C. H. Greenblatt

C. H. Greenblatt
Greenblatt at the 2024 WonderCon
Born
Carl Harvey Greenblatt

1972 (age 53–54)
U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
OccupationsAnimator
Television writer
Voice actor
Writing career
Years active1992–present
Notable worksChowder
SpongeBob SquarePants
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Evil Con Carne
Harvey Beaks
Jellystone!
Websitechgreenblatt.tumblr.com

Carl Harvey Greenblatt (born 1972), known professionally as C.H. Greenblatt, is an American animator, television writer and voice actor. He is the creator of Cartoon Network's Chowder, Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks, and creator, developer, and executive producer of Jellystone!, an American animated series produced by Warner Bros. Animation for HBO Max based on Hanna-Barbera characters. He has also worked on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne, and Fish Hooks for Disney. His influences are reported to include the Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Jim Henson, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Matt Groening, Stephen Hillenburg and Akira Toriyama.[1]

Early life

Greenblatt grew up in Plano, Texas.[2] As a child, Greenblatt was a fan of cartoons and made several comics, including a comic called Zibbler. In high school, he took a commercial program that taught technical art and graphic design.[3] He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in advertising. He worked as a cartoonist at the school's newspaper alongside Korey Coleman.[2][4]

Career

While studying advertising, Greenblatt sent comic strips to syndicates as well as Ad Age magazine. After graduating, Greenblatt worked as an art director on several television commercials, including Chef Boyardee's Chef Jr. campaign.[5] He saw an ad from Nickelodeon on Animation Magazine and sent his portfolio to them. He later received a response and became a character designer. In 1998, he landed a position as an additional storyboard artist for SpongeBob SquarePants, before graduating to full-on writer and storyboard artist. From season 2 and 3 of SpongeBob he teamed up with Aaron Springer and later in season 3 he teamed up with Kaz. After finishing up on SpongeBob in 2005, Greenblatt became a storyboard artist on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy right after it and sister series were both split into their own shows after being together from 2001 to 2003 in Grim & Evil.

In 2007, Greenblatt began Chowder, an animated show that he created and executive produced for Cartoon Network.[6] 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 entitled Bad Seeds (later renamed Harvey Beaks).[7]

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.

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.[8][9] On October 29, 2019, the project was officially unveiled under the title of Jellystone!, described as a crossover of several Hanna-Barbera characters living in the titular town "where they can't help but make trouble for one another".[10]

Greenblatt also plays Fish Taco, one of three main characters in an animated YouTube series titled Mexiguin[11] 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 title Unnamed Pet Resort Project.[12] In June 2026, Greenblatt revealed that the project ended up not moving forward at Disney.[13]

In May 2026, Greenblatt revealed that in 2024, he had been asked by Cartoon Network to pitch a reboot of Chowder, titled Chowder: First Course, aimed at a younger audience, and would have involved the titular character, Panini, and Gorgonzola as students in culinary school. Unfortunately, the planned series was not greenlit, due to Cartoon Network not having enough money to afford it.[14][15][16][17][18]

In June 2026, DC Studios announced that Greenblatt was developing "Krypto" an animated series based on Krypto the Superdog with Warner Bros Animation.[19]

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 to be a fun experience and said that he was full of "weird energy".

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1999–2005, 2025 SpongeBob SquarePants Carl ("Selling Out") assistant storyboard artist, writer, storyboard artist, storyboard director
2003 Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? N/A writer, storyboard artist ("Safety Patrol" & "Popularity")
2003 Free for All N/A storyboard artist
2003–04 Evil Con Carne story, storyboard artist
2004–07 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Fred Fredburger, additional voices
2005 The X's N/A storyboard artist ("Photo Ops")
2007–10 Chowder Kimchi, Kiwi, Adult Chowder, Himself, additional voices creator, character designer, prop designer, executive producer, story writer, songwriter, storyboard artist
2010–14 Fish Hooks Chino director, story, writer, storyboard artist
2012 Deadman shorts N/A writer, storyboard artist, director, producer, character designer, color stylist, and prop designer
2015–17 Harvey Beaks Technobear (Pilot), Dade, Jeremy, additional voices creator, character designer, main title designer, prop designer, executive producer, staff writer, writer, storyboard artist, voice director, director
2019 Big City Greens Dentist voice actor
2021 Unnamed Pet Resort Project N/A creator[20]
2021–25 Jellystone! Boo-Boo Bear, Doggie Daddy, Peter Potamus, Benny the Ball, Yahooey, Drooper, Grape Ape,[21] Fred Fredburger developer, writer, character designer, director, executive producer
TBA Untitled animated Krypto series TBA Developer, writer, character designer, executive producer[19]

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2007 Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure Fred Fredburger, Pirate #4 Storyboard artist
The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door Fred Fredburger N/A
2008 Underfist
Hellboy II: The Golden Army N/A Special thanks
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Storyboard punch-up
2016 PINK: The Lighter Shade of Red Special thanks

Video games

Year Title Voice role
2006 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Fred Fredburger
2009 Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall Fred Fredburger, Kimchi
2011 Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion Fred Fredburger

Internet

Year Title Role Notes
2016 Cartoons VS Cancer Himself Podcast
RebelTaxi; Pizza Party Podcast
Nickelodeon Animation Podcast
2018–present Mexiguin Fish Taco[22] Voice

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Harvey Beaks Creator: C.H. Greenblatt | GIGA: GeekMagazine". March 26, 2015. Archived from the original on January 6, 2026. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Industry Professionals - C.H. Greenblatt". July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  3. ↑ Thill, Scott (March 27, 2015). "'Harvey Beaks' Creator C.H. Greenblatt on How to Break Into The Biz and Why Artists Should Post on Tumblr". www.cartoonbrew.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2025. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  4. ↑ "C.H. GREENBLATT INTERVIEW | Double Toasted". YouTube. July 30, 2021. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Nerd Armada: Chef Jr". March 2, 2006. Archived from the original on March 19, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  6. ↑ Liu, Ed (October 30, 2007). "Toon Zone Interviews C.H. Greenblatt on Crafting "Chowder"". Toon Zone. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
  7. ↑ Amidi, Amid (January 27, 2015). "Nick's Upcoming 'Bad Seeds' Renamed 'Harvey Beaks!'". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on September 3, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Nerd Armada". Nerd Armada. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Nerd Armada". Nerd Armada. Archived from the original on May 31, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  10. ↑ "'Looney Tunes' Update, Hanna-Barbera Series Set at HBO Max". The Hollywood Reporter. October 29, 2019. Archived from the original on October 30, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Mexiguin | Season 1 - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on January 6, 2023. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  12. ↑ "WebVoyage". Archived from the original on September 7, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  13. ↑ Maxwell Atoms (June 23, 2026). Billy & Mandy vs. C.H. Greenblatt - Cartoon Legend Spills The Tea All Over Cartoon Development!. Archived from the original on June 23, 2026. Retrieved June 25, 2026 – via YouTube.
  14. ↑ "C. H. Greenblatt on Instagram: "A while back, CN asked me to pitch them a reboot of Chowder for a slightly younger audience (for free of course). I re-imagined it so that instead of a catering company, Chowder went to a culinary school with Panini and Gorgonzola. All the other familiar faces are faculty there, but the stories focus more on the three kids getting into trouble. Sadly, CN said they had no money to make it, so it never went anywhere. I'll post some of the fun art I did for it here."". May 20, 2026.
  15. ↑ "C. H. Greenblatt on Instagram: "More development art from the Chowder reboot I was asked to pitch. Just some silly drawings of the three main kids. I hadn't drawn these characters in forever. For context, this was all done around 2024, after I had finished up on Jellystone."". May 21, 2026.
  16. ↑ "C. H. Greenblatt on Instagram: "More Chowder reboot art"". May 22, 2026.
  17. ↑ "C. H. Greenblatt on Instagram: "Another piece of development art for the series that never was."". May 23, 2026.
  18. ↑ "C. H. Greenblatt on Instagram: "Another piece of pitch art from the Chowder reboot that never was."". May 26, 2024.
  19. 1 2 Giraud, Kevin (June 25, 2026). "'Absolute Batman,' 'Krypto,' Anime DC Series 'Joker: Laugh Riot' Unveiled at First DC Studios, Warner Bros. Animation Joint Annecy Showcase". Variety. Archived from the original on June 25, 2026. Retrieved June 25, 2026.
  20. ↑ "U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System". publicrecords.copyright.gov. Archived from the original on September 6, 2025. Retrieved May 23, 2026.
  21. ↑ "Jellystone!: Hanna-Barbera Characters Return in HBO Max Original Animated Series". ComingSoon.net. June 24, 2021. Archived from the original on October 26, 2021. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  22. ↑ "Mexiguin (TV Series 2018– ) - IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on September 11, 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
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