Craig McCracken

Craig McCracken^[1] (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.

Craig McCracken
McCracken in January 2012
Born	(1971-03-31) March 31, 1971 (age 54) Charleroi, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupations	Cartoonist animator director writer producer
Years active	1990–present
Known for	The Powerpuff Girls Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Wander Over Yonder Kid Cosmic
Spouse	Lauren Faust ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	1

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
1991	No Neck Joe	Creator, director, writer, and animator (made in 1990, copyright date 1991)
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

Television

Year	Title	Role
1993–1995	2 Stupid Dogs	Art director
1995	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself (Episode: "President's Day Nightmare")
1995–1997	What a Cartoon!	Writer, director, and art director
1995–1996	Dumb and Dumber	Character designer
1996–2003	Dexter's Laboratory	Director,[2] 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
2007	Diggs Tailwagger: Galactic Rover	Executive creative consultant
Enter Mode 5
2008	Uncle Grandpa	Executive producer (Episode: "Pilot")
2009	Chowder	Story and storyboard artist (Episode: "The Birthday Suits")
Regular Show	Executive producer (Episode: "Pilot")
2013–2016	Wander Over Yonder[3]	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
1996	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	Nominated	[4]
1997	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	Nominated	[4]
1999	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	Nominated	[5]
2000	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	Nominated	[6]
2001	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	Nominated	[6][7]
2004	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	Nominated	[8]
2005	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	Won	[9]
	Annie Awards	Best Directing in an Animated Television Production	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Duchess of Wails")	—	Nominated	[9]
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "House of Bloo's")	—	Won	[10][11]
2006	Annie Awards	Best Directing in an Animated Television Production	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Bus the Two of Us")	—	Nominated	[12]
	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	Nominated	[13][14]
2007	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	Nominated	[14][15]
2008	Annie Awards	Directing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for Destination: Imagination)	Rob Renzetti	Nominated	[16]
2009	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	Won	[17]
2010	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	Nominated	[18]
2014	Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production	Wander Over Yonder	—	Nominated	[19]
2015	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	Nominated	[20]
2022	Annie Awards	Best Character Design - TV/Media	Kid Cosmic (for "Kid Cosmic and the Rings of Power!")	—	Nominated	[21]
	Annie Awards	Winsor McCay Award	—	—	Won	[22]
	Children's and Family Emmy Awards	Individual Achievement in Animation	Kid Cosmic	—	Won	[23]