With Halloween coming up I thought this was worth posting again. Here's a Treehouse of Horrors II design with Matt Groening's notes, always interesting to see his input.

Here's a interesting piece of Simpsons history which sold today at auction, a 1988 Matt Groening concept drawing for Milhouse (gifted to former director Wes Archer). I believe this could have been originally produced for Matt's unproduced NBC pilot Melvin's Inferno.

Here's a model sheet for Rabbi Krustofsky (or 'Krustofski' as it is spelt here), voiced by Jackie Mason. This model sheet is where we see a younger Rabbi Krusofsky during Like Father Like Clown. The annotations relate to the character's colours.

Here's something interesting/slightly odd from Hurricane Neddy. Although they are out of frame in the final cut of the episode, Mindy, James Woods and Barry White (who all show up in season 4 and 5) appear to have been erroneously included in a crowd of Springfield regulars.

Here's a couple of uncropped cels from Natural Born Kissers (first airing May 17th, 1998). This episode marked Matt Selman's first full script and is the only episode to be directed by Klay Hall, who would later go on to be a supervising director on King of the Hill.

Here's some interesting unused designs from Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes. I have no idea who 'Pete' is or why his dad was to be an extra, but assume he was staff on the show. If anyone knows, drop a comment below.

To those who celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving! Here's a layout drawing from the classic Bart vs. Thanksgiving. This can be found on the Season 2 DVD extras I vaguely remember Eric Stefani commenting when I posted this before to say he had worked on this scene.

Here's the storyboard and script excerpt from for a moment from Homer Loves Flanders that spawned the meme. Although the episode was written by David Richardson, the idea for this moment originated from showrunner David Mirkin and is based on a childhood habit he had.

Whoa, looks like another cel from the cut Ralph/Krusty airplane scene from "22 Short Films About Springfield" has surfaced! I previously posted the other 2 cels I've seen (one I own) but this one is new to me. Here you see Ralph's holding his beepbooping Merlin game

Thought I should post something from one of the Christmas episodes, so here's some Funzo designs from Grift of the Magi, directed by Matthew Nastuk. I'm fairly certain these are both the work of character designer Joe Wack.

Here's a set-up of animation drawings from the true first Christmas special from season three of The Tracey Ullman show: Simpsons Christmas (or Simpsons Xmas), first airing December 18th, 1988. Thanks to collector Ed Ant for sending me this piece of Christmas Simpsons history.

Here's what I believe to be an example of Istvan Majoros' work from Lisa the Iconoclast (on which he's credited for character layouts). Istvan (who sadly left us in September) was known for using bright Prismacolor pencils, making his drawings easy to identify.

Simpsons Production Art Here's a production drawing for a Radio Bart deleted scene taken from an old eBay listing, along with the full scene from a late draft. This sequence also appears in the episode's storyboards on the Season 3 DVD.

“The boy that says the words you've been longing to hear like the salivating dogs that you are” Bart Gets Famous (Dir. Susie Dietter) first aired 30 years ago today. Here's some sequential Krusty layouts, found on the DVD extras.

Since The War of the Simpsons (directed by Mark Kirkland) first aired 33 years ago today, here's a couple of production drawings of drunken Homer from the episode, seen for sale a few years ago:

This David Silverman drawing was part of a collection of Simpsons production material gifted to Frank Zappa (potentially in around 1992) and later sold at auction. Zappa and Gábor Csupó were known to be friends, with the Zappa family sometimes visiting the Klasky Csupo studio.

Here's some of David Silverman's work from the production of Blood Feud (directed by Silverman):

Gift from the Klasky Csupo team to Frank Zappa (circa 1991):

Signed Frank Zappa caricature by Mark Ervin (circa 1991): Huge thanks to Mark Ervin for generously sending on this image of a great Simpsons style caricature he gifted to Zappa during the previously covered studio visit. #frankzappa #zappa #thesimpsons

Bathtime key poses (circa 1989): Thanks to 'simpsonsunofficialarchive' on Instagram for sending me a huge cache of Tracey Ullman era material, including these from the production of the short Bathtime. For those interested, regular posts here: instagram.com/simpsons.produ…