Pointless Waste of Time" (PWOT), and took the attention of the site's owner, David Wong
John Dies at the End
John Dies at the End is a comedic horror novel written by Jason Pargin that was first published online as a webserial beginning in 2001, then as an edited manuscript in 2004 and printed paperback in 2007 via Permuted Press. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were...
, with whom Pinkerton worked on a now-defunct satirical news commentary, the "News Skim", and other comedy articles. It was around this time that he first published his redone Spider-Man comics, spawning an Internet phenomenon.
In addition to Cracked, Pinkerton’s work has also appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
McSweeney's
McSweeney's is an American publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers.Apart from its book list, McSweeney's is responsible for four regular publications: the quarterly literary journal,...
, Modern Humorist
Modern Humorist
Modern Humorist is a U.S.-based humor webzine founded in 2000 by John Aboud and Michael Colton , and managed by CEO Kate Barker. Its board of directors includes feature film producer Frank Marshall and comedian Jon Stewart.A competitor of the The Onion, Modern Humorist stopped publishing new...
, CollegeHumor.com
CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by InterActiveCorp and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's...
and numerous other sites. He has also had his humor writing published in print, including in Jest Magazine, McSweeney’s Best Non-Required Reading 2003, National Lampoon’s Big Book of Love, The CollegeHumor Guide to College and Golden Words
Golden Words
Golden Words is a weekly humour publication produced by students at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Currently, it is self-styled as the only humour weekly in Canada....
.
He was also recently hired by Valve Software to help co-write the story of the critically acclaimed video game, Portal 2
Portal 2
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The sequel to the 2007 video game Portal, it was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game...
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