 Chris Duffy , the former senior editor of Nickelodeon Magazine , serves as managing editor of SpongeBob Comics . Hillenburg and Duffy met with various comic book writers and artists — including James <unk> , Hilary Barta , Graham Annable , Gregg <unk> , and Jacob Chabot — to contribute to each issues . Retired horror comics writer and artist Stephen R. Bissette returned to write a special Halloween issue in 2012 , with Tony Millionaire and Al Jaffee . In an interview with Tom Spurgeon , Bissette said , " I 've even broken my retirement to do one work @-@ for @-@ hire gig [ for SpongeBob Comics ] so I could share everything about that kind of current job " . 
