Craig McCracken

Craig Douglas McCracken is the creator and one of the animators of The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder.

He started working for Cartoon Network in 1992 on 2 Stupid Dogs and Dexter's Laboratory, and created "The Powerpuff Girls," which was previously a college short named "Whoopass Stew." He left Cartoon Network Studios after CN started using more live action series.

He later began working on his new show, Wander Over Yonder, which premiered on August 16, 2013. Craig later announced in March 2016 that Wander Over Yonder was cancelled after 2 seasons and it aired its last episode on June 27, 2016, It is unclear what McCracken is working on following the downfall of Wander Over Yonder, but it is mostly likely that he is either working on a new series for Disney, or might consider taking over the new 2016 Powerpuff Girl Reboot, that has received criticism and negative reviews during the last 3 years that it has been aired.

Career
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 each. Dubbed What a Cartoon!, it motivated McCracken to further develop his Whoopass Girls! creation, renaming it The Powerpuff Girls in the process.

His new pilot, "The Powerpuff Girls in: Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", premiered on February 20, 1995, on Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toon-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 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 soon became a hit and has won both Emmy and Annie awards. In 2002 McCracken directed The Powerpuff Girls Movie, a prequel to his series. the film was a box-office disappointment. 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 Lauren Faust 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 15 years of employment, he resigned from Cartoon Network and created Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and the Disney Channel in 2013.