Craig McCracken

**Craig McCracken** (born March 31, 1971) is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer. He is known for creating Cartoon Network's _The Powerpuff Girls_ and _Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_, Disney Channel and Disney XD's _Wander Over Yonder_, and Netflix's _Kid Cosmic_.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1991|_No Neck Joe_|Creator, director, writer, and animator|
|1992|_Whoopass Stew!_|Creator, director, writer, and animator|
|1999|_Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip_|Story|
|2002|_The Powerpuff Girls Movie_|Creator, director, story, writer, executive producer, storyboard artist, character designer, and character layout|
|2009|_The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!_|Creator, Writer, Story, director, executive producer, story editor, storyboard artist, and character designer|

|Year|Title|Role|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1993–1995|_2 Stupid Dogs_|Art director|||
|1995|_Space Ghost Coast to Coast_|Himself|||
|1995–1997|_What a Cartoon!_|Writer, director, and art director|||
|1995–1996|_Dumb and Dumber_|Character designer|||
|1996–2003|_Dexter's Laboratory_|Director, art director, model designer, and storyboard artist|||
|1998–2005|_The Powerpuff Girls_|Creator, story, executive producer, writer, storyboard artist, recording director, and director (1998-2002; 2008)|||
|2004–2009|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_|Creator, executive producer, art director, character designer, developer, story, writer, storyboard artist, director, and story editor|||
|rowspan="2|2007|_Diggs Tailwagger: Galactic Rover_|rowspan="2"|Executive creative consultant|
|_Enter Mode 5_|||||
|2008|_Uncle Grandpa_|rowspan="1"|Executive producer||
|rowspan="2|2009|_Chowder_|Story and storyboard artist||
|_Regular Show_|rowspan="1"|Executive producer|||
|2013–2016|_Wander Over Yonder_|Creator, writer, storyboard artist (2013), director (2013), story, character designer, executive producer, and additional voices|||
|2021–2022|_Kid Cosmic_|Creator, executive producer, story, writer, storyboard artist, character designer, director|||

## Awards and nominations

|Date|Award|Category|Work|Shared with|Result|Ref||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less)|_Dexter's Laboratory_ (for "The Big Sister")|Larry Huber, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Paul Rudish||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less)|_Dexter's Laboratory_ (for "Star Spangled Sidekicks", "TV Super Pals", and "Game Over")|Sherry Gunther, Larry Huber, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Jason Butler Rote||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding 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 Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less)|_The Powerpuff Girls_ (for "Beat Your Greens" and "Down 'N Dirty")|Robert Alvarez, John McIntyre, Randy Myers, Amy Keating Rogers, and Genndy Tartakovsky||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)|_The Powerpuff Girls_ (for "Moral Decay" and "Meet the Beat Alls")|Robert Alvarez, Lauren Faust, John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers, and Genndy Tartakovsky||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)|_The Powerpuff Girls_ (for "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas")|Robert Alvarez, Lauren Faust, Juli Hashiguchi, Craig Lewis, John McIntyre, Brian A. Miller, Randy Myers, Amy Keating Rogers, Chris Savino, James Tim Walker||||
|rowspan="3"||Annie Awards|Best Production Design in an Animated Television Production|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for "A Lost Claus")|Mike Moon, Dave Dunnet, and Martin Ansolabehere|||
|Annie Awards|Best Directing in an Animated Television Production|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for "Duchess of Wails")||||||
|Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for "House of Bloo's")||||||
|rowspan="2"||Annie Awards|Best Directing in an Animated Television Production|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for "Bus the Two of Us")||||
|Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for "Go Goo Go")|Brian A. Miller, Lauren Faust, Jennifer Pelphrey, Vince Aniceto, Robert Alvarez, Eric Pringle|||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for "Good Wilt Hunting")|Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Lauren Faust, Vince Aniceto, Michelle Papandrew, Darrick Bachman, Craig Lewis, Robert Alvarez, Eric Pringle, Robert Cullen||||
||Annie Awards|Directing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for _Destination: Imagination_)|Rob Renzetti||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)|_Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ (for _Destination: Imagination_)|Jennifer Pelphrey, Michelle Papandrew, Tim McKeon, Ed Baker, Alex Kirwan, Robert Alvarez, Brian A. Miller, Ryan Slater, Lauren Faust, Darrick Bachman, Vaughn Tada, Rob Renzetti, Eric Pringle||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program|_Uncle Grandpa_ (for "Pilot")|Peter Browngardt, Janet Dimon, Robert Alvarez, Rob Renzetti, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, and Rob Sorcher||||
||Annie Awards|Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production|_Wander Over Yonder_|||||
||Primetime Emmy Awards|Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program|_Wander Over Yonder_ (for "The Gift 2: The Giftening")|Francisco Angones, Amy Higgins, Lauren Faust, Ben Joseph, Johanna Stein, Dave Thomas, Eddie Trigueros||||
|rowspan="3"||Annie Awards|Best Character Design - TV/Media|_Kid Cosmic_ (for "Kid Cosmic and the Rings of Power!")||||
|Annie Awards|Winsor McCay Award|||||||
|Children's and Family Emmy Awards|Individual Achievement in Animation|_Kid Cosmic_||||||

## Other websites

- Craig McCracken's deviantART account
- 10 Questions: Craig McCracken

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: Craig McCracken 1.jpg
- **caption**: McCracken in January 2012
- **birth place**: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- **years active**: 1990–present
- **children**: 1