Darrel Bowen

Darrel Bowen

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Prop designer Character designer Status: Active Number of episodes: 294 Seasons active: Season 19 - Present First short: Playdate with Destiny Most recent short: Rogue Not Quite One First episode: "Love, Springfieldian Style" Most recent episode: "Cremains of the Day" Movie: The Simpsons Movie Game: The Simpsons Game First book: The Simpsons Handbook Most recent book: Flanders' Book of Faith

Darrel Bowen, also credited as Darrell Bowen, is an animator. He currently serves as a prop designer for The Simpsons and has previously worked as a character designer.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production 2012 "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Nominated

Credits

Prop design

Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Homer the Whopper" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "MoneyBart" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "To Cur, with Love" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "YOLO" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "The Kid Is All Right" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Steal This Episode" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "The Winter of His Content" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" Episode – "Brick Like Me" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" Episode – "Opposites A-Frack" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "Every Man's Dream" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Puffless" Episode – "Halloween of Horror" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "Friends and Family" Episode – "The Town" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" Episode – "Trust but Clarify" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "Fatzcarraldo" Episode – "The Cad and the Hat" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Dogtown" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Whistler's Father" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Fears of a Clown" Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" Episode – "King Leer" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "Bart's Not Dead" Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Woo-Hoo Dunnit?" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" Episode – "Hail to the Teeth" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "Frinkcoin" Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two" Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" Episode – "The Way of the Dog" Episode – "I, Carumbus" Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "Three Dreams Denied" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Wad Goals" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?" Episode – "Manger Things" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." Episode – "The Last Barfighter" Episode – "The Star of the Backstage" Episode – "Bart's in Jail!" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" Episode – "The Wayz We Were" Episode – "Lisa's Belly" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)" Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers" Episode – "A Made Maggie" Episode – "The Longest Marge" Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid" Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" Episode – "Bart the Cool Kid" Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar" Episode – "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher" Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" Episode – "Marge the Meanie" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "One Angry Lisa" Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout" Episode – "The King of Nice" THOH – "Not It" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Episode – "From Beer to Paternity" Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa" Episode – "Game Done Changed" Episode – "Top Goon" Episode – "My Life as a Vlog" Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again" Episode – "Bartless" Episode – "Hostile Kirk Place" Episode – "Pin Gal" Episode – "Fan-ily Feud" Episode – "Write Off This Episode" Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars" Episode – "Clown V. Board of Education" Episode – "Homer's Crossing" Episode – "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" Episode – "McMansion & Wife" Episode – "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" Episode – "Iron Marge" Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life" Episode – "Ae Bonny Romance" Episode – "Murder, She Boat" Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing" Episode – "Frinkenstein's Monster" Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom" Episode – "Night of the Living Wage" Episode – "Cremains of the Day" Special – Planet of the Couches Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki Special – Feliz Navidad Special – Rogue Not Quite One

Character designer

• – The Simpsons Movie

• Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"

Character and prop design

• Video game – The Simpsons Game

Props

• Special – Playdate with Destiny

Character art by

• Book – The Simpsons Handbook

Contributing artist

• Book – The Book of Moe

• Book – Flanders' Book of Faith

External links

• Darrel Bowen at the Internet Movie Database
• Darrel Bowen at MobyGames

Character designers

Current character designers Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Sam Grinberg • Matt Groening • Dale Hendrickson • Eric S. Keyes • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Kevin M. Newman • Rob Oliver • Dane Romley • Sam Simon* • Tommy Tejeda • Reza Zabardast Former character designers Edwin E. Aguilar • Scott Alberts • Sean Applegate • Norman P. Auble • Timothy Bailey • Brad Bird • Darrel Bowen • Seth Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • Matthew Faughnan • Istvan Fellner • Hunilla Fodor • Frederick J. Gardner III • Lucas Gray • Dan Haskett • Ken Hayashi Jr • John Holmquist • Mark Howard • Richard Manginsay • Drew McPhail • Nath Milburn • Jennifer Moeller • Kevin N. Moore • Rich Moore • Shannon O'Connor • Ernesto Ochoa • Carlos Ortega • Phil Ortiz • Chuck Puntuvatana • John Rice • Thomas E. Richner • Matthew Schofield • Jiuwell Sunzhou • Joe Wack • José Zelaya Other character designers Ed Acosta • Mick Cassidy • Shannon Denton • K. Nakajima • Sharon Ross • David Silverman • Spiker Monster • Yasushi Takano • Noriyuki Yokoki

Prop designers

Current prop designers Darrel Bowen • Seth Cooper • John Krause • Kevin N. Moore • Jefferson R. Weekley Former prop designers Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Daniel Chiu • Jarod Daetwiler • Lance Falk • Matthew Faughnan • Lucas Gray • Heejin Han • Ken Harsha • Dale Hendrickson • Sam Ho • Trevor Johnson • Heejin Kim • Alexandra Kube • John MacFarlane • Richard Manginsay • Kevin M. Newman • Ernesto Ochoa • Mike Pettengill • John Rice • Tommy Tejeda • Bill Thyen • Joe Wack Other prop designers Lynna Blankenship • Liz Craig • Christy DeHoog • Lindse Fletcher • Nathan Gammill • Phillip Hartmann • Mark Mulgrew • Brent Noll • Gene Warren III