[1] Johns began his career in the film industry by colorizing classic black-and-white movies in the late 1980s.
[1][2] Groening also gave Johns a prominent production role on the 1999 Christmas television special, Olive, the Other Reindeer, which starred Drew Barrymore and Ed Asner.
In a professional twist, Johns had actually fired Davis from the production staff of Olive, the Other Reindeer in the late 1990s due to tactical and budgetary reasons.
[1] Davis spoke of the unusual situation in an interview in 2010 explaining, "Alex was in the uncomfortable position of telling me I was being replaced, but to hear his spin, it sounded like I was getting a promotion!
[2] Johns died on August 7, 2010, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a long-term illness at the age of 43.