Jim Reardon

Reardon attended the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, where one of his student projects, the satirical cartoon Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986), has become a cult classic through the likes of YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and later worked on Tiny Toon Adventures.

Reardon worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios for nearly a decade. Prior to that, he briefly supervised the storyboard department at Pixar and co-wrote the studio's ninth feature film WALL-E with Andrew Stanton, which was released on June 27, 2008.^[2] He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards.^[3]

• Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986) – director
• Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987–88) – writer, storyboard artist, director
• Christmas in Tattertown (1988) – writer, layout artist
• The Butter Battle Book (1989) - storyboard artist
• Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) – writer
• The Simpsons (1990–2004) – director (seasons 2–15), supervising director (seasons 9–15), storyboard consultant (seasons 16–20)
  • List of The Simpsons episodes
    • "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
    • "Bart's Dog Gets an "F""
    • "Brush with Greatness"
    • "When Flanders Failed"
    • "Treehouse of Horror II"
    • "Saturdays of Thunder"
    • "Homer at the Bat"
    • "Dog of Death"
    • "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
    • "Homer the Heretic"
    • "Mr. Plow"
    • "Duffless"
    • "Marge in Chains"
    • "Homer Goes to College"
    • "Homer the Vigilante"
    • "Bart Gets an Elephant"
    • "Bart of Darkness"
    • "Treehouse of Horror V"
    • "Homer the Great"
    • "Lisa's Wedding"
    • "Lemon of Troy"
    • "King-Size Homer"
    • "Bart the Fink"
    • "22 Short Films About Springfield"
    • "Burns, Baby Burns"
    • "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
    • "My Sister, My Sitter"
    • "Homer's Enemy"
    • "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
    • "Trash of the Titans"
    • "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"
    • "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
    • "Treehouse of Horror XII"
    • "Large Marge"
    • "Simple Simpson"
• WALL-E (2008) – screenwriter, story supervisor
• Wreck-It Ralph (2012) – writer, head of story^[4]
• Zootopia (2016) – writer, co-head of story
• Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) – characters, writer, director of story

• Jim Reardon at IMDb
• Video of Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown