The Billion-dollar Sketchbook

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Animator and surfer Stephen Hillenburg’s brainchild made its debut around a Baja campfire. Knowing the artist’s background, that should come as no surprise.

By Biddle Duke

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Features include a Mexican wave zone lost to time and interest, a glacial-fed A-frame, and a surf playground amid an atomic testing range. The animation and comic paneling of cartoonists Stephen Hillenburg and Roy Gonzalez, plus the creative outputs of Josh Martin, Dennis Stock, and Nate Lawrence add additional facets and textures.

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