Craig McCracken

Craig McCracken Birth Name: Craig Douglas McCracken Gender:   Male Date of birth: March 31, 1971 (age 52) Place of birth: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States Role(s): Director, writer, cartoonist, creator of Wander Over Yonder Characters portrayed: The Sock in "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!" Other projects: The Powerpuff Girls Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Kid Cosmic

Craig McCracken is the creator of Wander Over Yonder. He is the husband of Lauren Faust. He also created The Powerpuff Girls(1998) and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends(2004) for Cartoon Network and Kid Cosmic for Netflix. He voiced the sock in the episode "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!".

Life and career

McCracken at San Diego Comic Con.

McCracken got involved with 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 freshman year, he created a series of short, clippings of 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 become the premier for The Powerpuff Girls.

In 1993, McCracken was tapped by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons to work as art director on 2 Stupid Dogs, as well as Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory, both of which aired primarily on Cartoon Network in the United States. He began producing The Powerpuff Girls, which premiered as a short in 1995 on studio president Fred Seibert's animation incubator What a Cartoon!, and full half-hour episodes in 1998. The show has won both Emmy and Annie awards.

In 2004, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends began airing on Cartoon Network. This series also won many Emmy and Annie awards. In April 2008, he became executive producer of a new Cartoon Network showcase project called Cartoonstitute which later greenlit two future Cartoon Network shows, JG Quintel's Regular Show(2010-2017) and future Looney Tunes Cartoons creator Peter Browngardt's Uncle Grandpa(2013-2017).

After 15 years of employment, he resigned from Cartoon Network and created Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel in 2013. After 9 years of employment, he left and resigned from Disney in 2018 to make and develop Kid Cosmic(2021-2022) for Netflix which only lasted 5 years of employment but he was able to finish Kid Cosmic in its entirely. He returned to Cartoon Network in 2022 to executive produce and make two new reboots of The Powerpuff Girls(He would be more involved compared to the 2016 reboot where he was not involved at all) and a preschool reboot of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, both being produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, the studio behind The Amazing World of Gumball.

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Episodes he wrote

Season 1

• "The Picnic" (story)
• "The Greatest" (story, teleplay and storyboards)
• "The Egg" (story and teleplay)
• "The Fugitives" (story)
• "The Good Deed" (story, teleplay and storyboards)
• "The Pet" (story)
• "The Prisoner" (story)
• "The Bad Guy" (story)
• "The Troll" (story)
• "The Box" (story)
• "The Hat" (story)
• "The Little Guy" (story)
• "The Ball" (story)
• "The Bounty" (story)
• "The Hero" (story)
• "The Birthday Boy" (story)
• "The Nice Guy" (story)
• "The Time Bomb" (story)
• "The Tourist" (story)
• "The Day" (story)
• "The Night" (story)
• "The Lonely Planet" (story)
• "The Brainstorm" (story)
• "The Toddler" (story)
• "The Fancy Party" (story)
• "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!" (story)
• "The Void" (story)
• "The Party Animal" (story)
• "The Gift 2: The Giftening" (story)
• "The Date" (story)
• "The Buddies" (story)
• "The Liar" (story)
• "The Stray" (story)
• "The Funk" (story)
• "The Enemies" (story)
• "The Rider" (story)
• "The Gift" (story)

Season 2

• "The Greater Hater" (story and teleplay)
• "The Big Day" (story)
• "The Breakfast" (story and teleplay)
• "The Fremergency Fronfract" (story)
• "The Boy Wander" (story)

Episodes he directed

• "The Greatest"
• "The Little Guy"

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1992	Whoopass Stew!	creator, director, writer, animator
1997	No Neck Joe	creator, writer, director (made in 1990)
1998	Rude Removal	storyboard artist
1999	Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip	writer
2002	The Powerpuff Girls Movie	creator, writer, director, executive producer, storyboard artist, character designer
2008	The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!	writer, director, executive producer, story editor, storyboard artist, character designer

Television

Year	Title	Role
1993–1995	2 Stupid Dogs	art director, storyboard artist
1995–1997	What a Cartoon!	writer, director, art director
1995–1996	Dumb and Dumber	character designer
1996–1998	Dexter's Laboratory	director, art director, model designer, storyboard artist
1998–2005	The Powerpuff Girls	creator, executive producer, writer, director
2004–2009	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	creator, executive producer, developer, writer, director, story editor
2009	Chowder	writer, storyboard artist Episode: The Birthday Suits
2013-2016	Wander Over Yonder	creator, executive producer Voice of the sock in "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!".
2021-2022	Kid Cosmic	creator, executive producer