Craig McCracken

Craig Douglas McCracken (born March 31, 1971) is an American animator, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for creating the Emmy-winning animated series The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder as well as writing and storyboarding for Dexter's Laboratory for Cartoon Network. He has been married to fellow animator Lauren Faust since 2004. 2Personal life McCracken got involved in drawing at an early age. After he graduated from California High School in Whittier, California, he attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he honed his animation skills and met his classmate Genndy Tartakovsky, with whom he would occasionally collaborate throughout his career. 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. Craig's wife Faust took maternity leave in mid-2016 to take care of their newborn daughter. 2Career In 1993, McCracken was tapped by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons to be an art director on the Turner Broadcasting System series 2 Stupid Dogs, where he would also work with Tartakovsky. While McCracken was at Hanna-Barbera, studio president Fred Seibert began a new project: an animation incubator consisting of 48 new cartoons running approximately seven minutes eac