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Craig McCracken (born March 31, 1971) is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer known for creating 's The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and 's Wander Over Yonder, and 's .

Regarded as "one of the most successful creators of episodic comedy cartoons", his style was "at the forefront of a second wave of innovative, creator-driven television animation" in the 1990s, along with that of other animators such as Genndy Tartakovsky, and has been credited as "a staple of American modern animated television".

Early life and education
McCracken was born March 31, 1971, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. He began drawing at an early age. He attended California High School in Whittier, California, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he met his friend and future collaborator, Genndy Tartakovsky. During his first year, he created a series of short cartoons featuring a character named No Neck Joe, which were picked up by Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. While at CalArts, he also created a short entitled Whoopass Stew!, which would later become the basis for The Powerpuff Girls.
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Career
In 1993, McCracken was hired by Cartoons as an art director on the Turner Broadcasting System series 2 Stupid Dogs, alongside Tartakovsky. As his first job in the animation industry, he was "never really happy with how that show worked". While McCracken was at Hanna-Barbera, studio president began a new project: an animation incubator consisting of 48 new cartoons running approximately seven minutes each. Dubbed What a Cartoon!, it motivated McCracken to further develop his Whoopass Girls! creation. He recalled that the network could not market a show with the word "ass" in it, so two of his friends came up with The Powerpuff Girls as a replacement for the original title. His new pilot, " The Powerpuff Girls in: Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", premiered on February 20, 1995, on 's World Premiere Toons-In, and a second short, " Crime 101", followed on January 28, 1996. The first short to be picked up by the network was Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory, which McCracken would contribute to in early seasons. McCracken's Powerpuff Girls was the fourth cartoon to be greenlit a full series, which premiered on November 18, 1998, with the final episode airing on March 25, 2005. The show has won and awards. In 2002, McCracken directed The Powerpuff Girls Movie, a prequel to his series. The film received generally positive reviews but was a box office failure. McCracken left The Powerpuff Girls after four seasons, focusing on his next project, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It premiered with the 90-minute television special "House of Bloo's" on August 13, 2004, on Cartoon Network. He developed the series with wife and Mike Moon. The show ran for six seasons, all directed by McCracken, and concluded on May 3, 2009. It also won Emmy and Annie awards.

In April 2008, he became executive producer of a new Cartoon Network showcase project called The Cartoonstitute. After 17 years of employment, he resigned from Cartoon Network in 2009, after it shifted focus to live-action and reality shows. He created Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and in August 2013. After Wander Over Yonder was cancelled, McCracken pitched a new show to Disney, based on his 2009 comic strip The Kid from Planet Earth. Disney ultimately passed on the project, and he eventually left the company in 2017. He then pitched his idea to and it was greenlight under the name of . The show premiered on February 2, 2021, and ended on February 3, 2022. It is the first of McCracken's original works to have a serialized format and his return to the superhero genre since The Powerpuff Girls. He pitched 10 projects to Netflix in August 2021, but eventually left by April 2022 due to mass layoffs at Netflix Animation.

On July 18, 2022, it was announced that McCracken began developing reboots of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends at Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. Foster's Home will take form in a pre-school show focused on new characters. In 2023, McCracken received the Winsor McCay Award at the Annie Awards ceremony for his "unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation". The Hollywood Reporter also named him one of the most powerful people in kids entertainment, in pair with Lauren Faust.

Style and influences
Since his early years of career, McCracken has chosen to design characters in a simplistic way (as opposed to the realism of Warner Bros. or Disney feature films) because it is more practical for television production, as money and time limits what the animators can do.
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In addition to this, he claimed that the crew at Hanna-Barbera wanted their shows "to be different than what was on and Disney". Some of his main inspirations were comic book artists such as Charles M. Schulz, and Hergé. All of his series have had diverse influences in terms of design, comedy and storytelling. To mention some: 1960s Batman, Underdog and Rocky and Bullwinkle in The Powerpuff Girls, The Muppet Show, and SpongeBob SquarePants in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (which also has a visual style inspired by 60s psychedelia), Yellow Submarine and in Wander Over Yonder, and Dennis the Menace and The Adventures of Tintin in Kid Cosmic.

During his time at CalArts, he discovered the cartoons of United Productions of America (UPA), which also heavily influenced the visual style of his creations. His shows often present the underdog as the main focus. For example, Kid Cosmic is about a group of "punk rock" characters who "may not have the skill or the talent, but they have the determination and conviction" to create a superhero team. Foster's also revolves around a group of misfit creatures that have been abandoned by their original owners. Although the Powerpuff Girls are not typical underdogs, the fact that they are little girls might make people underestimate them as superheroes. He also liked to present "the contrast of cute characters being strong and tough". Although the Powerpuff Girls have been widely regarded as feminist icons, McCracken has claimed that the real background for their creation was finding "a fun idea" or "a cool concept".

Personal life
McCracken married animator on March 13, 2004. Faust took maternity leave in mid-2016 to take care of their newborn daughter, Quinn.

Filmography
+ Films
1991No Neck JoeCreator, director, writer, and animator
1992Whoopass Stew!Creator, director, writer, and animator
1999Story
2002The Powerpuff Girls MovieCreator, director, story, writer, executive producer, storyboard artist, character designer, and character layout
2009The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!Creator, Writer, Story, director, executive producer, story editor, storyboard artist, and character designer

+ Television
1993–19952 Stupid DogsArt director
1995Space Ghost Coast to CoastHimself
1995–1997What a Cartoon!Writer, director, and art director
1995–1996Dumb and DumberCharacter designer
1996–2003Dexter's LaboratoryDirector, art director, model designer, and storyboard artist
1998–2005The Powerpuff GirlsCreator, story, executive producer, writer, storyboard artist, recording director, and director (1998-2002; 2008)
2004–2009Foster's Home for Imaginary FriendsCreator, executive producer, art director, character designer, developer, story, writer, storyboard artist, director, and story editor
Executive creative consultant
Enter Mode 5
2008Executive producer
Executive producer
2013–2016Wander Over YonderCreator, writer, storyboard artist (2013), director (2013), story, character designer, executive producer, and additional voices
2021–2022Creator, executive producer, story, writer, storyboard artist, character designer, director

Awards and nominations
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less)Dexter's Laboratory (for "The Big Sister"), Genndy Tartakovsky, and
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less)Dexter's Laboratory (for "Star Spangled Sidekicks", "TV Super Pals", and "Game Over"), , Genndy Tartakovsky, and Jason Butler Rote
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)The Powerpuff Girls (for "Bubblevicious" and "The Bare Facts")John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers, Jason Butler Rote, and Genndy Tartakovsky
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)The Powerpuff Girls (for "Beat Your Greens" and "Down 'N Dirty"), John McIntyre, Randy Myers, Amy Keating Rogers, and Genndy Tartakovsky
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)The Powerpuff Girls (for "Moral Decay" and "Meet the Beat Alls"), , John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers, and Genndy Tartakovsky
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)The Powerpuff Girls (for "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas"), , Juli Hashiguchi, Craig Lewis, John McIntyre, Brian A. Miller, Randy Myers, Amy Keating Rogers, , James Tim Walker
Best Production Design in an Animated Television ProductionFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "A Lost Claus")Mike Moon, Dave Dunnet, and Martin Ansolabehere
Best Directing in an Animated Television ProductionFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Duchess of Wails")
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Individual Achievement in AnimationFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "House of Bloo's")
Best Directing in an Animated Television ProductionFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Bus the Two of Us")
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Go Goo Go")Brian A. Miller, , Jennifer Pelphrey, Vince Aniceto, , Eric Pringle
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Good Wilt Hunting")Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, , Vince Aniceto, Michelle Papandrew, , Craig Lewis, , Eric Pringle, Robert Cullen
Directing in an Animated Television Production or Short FormFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for )
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for )Jennifer Pelphrey, Michelle Papandrew, Tim McKeon, Ed Baker, Alex Kirwan, , Brian A. Miller, Ryan Slater, , , Vaughn Tada, , Eric Pringle
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Short-Format Animated Program (for "Pilot"), Janet Dimon, , , Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, and
Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionWander Over Yonder
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Short-Format Animated ProgramWander Over Yonder (for "The Gift 2: The Giftening")Francisco Angones, Amy Higgins, , Ben Joseph, Johanna Stein, Dave Thomas, Eddie Trigueros
Best Character Design - TV/Media (for "Kid Cosmic and the Rings of Power!")
Winsor McCay Award
Children's and Family Emmy AwardsIndividual Achievement in Animation

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