Jay Pinkerton

Who is Jay Pinkerton?

Jay Pinkerton is a Canadian humorist known for co-writing, with Erik Wolpaw, the story of Valve Software's video game Portal 2. A former editor of both Cracked.com and Cracked magazine, PlayStation World magazine referred to him as a "one-man gag machine". Prior to joining Cracked, Pinkerton served as the managing editor of NationalLampoon.com, the website of the national comedy and film brand.

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", 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.