Top 10 Best Cartoon Writers

The Top Ten
1 Alex Hirsch Alexander Robert "Alex" Hirsch is an American animator, storyboard artist, voice actor, and television producer. He is best known as the creator of the Disney XD animated television series Gravity Falls, where he voiced some of the characters.

Alex is just plain awesome. He's created wonderful characters, has a great sense of humor, and managed to create a cartoon enjoyable for literally anyone.

2 Craig McCracken Craig McCracken is an American animator, director and producer. He is best known for creating the Emmy-winning animated series The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for Cartoon Network, as well as writing and storyboarding for Oscar's Oasis and Dexter's Laboratory in Kids' WB. His newest series, Wander Over Yonder, premiered on Disney Channel on August 16, 2013. He has been married... read more

He gave us the original Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Wander Over Yonder!

3 Stephen Hillenburg Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was an American cartoonist, animator, director, producer, writer, voice actor, and marine biologist who was best known for creating the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. He also contributed to Rocko's Modern Life as a director and producer. He passed away on November 26, 2018 due to complications from ALS.

Former marine biologist and creator of Nickelodeon's greatest legend: SpongeBob SquarePants!

He created a cartoon that would become well-known. Sadly, he passed away.

If only Stephen Hillenburg were still alive today, he could continue to make SpongeBob great.

4 Genndy Tartakovsky Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian American animator, director, writer and producer. He is best known for creating the Cartoon Network animated television series Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars, and co-creating Sym-Bionic Titan. In 2011, Tartakovsky joined Sony Pictures Animation, where he directed his feature film debut, Hotel Transylvania, and its sequel, Hotel Transylvania... read more

Gotta get back. Back to the past. Samurai Jack.

5 Lauren Faust Lauren Johanna Faust is an American animator, screenwriter, director, and producer, best known for developing Hasbro's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, as well as working frequently with her husband Craig McCracken.
6 J. G. Quintel
7 Butch Hartman Elmer Earl Hartman IV, better known as Butch Hartman, is an American animator, writer, director, producer, illustrator and actor, best known for creating the Nickelodeon shows The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Bunsen Is a Beast.
8 Chris Savino Christopher Mason "Chris" Savino (born October 2, 1971 in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American animator, writer, producer, director, and storyboard artist. He is best known as the creator of The Loud House on Nickelodeon.
9 Daron Nefcy
10 Daniel Chong
The Contenders
11 John R. Dilworth Jonathan "John" Robert Dilworth, a.k.a. "Dilly", is an American animator, director and actor. He is best known as the producer, director, writer, and creator of the animated television series Courage the Cowardly Dog.
12 Joseph Barbera
13 Dan Povenmire Daniel Kingsley "Dan" Povenmire is an American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and voice actor associated with several animated television series, best known as the co-creator of the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb in which he also voiced the show's villain, Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

There were hardly any bad episodes of Phineas and Ferb written, and it looks like Milo Murphy's Law will follow suit.

14 Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Rea Sugar is a Jewish American animator, composer and director. She is best known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network.

The mastermind and stellar songwriter behind Steven Universe. Need I say more?

This is the person behind some of Adventure Time's best moments.

When she quit Adventure Time, everything went down the drain.

15 Paul Tibbitt Paul Harrison Tibbitt is an American animator, television producer, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter, and voice actor, best known for working on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.
16 C.H. Greenblatt Carl Harvey "C. H." Greenblatt is an American cartoon screenwriter, producer, and storyboard artist. He has worked on the hit TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, and on the Cartoon Network's series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. He is best known as the creator of Chowder, as well as Harvey Beaks.

One of the best writers of SpongeBob. I love his writing and drawings in those episodes, although he did everyone's least favorite pre-movie episode, I'm with Stupid. I enjoyed every show he worked on except Fish Hooks. Chowder is good and is certainly the best show on Cartoon Network during its dark age, although it wasn't my favorite because of the flaws. Harvey Beaks is better.

An amazing writer/storyboard artist! He's the reason I want to become a writer/board artist myself in the future.

He did an amazing job with SpongeBob and Billy & Mandy. I always liked him. One of the best cartoonists ever.

17 Maxwell Atoms Maxwell Atoms is an American animator, screenwriter and voice actor. Atoms was best known as the creator of Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy franchise.
18 Matt Groening Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor best known for creating the famous television shows, The Simpsons and Futurama.

The guy who created The Simpsons. A well-known cartoon family watched by millions every year.

19 Jeff Swampy Marsh
20 Danny Antonucci Daniel Edward "Danny" Antonucci is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer. He is known for creating the Cartoon Network animated comedy series Ed, Edd n Eddy. He also created Lupo the Butcher, Cartoon Sushi, and The Brothers Grunt.
21 Kent Osborne
22 Aaron Springer Aaron Springer (born September 5, 1973) is an American cartoon director and storyboard artist. He is best known for his work on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Springer has collaborated with various animation veterans such as Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish, Rumen Petkov, Stephen Hillenburg and John Kricfalusi. He created numerous pilots for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim that,... read more

Amazing writer! He wrote Band Geeks, The Krusty Krab Training Video, Have You Seen This Snail, and even directed many Gravity Falls episodes. Sure, he's written some bad new SpongeBob episodes, but his season 2-3 gold definitely makes up for it.

23 Erik Wiese
24 Craig Bartlett Craig Michael Bartlett is an American animator best known for writing for Rugrats and creating the television series Hey Arnold! and Dinosaur Train. He also voiced various recurring characters in Hey Arnold!

I enjoy everything he's worked on.

25 Kaz

He's a great writer. I enjoyed his work on SpongeBob (seasons 3, 9, and present), Camp Lazlo (the whole run), and Phineas and Ferb (seasons 2-4). People should be happy that he's back on SpongeBob.

Another good SpongeBob writer. He wrote many season 3 episodes, and I'm glad he came back for seasons 9 and 10. He definitely improved the show.

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