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Jay Lender (born June 14, 1969 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States) is an American television writer and director. He is a former writer for SpongeBob SquarePants. Previous to his work on SpongeBob, Jay designed and drew numerous backgrounds for Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!. He is the son of the founder of Lender's Bagels, Murray Lender. Since leaving Nickelodeon, Jay has written a number of scripts for video games with his writing partner Micah Wright, and continues to develop animated series concepts as well as drawing the occasional SpongeBob comic strip for Nickelodeon Magazine. Most recently, the duo worked together on Robocalypse, a real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS. Jay spent two years studying at the Rhode Island School of Design before transferring to CalArts where he specialized in animation. Jay has also directed two seasons of Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb.
Mitchell Van Morgan is an anime-influenced animation media franchise created by MTV Networks Japan K.K. for Nickelodeon and owned by ViacomCBS Inc. (via Nickelodeon). The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character Mitchell Van Morgan and his friends in the fictional city of Raleighopolis (a city entirely based on North Carolina (USA)). It mostly follows Mitchell's adventures in the fictional world of the city of Raleighopolis. The franchise itself shows an anime-inspired action-adventure, dieselpunk and sci-fi genre, with an aesthetic inspired by "Russian wood-block propaganda posters of the 1920s and 30's and the series' plot mostly follows Mitchell, an Afro-latin American teenage cartoonist/rock musician who battles the evil Doctor Marquessa, a mad scientist. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks' most distributed property. Mitchell Van Morgan is the second most-distributed and marketed property of Viacom along with SpongeBob SquarePants. On Oct, 02, 2012, Mitchell Van Morgan is part of the Angie Wolfrom MTV networks archives sent by Wolfram Neuer.
