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  • Matt Manser
    1

    Matt Manser is a writer/comedian based in Los Angeles.  He is the head writer for "Big News," a weekly topical sketch show at IO West, writes sketches for shows at the UCB Theater, and writes videos for UCBComedy.com.  Oh, and he has also written for CMT's "Trick My Truck."

  • Snuffy Johnson
    2

    Snuffy Johnson was born the son of poor parents in Queens, then opened a chain of dry-cleaning stores on the East side of Manhattan.  He has been married to his wife Weezy for almost thirty years, and they have a son, Lionel, who disappointed him by marrying the daughter of the honky next door.

  • Worm Miller
    3

    In 1957, Worm tragically drowned at camp while counselors were inconsiderately having sex. Or so everyone thought. Ambiguously undead, Worm vengefully returned decades later and has been happily killing sexy idiots ever since. He's fought Corey Feldman and Freddy Krueger and gone into space. He hopes someday to fight Michael Meyers and a Predator.

  • Clem Rorsch
    4

    Clem Rorsch aka Ryan Sandoval is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles, with articles published in Hustler, Slap Skateboard Magazine, and Surf Shot Digital Magazine, for which he also acts as copy editor. He contributes regularly to Mad Atoms, and writes and directs videos for the online sketch collective weaknights.com

  • Hillel Aron
    5

    Hillel enjoys playing racquetball, eating steak, and reading about the American civil war. You can see him write about politics at www.dipdive.com. You can also find him on facebook and tell him how funny he is.

  • Becky Bain
    6

    Becky likes to scuba dive, sky dive, make movies, drink fancy wine and travel. But all of those hobbies are pretty expensive, so she usually just sticks to writing. Words are cheap.

  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    I HATE THE FUCKING EAGLES, MAN
    13 April 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Clayton Hauck
    I can never listen to Hotel California ever again.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    BACKPACKING THROUGH LOS ANGELES
    18 December 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    Wait, you thought you could take the bus places? Hah!
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    5 ONCE GREAT DIRECTORS WHO NOW SUCK
    15 December 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Hitchcock is shaking his head in disapproval from the grave.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    ABSINTHE: ALCOHOL FOR ASSHOLES
    07 April 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Anna Lucylle
    Fancy, rare and disgusting. It’s Absinthe.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    BANGIN’ THE BARTENDER
    17 December 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Jack Pistoletto
    Partying with rockstars, getting wasted beyond belief, and snogging foreign men with exotic accents – all for $8.25 an hour? Could be worse.
  • SPLOOGED
    PLEASE DON’T GROPE ME
    19 March 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Emilie Fitzsimmons
    Shouldn’t that just be assumed?
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    NO, I’VE NEVER SEEN THE GOONIES, SO FUCK OFF
    10 October 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    There were other movies in the 80s, jerk. So why are you so shocked I haven’t seen it?
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    BEING EMO SAVES LIVES
    05 November 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Christine Day Lorico
    One cheesy suicide poem I wrote in my marble notebook during my angsty teen years helped saved someone's life. So don't throw out those My Chemical Romance CDs quite yet.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    BREAKING UP WITH FRIENDS
    19 May 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marianne Baribaud
    It's impossible.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    OK, I ADMIT IT, I LIKE THE VALLEY
    24 March 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Brittany LeGault
    Just don't tell anyone.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    I FOUND OUT MY FIRST BOYFRIEND IS DEAD
    09 October 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Jonathan Jacobsen
    Thanks Myspace!
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    IF MY RESUME WAS ACTUALLY HONEST
    17 October 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Velentina Cobain
    You probably wouldn't hire me.
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    LET’S JOIN THE CIRCUS
    16 April 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Nello Esposito
    Whatever happened to doing something completely senseless
  • SPLOOGED
    MY TEACHER GAVE ME PORN
    29 December 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Johannes Schwab
    And other slightly inappropriate porn stories from my teenage years.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    OY VEY: HOOKING UP WITH A CONSERVATIVE JEW
    07 January 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Goyim aren’t looking all too bad.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    A STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO RAVING IN LA
    17 February 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Emma Hartvig
    Are awesome back massages really worth all the hassle?
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    10 WORST POST-OSCAR MOVIE ROLES
    11 March 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Juarez Ricci
    Kate Winslet, I will personally pay you several times your asking price if you ignore the urge to play Wonder Woman or Jim Carrey’s love interest in your next film. Please.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    AUDITIONING FOR AMERICAN IDOL
    20 October 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Dan Monick
    Because watching it from the comfort of your own home can only provide so much shame.
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    NEVER MEET YOUR IDOLS
    16 March 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    They probably don’t want to meet you, either.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    A NEW FORM OF ONLINE DATING
    04 February 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Vishal Misra
    Because the old way is still really embarrassing.
  • SPLOOGED
    (FAKE REASONS) WHY SHE WON’T SLEEP WITH YOU
    06 November 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    The real reason is she doesn't like you.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    POPULAR DRUGS REFERENCE MANUAL
    07 December 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: truck
    Drugs are neat!
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    MY PERSONAL TRAINER IS CRAZY
    16 October 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    A 22 year old former meth-head with an eating disorder tries to give me advice on how to live a healthier life – I can't help but love her!
  • POLITICALLY ERECT
    PETA = WTF
    09 June 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Manuel Rebollo
    Save the whales from PETA.
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    HONEST TO BLOG, I STILL LIKE JUNO, DAMMIT
    30 October 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Just cause something’s popular, it doesn’t mean it sucks.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    STALKING BRITNEY SPEARS
    07 November 2008 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Dan Monick
    One celebrity’s insanity provides my paycheck – what a way to make a buck in this town.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    YOUR WEIRD SEX FACES RUINED IT
    09 March 2010 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Julie Rey
    This is why God invented glory holes.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    THE COUGAR REFERENCE MANUAL
    12 June 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Just because they're 80, doesn't mean they aren't having sex with frat guys.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    THE SMARTEST IDIOT OF ALL TIME
    19 October 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: MILKBBI (justin wallis)
    She worked in retail...
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    KNOW YOUR ANIMATED MOVIES
    01 October 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    I mean, what else are you going to watch while you're high? Planet Earth?
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    MTV THROUGH THE AGES
    19 November 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    We can only wonder what the future holds for our beloved Music Television.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    FAT CAMP CHRONICLES
    04 March 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Shaun C. Gibson
    There’s a fat kid inside all of us.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    HOW WE’RE SPENDING VALENTINE’S DAY
    12 February 2010 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Boys vs. Girls.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE
    03 June 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Liva Rutmane
    It's the American way.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    GOING ON A FIRST DATE HIGH
    23 June 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Mel Stringer
    Don't forget to share.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    BATMAN REFERENCE MANUAL
    07 August 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Doug Chang
    Because we'd all like to forget that 'Batman and Robin' ever happened.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    RENAISSANCE FAIRS ARE COOL
    08 May 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Bogdan Zwir
    Ye be brave enough to be enjoy the merriment of a fool? Pray, yes!
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    OBAMA WILL GET YOU LAID
    06 July 2009 / Writer: Becky Bain / Artist: Megan Glosser
    He might not fix the economy, but he can get you some pussy.
  • Katie Ward
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    Katie F. Ward has lived in a bunch of places so, she roots for several different football teams and has a ranking system only she can understand. She tries to eat organic food, but hasn't ruled out Restylane. She loves Jay-Z, Jeff Buckley, and Celine Dion equally. Oh, and she's a hott mess. Seriously.

  • Kirk Pynchon
    8

    Kirk Pynchon was born a poor black child. He enjoys skinny-skiing and going to bullfights on acid. He also listens to Tito Puente albums until four in the morning.  In his spare time Kirk enjoys ripping off lines from movies and pretending they are his own.

  • Bob Schriner
    9

    Stories of Bob Schriner conjure images of a man whose pranks and scams are a blend of crime, audacity and high comedy. For years people debated whether he was a fictional character. MadAtoms has found him and given him a safe house in the Hollywood hills.

  • Alex D. Reid
    10

    Alex D. Reid flosses every night and likes reading about serial killers.  Contact him here.