History Creator / RebeccaSugar

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, musician, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Primetime Emmy Award]]. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmys. She also created, wrote and illustrated the ScienceFiction {{dramedy}} comic ''ComicBook/PugDavis''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Story writer, storyboard artist, storyboard revisionist, songwriter, voice of Marceline's mother

** Years before working on family friendly animation, she drew Rule34 art of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', the former of which she drew as a teenager.

In 2023, Sugar announced the release of her first collection of songs ''Spiral Bound'', due for November that year.

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Primetime Emmy Award]]. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmys. She also created, wrote and illustrated the ScienceFiction {{dramedy}} comic ''ComicBook/PugDavis''.

She has accounts on [[https://twitter.com/rebeccasugar Twitter]], [[https://www.instagram.com/rebeccasugar Instagram]], and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e4gmx/i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven_universe_and Reddit]], the lattermost serving as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.

She also worked with Creator/GenndyTartakovsky as a storyboard artist on ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''. Tartakovsky directed the animation for the Steven Universe pilot, which was used to pitch the show to Cartoon Network.

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Primetime Emmy Award]]. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmys. She aso created, wrote and illustrated the ScienceFiction {{dramedy}} comic ''ComicBook/PugDavis''. She has her own [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e4gmx/i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven_universe_and Reddit account]] which serves as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a Primetime Emmy Award. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmy Awards. She created, wrote and illustrated the ScienceFiction {{dramedy}}, ''ComicBook/PugDavis''. She has her own [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e4gmx/i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven_universe_and Reddit account]] which serves as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.

Sugar is a proud alumnus of The School of Visual Arts, her thesis film for which, ''Singles'', can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgue81LVZ4E here]]: it was here that she met her longtime professional collaborator Creator/IanJonesQuartey; they have also been in a romantic relationship since 2008, and got married on December 4, 2019.

-->-- '''Sugar''' summing up the mission statement of her entire career at San Diego Comic-Con 2016

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a Primetime Emmy Award. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmy Awards. She created, wrote and illustrated the SciFi {{dramedy}}, ''ComicBook/PugDavis''. She has her own [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e4gmx/i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven_universe_and Reddit account]] which serves as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.

!!Rebecca Sugar's work contains examples of the following tropes:

* CreatorCouple: With Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' and former supervising director/co-executive producer on ''Steven Universe''. Both met as animation students in New York and have been living together since 2008, often collaborating on each other's projects.
** HappilyMarried: They would eventually [[https://mobile.twitter.com/ianjq/status/1202694027604180992?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fs9e.github.io%2fiframe%2f2%2ftwitter.min.html%231202694027604180992 marry]] at the end of 2019.
* HeAlsoDid: Designed the album cover for Estelle's ''True Romance.'' Estelle, of course, plays [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Garnet]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Creator, executive producer, storyline writer, storyboard artist, songwriter

->''"These things have so much to do with who you are, and there’s this idea that these are themes that should not be shared with kids, but everyone shares stories about love and attraction with kids. So many stories for kids are about love, and it really makes a difference to hear stories about how someone like you can be loved and if you don’t hear those stories it will change who you are. It’s very important to me that we speak to kids about consent and we speak to kids about identity and that we speak to kids about so much. I want to feel like I exist and I want everyone else who wants to feel that way to feel that way too."''
-->-- '''Sugar''' summing up the mission statement of her entire career.

->''These things have so much to do with who you are, and there’s this idea that these are themes that should not be shared with kids, but everyone shares stories about love and attraction with kids. So many stories for kids are about love, and it really makes a difference to hear stories about how someone like you can be loved and if you don’t hear those stories it will change who you are. It’s very important to me that we speak to kids about consent and we speak to kids about identity and that we speak to kids about so much. I want to feel like I exist and I want everyone else who wants to feel that way to feel that way too.''
-->--'''Rebecca Sugar summing up the mission statement of her entire career.'''

In 2016 she came out as bisexual, and in 2018 clarified further that she identifies as non-binary, saying that she accepts the use of both 'she/her' and 'they/them'.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Wrote and performed the song 'It's Our Special Time of Year' for "Recap/AmphibiaS3E16FroggyLittleChristmas"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Wrote and performed the song 'It's Our Special Time of Year' for 'Froggy Little Christmas'

* ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'': Wrote and performed the song 'It's Our Special Time of Year' for 'Froggy Little Christmas'

** When she was 22, she was assaulted but she managed to got away. At first she thought that nothing happened since she escaped, until she started to have serious panic attacks. She admits that in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', Steven's Pink State and [[BodyHorror his random swelling]] are based on her feelings of anxiety and panic attacks as result of her trauma.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: As a child, Rebecca forgot her stuffed bunny in her garden and found it half a year later with its stomach faded as it was bleached by the sun. This anecdote inspired the song ''[[Recap/AdventureTimeS7E7EverythingStays Everything Stays]]'' for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', and Spinel's backstory and song "Drift Away" for ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie''.

* UsefulNotes/{{Bisexual}}: And she’s proud of it.

** When she was 22, she was assaulted but she managed to got away. At first she thought that nothing happened since she escaped, until she started to have serious panic attacks. She admits that in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' Steven's Pink State and [[BodyHorror his random swelling]] are based on her feelings of anxiety and panic attacks as result of her trauma.

* {{Bisexual}}: And she’s proud of it.

Sugar is a proud alumnus of The School of Visual Arts, her thesis film for which, ''Singles'', can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgue81LVZ4E here]]: it was here that she met her longtime professional collaborator Ian Jones-Quartey; they have also been in a romantic relationship since 2008, and got married on December 4, 2019.

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a Primetime Emmy Award. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmy Awards. She created, wrote and illustrated the SciFi {{dramedy}}, ''ComicBook/PugDavis''. She has her own [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e4gmx/i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven_universe_and Reddit account]] which serves as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.

Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an animator, writer, composer, comic book artist, and director, best known for creating the Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', for which she has earned a Primetime Emmy Award. She previously worked as a storyboard artist, writer, and composer for ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', for which she earned two Primetime Emmy Awards. She created, wrote and illustrated the SciFi {{dramedy}}, ''ComicBook/PugDavis''. She has her own [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e4gmx/i_am_rebecca_sugar_creator_of_steven_universe_and Reddit account]] which serves as a thorough breakdown of her thoughts and anecdotes regarding her various works.