John Liu

John Liu

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout artist Status: Active Number of episodes: 308 Seasons active: Season 18 - Present First short: The Longest Daycare Most recent short: When Billie Met Lisa First episode: "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Most recent episode: "My Life as a Vlog"

John Liu is an animator. He currently serves as a background layout artist for The Simpsons.

Credits

Background layout

Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "The Debarted" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Any Given Sundance" Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" Episode – "All About Lisa" Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" Episode – "Lost Verizon" Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks" Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen" Episode – "Take My Life, Please" Episode – "How the Test Was Won" Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally" Episode – "Wedding for Disaster" Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe" Episode – "Coming to Homerica" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "American History X-cellent" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "MoneyBart" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "Moonshine River" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "To Cur, with Love" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "Homerland" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "YOLO" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "The Kid Is All Right" Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Steal This Episode" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Specs and the City" 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 – "Brick Like Me" 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 – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "Friends and Family" Episode – "The Town" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" Episode – "Trust but Clarify" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" 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 – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Dogtown" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" 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 – "Bart's Not Dead" 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 – "Daddicus Finch" 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 – "101 Mitigations" 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 – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida" 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 – "Better Off Ned" 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" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Wad Goals" 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 – "Mother and Child Reunion" Episode – "The Last Barfighter" Episode – "The Star of the Backstage" Episode – "Bart's in Jail!" Episode – "The Wayz We Were" Episode – "Lisa's Belly" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)" Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" 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 – "My Octopus and a Teacher" Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" Episode – "Marge the Meanie" Episode – "Meat Is Murder" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "One Angry Lisa" Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout" Episode – "The King of Nice" THOH – "Not It" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Episode – "From Beer to Paternity" Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa" Episode – "Game Done Changed" Episode – "Top Goon" Episode – "My Life as a Vlog" Special – The Longest Daycare Special – Planet of the Couches Special – Plusaversary Special – When Billie Met Lisa

Retake background layout

• Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
• Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
• Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
• Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
• Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
• Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"

• Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"

Background design

• Episode – "Steal This Episode"

• Episode – "Clown in the Dumps"

• Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" ("Simpsons Time" couch gag)

External links

• John Liu at the Internet Movie Database

Background designers

Current background designers Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Jabu Henderson • TJ Kim • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Assaf Meir • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Javier Pineda • Charles Ragins • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Lance Wilder Former background designers Ben Anderson • Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Seth Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • 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 • Steve Pilapil • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • Dean Scammahorn • George Taylor • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich • Phillip O. Yeo Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • Roman Laney • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Ben Anderson • Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Dillon Froelich • Sam Ho • Heejin Kim • Alex Lee • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Doug Walker • Phillip O. Yeo 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 • Drew Johnson • 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 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 • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Jonathan 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