Jabu Henderson

Jabu Henderson

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout artist Background designer Status: Active Number of episodes: 281 Seasons active: Season 11 - Present First short: The Longest Daycare Most recent short: Welcome to the Club First episode: "Eight Misbehavin'" Most recent episode: "Night of the Living Wage"

Jabu Henderson is an animator. He currently serves as a background designer for The Simpsons and has previously served as a background layout artist and CG artist and animator.

Credits

Background layout

Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)" Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" Episode – "Today I Am a Clown" Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" Episode – "Midnight Rx" Episode – "Mommie Beerest" Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "American History X-cellent" 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 – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Replaceable You" 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 – "The D'oh-cial Network" 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" Episode – "Moonshine River" 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 – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "Puffless" Episode – "Halloween of Horror" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" ("Simpsons Time" couch gag)

Background layout supervisor

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"

• Episode – "There's Something About Marrying"

Lead background layout

Episode – "A Star Is Torn" Episode – "See Homer Run" Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" Episode – "Husbands and Knives" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "The Winter of His Content"

Background design

Episode – "Yokel Chords" Episode – "The Homer of Seville" Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" Episode – "Pranks and Greens" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" 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 – "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 – "A Father's Watch" 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 – "Haw-Haw Land" 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 – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" 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 – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" 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 – "Livin La Pura Vida" 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 – "Bart the Bad Guy" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" Episode – "Undercover Burns" Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" 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 – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion" 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 – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" Episode – "Meat Is Murder" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "One Angry Lisa" Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout" Episode – "The King of Nice" THOH – "Not It" 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 – "The Many Saints of Springfield" 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 – "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 – "Night of the Living Wage" Special – The Longest Daycare Special – Planet of the Couches Special – Welcome to the Club

CG animation

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
• Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"

CG artist

• Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"

• Episode – "Homer the Whopper"

Background layout/design

• Special – Playdate with Destiny

• Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

External links

• Jabu Henderson at the Internet Movie Database

Background designers

Current background designers Ben Anderson • Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Jarod Daetwiler • Jabu Henderson • TJ Kim • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Steve Pilapil • Charles Ragins • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Lance Wilder • Phillip O. Yeo Former background designers Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Seth Cooper • Ralph Delgado • Alexander C. Dilts • Edgar Duncan • Tria Ellison • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Ernesto Escobar • Dillon Froelich • Sarah Frost • Ed Ghertner • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Sam Ho • Gary Hoffman • Trevor Johnson • John Krause • Christian Lignan • John Liu • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Walter Mancia • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Kevin N. Moore • Phil Ortiz • John Pattison • Mike Pettengill • Javier Pineda • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • Dean Scammahorn • George Taylor • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Ben Anderson • Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Dillon Froelich • Sam Ho • Drew Johnson • Heejin Kim • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Doug Walker • Phillip O. Yeo Former background layout artists John Achenbach • Young Baek • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Sue Bielenberg • Lynna Blankenship • Jennifer Bogartz • Chris Bolden • Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Mark Bykov • Mike Camarillo • Paul Castro • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Chad E. Cooper • Alfred "Tops" Cruz • Carol Delmindo Datuin • Peter J. DeLuca • Claude Denis • Alexander C. Dilts • Arnold Doong • Edgar Duncan • Eric Dunn • Mark Ervin • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Sarah Frost • Tricia Garcia • Monette Goldman • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Jake Hempe • Jabu Henderson • Gary Hoffman • Jeremy Horn • Mark Howard • Trevor Johnson • Dave S. Karoll • Atanas Karpelas • Kui Yong Kim • TJ Kim • Young Kim • John Krause • Nancy Kruse • John Lindauer • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • John Mathot • Pete Michels • Larry Miravalles • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Carlos Nieto III • John Pattison • Debbie Peterson • Mike Frank Polcino • Cameron Porter • Charles Ragins • Becca Ramos • Jerry Richardson • Denis Rychlick • Rick Salonga • Dean Scammahorn • Peter Shin • Cole Shortt • Steve Smith • Chad Stewart • Tuck Tucker • Scott Uehara • Don Vanderbeek • Cliff Voorhees • Jefferson R. Weekley • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background layout artists James P. Alles • Galina Budkin • Edgar Carlos • Derek Carter • Namsuk Cho • Randol Eagles • Natalie Franscioni Karp • Rodel Gravo • Lam Hoang • Cynthia Ignacio • Arlan Jewell • Hyung-Ki Kim • Yeon-Ju Kim • Alex J. Lee • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Johnathan Pyun • Gerald Clifford Rey • Choun-Wung Son • Thomas Starnes • Allen Tam • Danny Taverna • Kevyn L. Wallace • Wallace Williamson • Chad Woods • Chung Sup Yoon • Jennifer Yuan

CG artists and animators

Current CG artists Brent M. Bowen • Kyle Jaynes Former CG artists William Arance • Chad Cole • James Davidson • Harry Eisenstein • Steven Fahey • Peter Gend • Ed Ghertner • Jabu Henderson • Adam Klein • Benjamin Sakai • Megumi Shimizu • Carol VanHook Other CG artists Kevin Adams • Stuart Allan • Arc Productions • Kevin Carney • Nisanth Jl • Don Kim • Jon Kim Krummell II • Hock Lian Law • Harsh Mishra • Mike Montague • Rahul Nagpal • Jeevanand Nk • Mark Orme • Nagraj B P • Shakeer P • Veerendra Patil • Manu Pk • Venky Raman • Prashant Pralhad Sawant • Viru Sohal • Chris Stover • Steve Tavernia • Mythravarun Vepakomma • Grant Vicklund • Eric Whited • Charlie Winter • Xentrix Studios