SCOTT GOSAR
1966-?
Caricature
by Jason Seiler
Writer: THWAK
Magazine 2001-2003
Writer: Weekly World
News 2001-2003
Writer:
CRACKED Magazine
2002-2005
Editor: CRACKED Magazine 2003-2005
Writer:
Jokester Magazine
2006-?
Writer:
GAG! Magazine 2007-?
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Founder and Crooked
Executive Officer:
“The Mad Store.Com”
2000-?
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The happy
Editor and his quality product—August, 2004
In August 2003, I somehow managed to become
the Editor of CRACKED Magazine, the most enduring of the internationally
distributed, so-called “MAD copycats” which made its debut in 1958. In early
2005, CRACKED was sold to Teshkeel Media Group, which
tried to remake CRACKED in the image of a slick, text and photo-heavy “humor”
magazine stuffed full of top-shelf liquor ads, lazy Photoshopping,
boring “Numbered Lists,” fan-boy interviews with various established and
up-and-coming comedians and very little comic/humorous artwork. This “New
CRACKED” bore absolutely no resemblance to its predecessor, looking more like
“Maxim” or “Men’s Journal,” with a layout style inspired by those old
Scholastic Press kiddie-mag titles “Dynamite” and
“Bananas.” “CRACKED 2.0” was aimed primarily at yuppies and yuppies-in training
(ie: college students), who apparently ignored it in
droves. This final incarnation of CRACKED, whose editors and publishers thought
so little of its namesake as to actually re-inaugurate itself with issue # 1,
would only last for a mere 3 issues, folding for good in 2006.
In addition to editing the final four issues
of the “old CRACKED Magazine,” I also authored or co-authored a number of
CRACKED articles during this period. Below are thumbnail scans of my CRACKED
and other humor magazine work. To check
out even more of my humor magazine contributions, click here.
Credited
Contributor: “The THWAK Bonfire Of Insanity Collection”
(2009)
(I’m the
guy holding the gas can in the first cover variation!)
“William
M. Gaines Look-A-Like Contest”
Writer/Photographer:
Scott Gosar
MAD Magazine
# 484, December 2007
Credited Contributor:
“Bat Boy Lives: The Weekly
World News Guide To Politics, Culture,
Celebrities, Alien
Abductions, And The Mutant Freaks That Shape Our
World”
By David Perel & The Staff Of Weekly
World News © 2005
Staff
Writer: GAG! Magazine
# 1 June
2007
“An
Outsourcing Christmas”
Writers:
Mike Arnold and Scott Gosar
Artist:
Mike Arnold
Jokester
# 1, 2005
“Kerry”
Artist:
CRACKED #
365, November 2004
Mr.
Precious: “The Great Debate”
Artist:
Mike Arnold, Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED
#365, November 2004
CRACKED
Presidential SHUT-UPS
Artist:
“Rush” Humphrey
Writer:
Scott Gosar
CRACKED
#365, November 2004
“Prophetical
Political Poetics”
Artist:
Neal Shapiro
Writer: Scott
Gosar
CRACKED
#365, November 2004
The
CRACKED Lens
Writer/Photographer:
Scott Gosar
CRACKED
#365, November 2004
“Worst In Show”
“McSlang For Future McDictionaries”
Artist:
Ben Boling
Artist: Kent Gamble
Writer:
Scott Gosar
Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED #
364, Sept. 2004 CRACKED # 364, Sept.
2004
“CRACKED
Predictions For The 2004-2005 School Year”
Artist:
Kevin Tuma
Writer: Scott Gosar CRACKED # 364, Sept. 2004
“If It
Weren’t For…” Artist: Mike Arnold Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED #
364, Sept. 2004
“Omarosa” (song parody) “CRACKED Baseball SHUT-UPS”
Artist:
Mike D’Antuono Artist: Noel “Scotch”
Writer:
Scott Gosar Writer:
Scott Gosar
CRACKED #
364, Sept. 2004
CRACKED # 364, Sept. 2004
“Pinheads
Of The
Artist:
Kevin Tuma
Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED #
363, July 2004
“ Beatles
Tunes For Our Loony Times”
Artist:
Kent Gamble Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED #
363, July 2004
“If
Jessica Simpson ‘Did’ History”
Artist:
Randy Martinez Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED #
363, July 2004
CRACKED
SHUT-UPS
Artist:
Noel
CRACKED #
363, July 2004
Mr. Precious: “School Daze”
“The CRACKEDables”
Artist: Todd Casey
Artist: Ray Morelli
Writer: Scott Gosar (with Dick Kulpa) Writers: John Samony and Scott Gosar
CRACKED # 362
CRACKED # 362
April 2004
April
2004
CRACKED Backwash “CRACKED
Separates MEN From BOYS”
Marten Jallad/Scott Gosar Artist:
Kent Gamble
Introductory Bio page
Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED # 362
CRACKED # 362
April 2004
April 2004
“The Last People On Earth You’d Ever Want To Be” “ It’ll Be A Cold Day In Hell When…”
Artist: Jason Seiler Artist:
Ben Boling
Writer: Scott Gosar
Writer: Scott Gosar
CRACKED # 362
CRACKED # 362
April 2004
April 2004
“CRACKED
SHUT-UPS” “10
Reasons Why
Artist: Noel
Writer: Scott Gosar Writers:
CRACKED # 362 CRACKED # 362
April 2004
April 2004
Want to read this crap? I
may post these works on the ‘Net at some point, but for
now, I’ll be happy to sell you the magazines they appear in!
Oddballs, Obscurities and One-Hit
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