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    Appreciation: 'SpongeBob' creator Stephen Hillenburg, from Bikini Bottom to the world

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Nov 28, 2018 5 minutes

    What makes a cartoon a legend? Stephen Hillenburg created one, and nearly 20 years after greeting the public, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is still going strong, from here to Brazil, from Italy to India to Israel, from Poland to Pakistan, just about everywhere. Indeed, the new SpongeBob Christmas special, "SpaceBob MerryPants," premiered the night before Hillenburg died on Monday, at 57, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

    The show has produced the socks and sneakers, the lunch boxes and backpacks, the mugs and notebooks, the plush and plastic figures that are the lot of any successful kids' show. But SpongeBob grew beyond the usual.

    Only last week, wearing a Santa hat, SpongeBob made his latest appearance as a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In September, the

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