Congratulations to the crew of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends!   Our episode “Destination Imagination” took home the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More.)

Congratulations to the entire, amazing Foster’s crew!  I miss you all!

Over and out,

Mother Earth

The awesome Madame Foster/Emmy illustration by the incredible Ben Balistreri, who has previously won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement for his character design work on Foster’s.  Check out his blog where he has posted work he did on Destination Imagination.

Tune into Cartoon Network tomorrow for the Powerpuff Girls Marathon!!   PPG has not aired on CN since the 10th anniversary earlier this year, and it wasn’t on for, I think, YEARS before that.  Interestingly, they’re kicking off with the Powerpuff Girls Movie, which I was the co-writer (among many other things) on.  The movie didn’t do so hot in theaters when it was released.  There has been a lot of speculation as to why, some blame the lack-luster marketing, some blame the fierce competition it was released against (Men In Black II,) some call out a reluctance of the show’s male fans to be seen watching a “girls’ movie,” some say the movie was too violent, and some say it was just wasn’t that good.  When all was said and done, my husband, creator Craig McCracken, wished we had focused more on comedy and less on the super-hero side of things, but every time I watch it again, I can’t help but feel proud.  With a small budget and an accelerated schedule, I think the crew did a fantastic job.

If you haven’t seen it, check it out tomorrow and share your thoughts!  Here’s the schedule:

11:00AM The Powerpuff Girls Movie
12:30 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Just Another Manic Mojo; Mime for a Change”
1:00 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Bubble-Vicious; The Bare Facts”
1:30 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “The Powerpuff Girls’ Best Rainy-Day Adventure Ever; Just Desserts”
2:00 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Meet the Beat Alls; Moral Decay”
2:30 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Three Girls and a Monster; Monkey See, Doggy Two”
3:00 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “The Rowdyruff Boys”
3:30 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Beat Your Greens; Down ‘n’ Dirty”
4:00 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Boogie Frights; Abra-Cadaver”
4:30 PM The Powerpuff Girls – “Uh Oh … Dynamo”

Over and out,

Mother Earth

Make sure to tune in to Cartoon Network tonight and check out the PREMIERE of the new special 10th anniversary special episode “The Powerpuff Girls Rule!” written and storyboarded entirely by series creator (and my hubby) Craig McCracken.

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Heard about the Cartoonstitute at Cartoon Network yet?

“Rob Sorcher, Cartoon Net’s newly appointed chief content officer, is spearheading a development initiative they’ve dubbed the “Cartoonstitute.” Sorcher (pictured left) wants to get a bunch of original development in the works pronto (insert a Hanna-Barbera zoink and pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat sound of running bare feet here), and so he’s carving out a space with the Burbank-based Cartoon Studios facility for an artists colony that he hopes will harvest funny fruit in the near future.

Cartoonstitute will be run by two veteran Cartoon Net producers, Craig McCracken, of “Powerpuff Girls” and ‘Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” fame, and Rob Renzetti (“My Life as a Teenage Robot”). Sorcher aims to put six artists to work full-time on pilots and short segments for the channel immediately, under the guidance of McCracken and Renzetti. As many as 30 more artists — some already in-house at Cartoon, some new to the toon net tent — will be brought in to pitch in and/or develop their own ideas at any given time, particularly when they’re on production hiatus from other Cartoon Net shows.”

This is why it’s a good idea:

“Putting the initiative in the hands of artists was important because they’ll be able to speak to and work with other ink- and paint- and CG-stained wretches in a way that no executive ever could. One thing Sorcher’s learned is that in many cases, a cartoon character needs to be developed and refined on its own, before the many other elements of a show are determined.”

Read the whole article here.

BTW— I thought up that name

Over and out,
Mother Earth