The USPS also celebrates the cultural phenomenon SpongeBob SquarePants. Created by Stephen Hillenburg, the Nickelodeon series ...

Stephen Hillenburg, a onetime marine biology teacher who created “SpongeBob SquarePants,” an Emmy Award-winning animated Nickelodeon program about a goofy underwater world that was the ...

Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist when he decided to go back to school and study experimental animation. The gamble worked, and Hillenburg’s legendary creation, the Nickelodeon TV show ...

Stephen Hillenburg, who created SpongeBob SquarePants, has died at 57. Inhabited by a good-natured pineapple-dwelling yellow sponge and a motley crew of sea creatures, the Nickelodeon TV program ...

"SpongeBob SquarePants" creator Stephen Hillenburg has died at age 57. "We are sad to share the news of the passing of Stephen Hillenburg," read a message posted on Nickelodeon's Twitter and ...

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the hit animated Nickelodeon series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died Monday after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.