Craig McCracken(I)
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Craig McCracken has been interested in drawing and animation since the
age of three. Some of his sources of inspiration are Japanese anime,
Super Friends (1973),
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
and Little Golden Books. After briefly considering a career as a comic
book illustrator, McCracken studied animation at Cal Arts in LA (along
with fellow classmate and
Dexter's Laboratory (1996)
creator Genndy Tartakovsky. His most
famous creation,
The Powerpuff Girls (1998),
began life in a student film under the less-cutesy title,
Whoopass Stew! (1992), it was
quickly renamed
The Powerpuff Girls (1998).
