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About Jay Pinkerton
- Jay Pinkerton (born June 15, 1977) is a Canadian humorist known for co-writing, with Erik Wolpaw, the story of Valve'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" (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. Pinkerton joined Valve in 2008 and served as a writer for their games.
- In June 2017, he announced he had left Valve for unspecified reasons.
- However, he returned to resume working as a writer for Valve in July 2018.
- Some of his work on return included writing for Half-Life: Alyx, a VR title to be released in 2020.
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