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Craig McCracken is an American animator, responsible for the [[Cartoon Network]] cartoons, ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', as well as ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''. Born in 1971 in Chareloi, Pennsylvania his family moved to Whitter, California after McCracken's father died when he was seven. He went to the California Institute of Arts, where he formed a strong friendship with [[Genndy Tartakovsky]] and Rob Renzetti (''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''). The friendship is evident in the cooperation between series. After graduating he got his start on ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]''. He created a cartoon called "Whoopass Stew," and the idea eventually became ''The Powerpuff Girls''.
He met and eventually married [[Lauren Faust]], who worked as producer and writer for ''Powerpuff Girls'' and ''Foster's Home''. There was also a short lived project on Cartoon Network he and Rob Renzetti created called [[Cartoonstitute]], which was supposed to be a [[Spiritual Successor]] to the [[What a Cartoon Show]] on TV, but it got put quietly on CN's video service instead. He left Cartoon Network in 2009, and is currently working independently on an idea called [http://craigmccracken.net/ Wander Over Yonder], [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-disney-animation-20120312,0,7335573.story which recently got picked up by the Disney Channel].
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