Chris Reccardi

Chris Reccardi Nationality: American Gender: Male Born: Christopher Joseph Reccardi November 24, 1964 New York City, U.S. Died: May 2, 2019 (aged 54) Ventura, California, U.S. Occupation: Animator Writer Artist Director Producer Composer Musician Years active: 1988–2019 Notable works: The Ren & Stimpy Show The Powerpuff Girls (1998) SpongeBob SquarePants Tiny Toon Adventures Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! Regular Show Secret Mountain Fort Awesome The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

Christopher Joseph Reccardi (November 24, 1964 – May 2, 2019) was an American cartoon director, graphic designer, animator, character designer, musician, producer, writer and storyboard artist. He worked on numerous animated television series, including The Ren & Stimpy Show, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls (1998), and Tiny Toon Adventures, and had directing duties on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! and SpongeBob SquarePants. He was also the supervising producer for the first season of Regular Show and creative director for the short-lived Secret Mountain Fort Awesome.

Why He Rocks

1. He worked in various great and awesome cartoons and animated films like:
   • The Ren & Stimpy Show
   • The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
   • Samurai Jack
   • SpongeBob SquarePants
   • Dexter's Laboratory
   • Tiny Toon Adventures
   • Regular Show
   • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
   • Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
   • Monsters vs. Aliens
   • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
   • Megamind
   • Storks
   • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
   • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
   • The New Woody Woodpecker Show
   • The Simpsons
   • The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
   • The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
   • Cow and Chicken
   • My Life as a Teenage Robot
   • Chowder
   • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
   • Wander Over Yonder
   • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
   • Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
   • Dilbert
   • Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter
2. He did great songs, like this one from Ren & Stimpy's episode, Hermit Ren. Also along with Jim Smith and Scott Huml at Der Screamin' Lenderhosen band, composed the theme song of Ren & Stimpy, Dog Pound Hop, the show's end theme, Big House Blues and wrote the famous Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy song along with John Kricfalusi and Charlie Brissette.
   • The opening theme he did on The Modifyers looks magnificent and very catchy, with the tune of the 60s neo-baroque songs.
3. The storyboards he did to the cartoons and animated films he worked on are pretty cool.
4. His paintings are very beautiful and expressive. In fact, like his wife Lynne Naylor, his paintings are in various galleries around the world.
5. His illustrations are great as well, the illustrations he did to the Pat the Stimpy: The Nitty Gritty Touchy Smelly Book is an example.
6. He created good pilots like IMP, inc. and Meddlen Meadows to Cartoon Network and of course, The Modifyers to Nickelodeon, along with his wife, Lynne Naylor.
7. He was a nice guy and also funny to everyone, like when he read a Golden Book of John Kricfalusi to him with a aloud and funny voice.

The Only Bad Quality

1. The fact that he worked on wonderful cartoons and animated films, he also worked on bad cartoons and animated movies like The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, despite doing a great job on these productions no matter how terrible they were.

Trivia

• He was the husband of the animator Lynne Naylor, between 1994 until his sad death in 2019.
• In the recording of the episode "Hermit Ren", Chris Reccardi accidentally pushed Billy West too far, almost like John Kricfalusi did with Billy West back at Spümcø.
• Like his wife Lynne Naylor, he was also mistakenly known as Chris Riccardi, with an i instead of e.

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