Genndy Tartakovsky

Gennady Borisovich "Genndy" Tartakovsky is a Russian-born American animator, screenwriter, film producer, and director. He is best known as the creator of various animated television series on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, including Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, Primal, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. Growing up, he mainly loved to watch classic cartoons, inspired by Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Max Fleischer, Osamu Tezuka, Jack Kirby, and Harvey Kurtzman as well as Hanna-Barbera.