LOS ANGELES — Stephen Hillenburg, who used his dual loves of drawing and marine biology to spawn the absurd undersea world of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” has died, Nickelodeon announced Tuesday.

An overheard audition and a set of artistic boundaries shaped one of animation’s most enduring characters, with a new film ...

Cartoon fanatics around the world are mourning the loss of animation royalty, Stephen Hillenburg, who died of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) on Monday, Nov. 25.

Stephen Hillenburg, who died in November, has a cameo in the Nickelodeon show's title sequence “Are you ready kids?” Every child who grew up watching SpongeBob Squarepants will recognize those words ...

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the animated Nickelodeon show "SpongeBob Squarepants," has died. Nickelodeon confirmed the news in a Tweet on Tuesday. "We are sad to share the news of the passing ...

As a show, SpongeBob didn’t exactly grow with its original viewership. It seems significant that so many of these memes are from the show’s first three seasons (notable exception: “Mocking SpongeBob” ...

Amid the deep divisive rifts and political eddies over the environment, the planet’s most famous marine cartoonist saw the ocean as a force for bringing us together. For two decades, Stephen ...

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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2015 file photo, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg attends the world premiere of "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water" in New York. Hillenburg died Monday, ...

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Now a moment to remember the creator of Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants." Stephen Hillenburg died yesterday of ALS at age 57. NPR's Andrew Limbong has this look at his work. UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: ...