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Spongebob, his friend Patrick the starfish and Carlo tentacle are in mourning. Stephen Billenburg, the creator of the famous animated series, died Monday, according to Variety. Hillenburg, 57, had been diagnosed with Charcot disease since last March.
"We are very saddened by the news of the death of Stephen Hillenburg after fighting the Charcot disease," responded in a statement Nickelodeon, the channel broadcasting the series "Sponge Bob." "Steve has infused in" SpongeBob "his personal sense of humor and innocence that have blessed generations of children and families around the world. "
SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, has pbaded away at the age of 57. We thank you for Bikini Bottom and our favorite childhood friends. May you enjoy endless amounts of Krabby Patties. pic.twitter.com/5KB2zLD7AM
– IMDb (@IMDb) November 27, 2018
In the 1980s, Stephen Hillenburg was a professor of marine biology in California when he had for the first time the idea of characters who will populate the city of Bikini Bottom. "SpongeBob" was born in 1999 with the broadcast of the first episode on Nickelodeon.
Still in progress, the series has more than 240 episodes and has been awarded several Emmy Awards. It was also adapted to the cinema in 2004 with a feature film directed by Hillenburg himself. A second film mixing real shots and animation was released in 2015.
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