Wes Archer

Wes Archer
Born	November 26, 1961 (1961-11-26)
Occupation	Animation director

Wesley Meyer Archer (born November 26, 1961) is a television animation director. He was one of the original three animators (along with David Silverman and Bill Kopp) on The Simpsons' Tracey Ullman shorts and subsequently directed a number of The Simpsons episodes (many of which had John Swartzwelder as an episode writer) before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill. A few years later he left King of the Hill to direct for Futurama, before eventually returning to King of the Hill. Wes continued to supervise the direction of King of the Hill until the final season. He acted as a consulting director for the last season of King of the Hill, as he joined The Goode Family as supervising director. Archer's college animation film, "Jac Mac and Rad Boy, Go!" has long been a cult classic after receiving repeated airplay on USA Network's Night Flight in the 1980s. He studied at the Film Graphics/Experimental Animation Program at CalArts.

Archer's namesake also appears in an episode of King of the Hill (season 3, "Death and Texas"), in which Peggy is duped into smuggling cocaine to an inmate on death row. The antagonist of the episode, the inmate, was named Wes Archer.

Filmography

• One Crazy Summer (1986) (animator)
• The Simpsons (1990–1996) (director, sheet director, storyboard, storyboard artist)
• King of the Hill (1997–2009) (supervising director, executive animation consultant, consulting director)
• The Goode Family (2009) (supervising director)
• Bob's Burgers (2011) (director)
• Allen Gregory (2011) (director)

The Simpsons episodes

Season One

• "Homer's Odyssey"
• "Moaning Lisa"
• "The Call of the Simpsons"
• "The Crepes of Wrath"

Season Two

• "Treehouse of Horror"
• "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
• "Bart the Daredevil"
• "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
• "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• "Three Men and a Comic Book"

Season Three

• "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"
• "The Otto Show"

Season Four

• "New Kid on the Block"
• "I Love Lisa"

Season Five

• "Rosebud"
• "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
• "Homer Loves Flanders"
• "Lady Bouvier's Lover"

Season Six

• "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
• "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
• "Bart vs. Australia"

Season Seven

• "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part 2)"
• "Bart Sells His Soul"
• "Two Bad Neighbors"
• "The Day the Violence Died"
• "Homerpalooza"

Futurama episodes

• "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch"
• "The Why of Fry"

King of the Hill episodes

• "Pilot"
• "I Remember Mono"
• "Death and Texas"
• "To Kill a Ladybird"
• "Queasy Rider"
• "The Incredible Hank"

The Goode Family episodes

• "Pilot"

Bob's Burgers episodes

• "Hamburger Dinner Theater"
• "Spaghetti Western and Meatballs"

Allen Gregory episodes

• "Full Blown Maids"

External links

• Wes Archer at the Internet Movie Database