Carl Harvey Greenblatt (born June 17, 1972) is an American animator, storyboard artist, voice actor, writer, producer and director. He has worked on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and on Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne. He is the creator of Cartoon Network's Chowder, Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks, and creator and executive producer of Jellystone!, a Hanna-Barbera animated series for HBO Max produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

Greenblatt has taken inspiration for his work from Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss, and Richard Scarry.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Legacy
• 4 Filmography
  • 4.1 Television
  • 4.2 Film
  • 4.3 Video games
  • 4.4 Internet
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life

He was born in Yelm, Washington and raised in a Jewish family in Plano, Texas and Tacoma, Washington. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in advertising. He was cl*mates with future film critic Korey Coleman.

Career

He got his first job in the animation industry working as an additional storyboard artist for SpongeBob SquarePants.

In 2007, Greenblatt began Chowder, an animated show that he created and executive produced for Cartoon Network. Greenblatt collaborated with Maxwell Atoms on his new Billy & Mandy spin-off Halloween special called Underfist, in which he reprised his role as Fred Fredburger. He announced on his blog that Nickelodeon has given the go-ahead for an 11-minute pilot for a new show created by him en*led Bad Seeds (later renamed Harvey Beaks).

He announced in September 2013 that the show has since been picked up for 26 11-minute episodes, with production commencing at the beginning of 2014. He has also directed the Deadman shorts for DC Nation. From season 2 and 3 of SpongeBob he teamed up with Aaron Springer and later in season 3 he teamed up with Kaz.

On April 5, 2018, Greenblatt announced that he had now been employed by Warner Bros. Animation, adding that he has been developing "something fun" for the studio but could not yet disclose anything else about it. On October 29, 2019, the project was officially unveiled with the *le of Jellystone!, described as a crossover of several Hanna-Barbera characters living in the *ular town "where they can't help but make trouble for one another".

Greenblatt also plays Fish Taco, one of three main characters in an animated YouTube series *led Mexiguin since 2018. He helps mentor show creator, Joe Kozdra, in animation and creative writing alongside his voice acting contributions.

On January 29, 2021, a new Greenblatt project was registered for Disney Television Animation under the *le Unnamed Pet Resort Project

Legacy

Scott Thill of Cartoon Brew praised Greenblatt as one of the most influential comedy writers with innovative comedic elements. Cartoon Brew also said Greenblatt "has logged a decade-and-a-half across studios and shows". James Poniewozik of Time credited Greenblatt as defining SpongeBob's comedic style. Greenblatt was a storyboard artist and one of the writers of the SpongeBob episode "Band Geeks", considered by many to be the best episode of the entire series. SpongeBob writer Kaz recalled writing with Greenblatt fun and said he was full with "weird energy".

Filmography

Television

Film

Video games

Internet

References

External links

• C. H. Greenblatt at IMDb
• C. H. Greenblatt's current blog on Tumblr
• C. H. Greenblatt's original blog, Nerd Armada
• Frederator Studio's interview with Greenblatt