Stephen Hillenburg, the visionary creator of "SpongeBob SquarePants" died Monday, Nickelodeon and Jessica Berger, a rep for his family, confirmed to USA TODAY. The cause of death was ALS. ALS, or ...

Left: Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the popular animated series Spongebob Squarepants, is interviewed by Reuters in Singapore, Jan. 28, 2005. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui Go Deeper ...

The name SpongeBob SquarePants says it all. He's a sponge, and he wears square pants. His creator, 42-year-old Steve Hillenburg, is not a sponge, and he does not wear square pants. And that's where… ...

SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg insists that, despite a current controversy, hand-holding pals SpongeBob and Patrick are not frontmen for the gay agenda, or any other agenda besides wacky ...

Relentlessly optimistic SpongeBob SquarePants lives in the undersea township of Bikini Bottom, along with an assortment of zany supporting characters. Among them is his best friend, the lovable ...

The creator of Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” says he has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Stephen Hillenburg tells Variety that he will continue to work on the show and ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "SpongeBob SquarePants" creator Stephen Hillenburg, who brought the zany cartoon marine underworld of Bikini Bottom to television, the movies and the stage, has died at the ...

For two decades, Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Nickelodeon’s animated phenomenon “SpongeBob SquarePants,” made viewers in more than 170 countries laugh at themselves, thanks to the show’s ...

The creator of Nickelodeon's long-running hit, SpongeBob SquarePants, says he has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stephen Hillenburg, who used his dual loves of drawing and marine biology to spawn the absurd undersea world of "SpongeBob SquarePants," has died, Nickelode ...

Stephen Hillenburg, 55, a former marine biology teacher, created the series in 1999.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...