Derek Drymon

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## General Information

### Birth:

Derek David Drymon
November 19, 1968 (age Template:Age)
Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.

## Series Information

### Credits:

Developer
Creative director
Supervising producer
Writer
Storyboard artist
Executive producer
Sequence director

### Years:

1999 - 2004; 2015

**Derek David Drymon** (born November 19, 1968; age Template:Age) is an American writer and storyboard artist. He used to work on numerous Nickelodeon animated series produced in the 1990s and 2000s, with the most popular one being *SpongeBob SquarePants*. He is also co-writer of the *SpongeBob SquarePants* theme song. He later went to Cartoon Network to work on season 1 episodes of *Adventure Time*.

He received writing credits on "Squeeze Me" for *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water* due to the song sampling the theme song. From 2011 to 2018, he was an author and illustrator for *SpongeBob Comics*.

## Biography

Drymon was born as Derek David Drymon in Denville, a small town in northern New Jersey, on November of 1968. He attended Jefferson Township Public School as a child and he enjoyed drawing and making comic books.

Drymon is graduated from Jefferson Township High School in 1987. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York to become an illustrator. After college, he was recruited by Disney feature animation for their internship program. Upon finishing the program he returned to New Jersey and then on to California.

### Early Nickelodeon years

Drymon was discovered by Nickelodeon in 1993. He moved to California to work as a storyboard artist for the network. In 1994, Drymon also began working as a storyboard artist and writer for *Rocko's Modern Life*. It was here he met two of his future employers, Tim Hill and Stephen Hillenburg. Hill was a writer, and Hillenburg was a co-producer and storyboard artist.

Drymon worked on Tim Hill's side project, the popular *KaBlam!* skit *Action League Now!* as a storyboard artist. He also wrote the Emmy-nominated episode of *CatDog*, "Dog Gone."

In 1997, Drymon's former *Rocko's Modern Life* co-worker Stephen Hillenburg created *SpongeBob SquarePants*. Drymon performed a few duties on *SpongeBob*, including supervising director, producer, and eventually creative director. He has also helped develop the series along with Nick Jennings.

### Diggs Tailwagger

Derek Drymon's new show *Diggs Tailwagger*, was given a green light in 2007, but it never made it to fruition.

Drymon worked as a storyboard artist for *DreamWorks Animation* and an animation director for marketing at *Illumination Entertainment*, he also worked at *Laika*.

### Other Work

He co-directed *Hotel Transylvania: Transformania* for Sony Pictures Animation alongside Jennifer Klushka.

## Gallery

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## References

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1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0238757/
2. ↑ Jennings, Rob. "Jefferson native, SpongeBob go way back: Cartoonist an executive producer for animated film", *Daily Record (Morristown)*, November 19, 2004. Accessed October 23, 2007. "But in Morristown, Drymon is perhaps best remembered as an offensive guard and defensive tackle on the high school's state championship football team in 1986.... At Morristown High School, when not playing football, Drymon was sketching comic books."
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORxe04Ullo
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1035705407837097984