COMMENTS
Comic Mint, your best source for Simpsons animation art, is pleased to offer our collectors this original production storyboard from the tenth season episode "Treehouse of Horror IX: Hell Toupée" (1998). Until now, these unique pieces of Simpsons history have remained locked away in the vaults of the Twentieth Century Fox studio, unseen by the public.

This storyboard is rendered in graphite and coloured pencil on a sheet of Film Roman storyboard paper measuring 8.5” x 14” inches.
The page is numbered 44, and features the characters with the scripted dialogue, along with hand-written production/scene notes. The storyboard has the official FOX gold seal on the back (lower right corner) and is accompanied with the Twentieth Century Fox ‘Collector’s Portfolio’ certificate of authenticity.

We have also provided screenshots from the scenes, to show as reference where the storyboard panels were used in the making of this episode, which appear on screen near the 11:48 mark.

EPISODE SYNOPSIS:
"Treehouse of Horror IX" is the fourth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 25th, 1998. This is the ninth Treehouse of Horror episode, and, like the other "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, contains three self-contained segments: In "Hell Toupée", Homer gets a hair transplant and is possessed by the spirit of an executed criminal; in "Terror of Tiny Toon", Bartand Lisa are trapped in a special, extremely violent episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show; and in "Starship Poopers", Marge reveals that Maggie is the product of a one-night stand with the alien Kang.

ABOUT STORYBOARDS:
Storyboards are the first step in the animation production process, and are an integral part in the making of this episode. Each storyboard involves a massive creative effort, detailing, shot by shot, how the production team take their ideas for each episode and turn them into the anarchic animation we all know and love.
These pages also provide us with hilarious insights into the making of the show, along with full script annotations.