Mark "Thurop" Van Orman is the creator of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and has also been a storyboard artist on other cartoons, most notably the Cartoon Network Emmy award-winning show The Powerpuff Girls and Camp Lazlo. Thurop has become well known for being extremely nice to his fans, often conversing with them on his Myspace and 'favoriting' fanart, updating his journal and gallery with information on the show and occasionally filling fans in on fun stuff happening in his personal life on deviantArt