Jim Reardon is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and film and television director.
He has directed over 30 episodes of the series and was credited as a supervising director for seasons 9 through 15.
[1] 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.
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.