While at Cal Arts in 1986, Jim Reardon first made a student film entitled, "Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown". The film became a cult classic and gained revived interest through You Tube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on the 1987-88 cartoon series "Mighty Mouse - The New Adventures". Afterwards, he wrote many episodes for the first season of "Tiny Toon Adventures". In 1990 he was hired as an animation director on "The Simpsons" and he has served as supervising director on the series for many years. He left the staff to work on the Pixar film, WALL-E.
Credited Episodes
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
- Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
- Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
- Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror II"
- Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
- Episode – "Dog of Death"
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
- Episode – "Mr. Plow"
- Episode – "Duffless"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
- Episode – "Homer the Vigilante"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant"
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror V"
- Episode – "Homer the Great"
- Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
- Episode – "King-Size Homer"
- Episode – "Bart the Fink"
- Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
- Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
- Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans"
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
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Current directors | |||
Bob Anderson | Mike B. Anderson | Matthew Faughnan | Mark Kirkland | Lance Kramer | Nancy Kruse | Michael Marcantel | Chris Clements | Steven Dean Moore | Matthew Nastuk | Raymond S. Persi | Michael Polcino | Chuck Sheetz | Ralph Sosa | Rob Oliver | |||
Former directors | |||
Neil Affleck | Wes Archer | Carlos Baeza | Brad Bird | Mark Ervin | Jen Kamerman | Jeffrey Lynch | Lauren MacMullan | Pete Michels | Rich Moore | Dominic Polcino | Jim Reardon | Swinton O. Scott III | Alan Smart | Susie Dietter | Shaun Cashman | David Silverman | Gregg Vanzo | |||
Other animation staff | |||
Anthony Bell | Gábor Csupó | Bill Kopp | Christian Roman | Eric Stefani | Lance Wilder | Craig Clark | |||
Animation studios | |||
Klasky-Csupo, Inc. | Film Roman | AKOM | Anivision | Rough Draft Studios | USAnimation | Toonzone Entertainment |