Cyriaque Lamar

“I work for the internet, so you don’t have to!”

Cyriaque Lamar, Brooklyn, New York, 2024
Photo by Camelia Manea

MY CAREER

Thanks to almost two decades of digital media experience, I have a deep understanding of content creation and audience development. Sponsored posts, newsletters, poring over social media data by the pallet: I’ve done it all.

From 2020-2022, I was Managing Editor of Cracked, where I directed a team of five staffers and 30+ international writers, all the while giving the site its best traffic in years. I even brought back Cracked magazine’s mascot to celebrate the site’s improved fortunes:

  • Hey Everybody, Cracked’s Mascot Is Back
  • At Cracked, I spent years running writers’ rooms and editing articles. Here’s a fraction of the thousands of comedy articles I ushered to publication:

  • 5 'Whoa' Scenes From Ancient Earth School Forgot To Teach
  • The Story Of The Rogue Burger King In Pittsburgh
  • 5 Things About Vikings That We All Get Wrong
  • 6 Fantastical Animals We Drove To Extinction
  • Sometimes I write, and my prose veers between legitimate observation and hooting nonsense. I’ve written hundreds of pieces, and here are some that were not hopelessly mangled by site redesigns:

  • Marmaduke is the biggest "F*** You" to modernity I've ever seen (io9)
  • The 6 Most Terrifying Sex Illustrations on Wikipedia (Cracked)
  • Frank Miller's Holy Terror isn't just a bad comic — it's a bad propaganda comic (io9)
  • What's next for Grant Morrison? The democratic Superman and Supergods (io9)
  • 10 Real Book Covers From Dinosaur-On-Human Sex Novels (Cracked)
  • Why Sex and The City 2 is a science fiction movie (io9)
  • Because I have range, I’ve also coordinated press exclusives with Marvel Comics and Magic: The Gathering and developed sponsored content for Amazon and 1047 Games.

    Finally, here’s an incomplete list of people I’ve interviewed over the years: the cast of Breaking Bad, director Guillermo del Toro, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Faith No More’s Mike Patton, cartoonist Kate Beaton, Y the Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan, and Tim & Eric.