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'''John Achenbach''' (born October 12, 1964) is an American animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and has also served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist.
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'''John Achenbach''' (born October 12, 1964) is an American animator. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and previously served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist for ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Background layout artist ===
 
=== Background layout artist ===
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Bart Carny}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|The Joy of Sect}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
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|E13=yes
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|E25=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season10A
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|E5=yes
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}}
 +
{{TC}}
  
 
=== Background layout supervisor ===
 
=== Background layout supervisor ===
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
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{{Season9A
*{{ep|Girly Edition}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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}}
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{{Season10A
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|E10=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Character designer ===
 
=== Character designer ===
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=== Character layout ===
 
=== Character layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Eight Misbehavin'}}
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{{Season10A
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Bart to the Future}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
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{{Season11A
*{{ep|HOMЯ}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Pokey Mom}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Tennis the Menace}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Simpson Safari}}
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}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII}}
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{{Season12A
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Lastest Gun in the West}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
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}}
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
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{{Season13A
*{{ep|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
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|E12=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Today I Am a Clown}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
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|E21=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV}}
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}}
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
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{{Season14A
*{{ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Dangerous Curves}}
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|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season15A
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|E1=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season16A
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|E1=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season20A
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Storyboard revisions ===
 
=== Storyboard revisions ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|The Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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{{Season16A
*{{ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
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|E17=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
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}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|See Homer Run}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Last of the Red Hat Mamas}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'owhere}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Million-Dollar Abie}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
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|E16=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVII}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Wife Aquatic}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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}}
*{{ep|Little Big Girl}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Homerazzi}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|The Devil Wears Nada}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Kid Is All Right}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues}}
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}}
*{{ep|Steal This Episode}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|Specs and the City}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
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}}
*{{ep|Diggs}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Winter of His Content}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The War of Art}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
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}}
*{{ep|Luca$}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|Days of Future Future}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting}}
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}}
*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Yellow Badge of Cowardge}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
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}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
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{{Season25A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Sky Police}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Waiting for Duffman}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Peeping Mom}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Kids Are All Fight}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Let's Go Fly a Coot}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Bull-E}}
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}}
*{{ep|Mathlete's Feat}}
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{{Season26A
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|'Cue Detective}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Puffless}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Halloween of Horror}}
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|E4=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVI}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Friend with Benefit}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Lisa with an "S"}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Paths of Glory}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Barthood}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Girl Code}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Much Apu About Something}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Gal of Constant Sorrow}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Lisa the Veterinarian}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|The Marge-ian Chronicles}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Burns Cage}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|How Lisa Got Her Marge Back}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Fland Canyon}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|To Courier with Love}}
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}}
*{{ep|Simprovised}}
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{{Season27A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Orange Is the New Yellow}}
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{{Season28A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus}}
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{{Season29A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|Friends and Family}}
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{{Season30A|all=yes}}
*{{ep|The Town}}
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{{Season31A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVII}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Trust But Clarify}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|There Will Be Buds}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Havana Wild Weekend}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Dad Behavior}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Last Traction Hero}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|The Nightmare After Krustmas}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Pork and Burns}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part One}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|The Great Phatsby: Part Two}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Fatzcarraldo}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|The Cad and the Hat}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Kamp Krustier}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|22 for 30}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|A Father's Watch}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Caper Chase}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Moho House}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Dogtown}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|The Serfsons}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Springfield Splendor}}
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}}
*{{ep|Whistler's Father}}
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{{Season32A|all=yes}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVIII}}
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{{Season33A
*{{ep|Grampy Can Ya Hear Me}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Singin' in the Lane}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Gone Boy}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Haw-Haw Land}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Frink Gets Testy}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Homer Is Where the Art Isn't}}
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}}
*{{ep|3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage}}
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{{Season35A
*{{ep|Fears of a Clown}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|No Good Read Goes Unpunished}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|King Leer}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Lisa Gets the Blues}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Forgive and Regret}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Left Behind}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder}}
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|E17=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season36A
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|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Couch gag storyboard ===
 
=== Couch gag storyboard ===
*{{ep|Homer's Paternity Coot}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'owhere}}
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{{Season17A
*{{ep|The Seemingly Never-Ending Story}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
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|E11=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season18A
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|E5=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
  
 
=== Story artist ===
 
=== Story artist ===
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=== Storyboard ===
 
=== Storyboard ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Apocalypse Cow}}
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{{Season18A
*{{ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
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}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
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{{Season19A
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster}}
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}}
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
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{{Season20A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Thursdays with Abie}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
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}}
*{{ep|Moe Letter Blues}}
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{{Season21A
*{{ep|The Bob Next Door}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Fight Before Christmas}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Flaming Moe}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|The Real Housewives of Fat Tony}}
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}}
*{{ep|At Long Last Leave}}
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{{Season22A
*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Paths of Glory}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Barthood}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4}}
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E19=yes
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}}
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{{Season23A
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|E14=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season27A
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|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E13=yes
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}}
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{{Season35A
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|E13=yes
 +
}}
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{{SpecialsA
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|Bowl=yes
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|StarWars=yes
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|May12th=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
=== Animatic layout ===
 
=== Animatic layout ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|The Great Simpsina}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
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{{Season22A
*{{ep|500 Keys}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
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|E20=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
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}}
*{{ep|The Book Job}}
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{{Season23A
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Holidays of Future Passed}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|At Long Last Leave}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|How I Wet Your Mother}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Ned 'N' Edna's Blend}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
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|E19=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Adventures in Baby-Getting}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Gone Abie Gone}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Penny-Wiseguys}}
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}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
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{{Season24A
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|To Cur, with Love}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|Homer Goes to Prep School}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|A Test Before Trying}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Changing of the Guardian}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Hardly Kirk-ing}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Dark Knight Court}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|What Animated Women Want}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|The Fabulous Faker Boy}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Dangers on a Train}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|The Saga of Carl}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Homerland}}
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|E17=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
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|E19=yes
*{{ep|YOLO}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Labor Pains}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
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}}
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{{Season25A
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|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
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|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
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|E20=yes
 +
}}
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{{Season26A
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|E10=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
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=== Additional storyboards ===
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*{{ep|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds}}
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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Revision as of 12:34, November 12, 2024

John Achenbach
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Background layout supervisor
Character layout artist
Storyboard revisionist
Storyboard artist
Animatic layout
Birth date: October 12, 1964 (1964-10-12) (age 60)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 341
Seasons active: Season 9 - 33, 35 - Present
First short: The Force Awakens from Its Nap
Most recent short: May the 12th Be with You
First episode: "Bart Star"
Most recent episode: "Women in Shorts"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie


John Achenbach (born October 12, 1964) is an American animator. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and previously served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist for The Simpsons.

Credits

Background layout artist

Background layout supervisor

Character designer

Character layout

Storyboard revisions

Couch gag storyboard

Story artist

Storyboard

Animatic layout

Additional storyboards

External links