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Jeffrey A. Mertz

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Background designer
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	170
Seasons active:	Season 25 - Present
First short:	The Good, the Bart, and the Loki
Most recent short:	Feliz Navidad
First episode:	"Diggs"
Most recent episode:	"Top Goon"

Jeffrey A. Mertz is an animator. He currently serves as a background designer for The Simpsons. He has also worked for Futurama, Family Guy and Rick and Morty.

Credits

Background design

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 – "Days of Future Future"
Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"

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 – "Simpsorama"
Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
Episode – "Covercraft"
Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"

Episode – "Bart's New Friend"
Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth"
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "My Fare Lady"

Episode – "Every Man's Dream"

Episode – "Lisa with an "S""
Episode – "'Paths of Glory"

Episode – "Barthood"
Episode – "The Girl Code"
Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"
Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"

Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"
Episode – "Fland Canyon"

Episode – "The Town"

Episode – "Trust but Clarify"
Episode – "There Will Be Buds"

Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"

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 – "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 – "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 – "Left Behind"
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 – "From Russia Without Love"
Episode – "Werking Mom"
Episode – "Krusty the Clown"

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 – "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 – "The Fat Blue Line"

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 – "Highway to Well"
Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One"
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"

Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
Episode – "Diary Queen"

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 – "Lisa's Belly"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)"

Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"
Episode – "A Made Maggie"
Episode – "The Longest Marge"
Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid"
Episode – "Boyz N the Highlands"
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 – "Step Brother from the Same Planet"
Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa"
Episode – "Game Done Changed"
Episode – "Top Goon"

Special – When Billie Met Lisa

Special – Feliz Navidad

BG layout/design

Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki

External links

Jeffrey A. Mertz at the Internet Movie Database
Jeffrey A. Mertz at Twitter
Official site

Background designers

view • talk • edit • past 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

view • talk • edit • past 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

view • talk • edit • past 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

view • talk • edit • past 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

view • talk • edit • past 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

view • talk • edit • past 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