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Derek Drymon (born 1965 in Jefferson, New Jersey, USA) is an American writer & storyboard artist. He has worked on numerous Nickelodeon cartoon productions of the 1990s and 2000s, the most popular show being SpongeBob SquarePants.

Drymon is currently producing a new show for Nickelodeon called Diggs Tailwagger. Drymon is best known as Stephen Hillenburg's right-hand man

Drymon is currently working in the storyboard dept on the next Dreamworks movie called Kung Fu Panda

Contents 1 Personal Background 2 Early Nickelodeon Years 3 Diggs Tailwagger 4 External links

Drymon was born in Jefferson, New Jersey, a small town in far northern New Jersey in 1968. He attended Jefferson Township Public Schools as a child, and supposedly he enjoyed drawing and making comic books. Drymon graduated from Jefferson 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.

Drymon was discovered by Nickelodeon in 1993. He moved to California to work as an animator for Nickelodeon. In 1993 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, Hillenburg 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, "Doggone".

In 1997, Drymon's former "Rocko" co-worker Stephen Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants. Drymon performed many duties on SpongeBob, including being a writer on all episodes, then supervising director and producer, and eventually creative director.

Derek Drymon's new show Diggs Tailwagger has been given the greenlight by Nickelodeon for production. It is likely that the show will premiere in 2007. Derek has written the pilot episode with former SpongeBob co-worker Kaz

• Derek Drymon at the Internet Movie Database