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Jim Benton

Born

in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, The United States

October 31, 1960

Website

http://www.jimbenton.com/

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Genre

Arts & Photography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult

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Benton began his career in a custom design t-shirt shop where he started designing his own characters. At the same time, Jim did illustrations and artwork for magazines and newspapers. People magazine named him "the most visible cartoonist in America" .

Benton also created greeting cards and worked in the magazine and publishing industry. In 1998, his SpyDogs characters became an animated series, The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, that aired on Fox Kids. Licensing his own creations brought them widespread attention on products, such as It's Happy Bunny, The Misters, Just Jimmy and more.

Benton currently lives in Michigan, where he operates out of his own studio. ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 109,695 ratings · 5,377 reviews · 292 distinct works • Similar authors

	Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Dear Dumb Diary #1) 4.02 avg rating — 18,661 ratings — published 2004 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Not My Fault I Know Everything (Dear Dumb Diary #8) 4.23 avg rating — 9,224 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Pants Are Haunted 4.04 avg rating — 7,636 ratings — published 2004 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Am I the Princess or the Frog? (Dear Dumb Diary, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 6,547 ratings — published 2005 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lunch Walks Among Us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 6,091 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Do Anything, Ever (Dear Dumb Diary #4) 4.09 avg rating — 5,974 ratings — published 2005 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can Adults Become Human? (Dear Dumb Diary, No. 5) 4.11 avg rating — 5,553 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Underestimate Your Dumbness (Dear Dumb Diary, #7) 4.13 avg rating — 4,686 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem with Here Is That It's Where I'm From (Dear Dumb Diary,#6) 4.15 avg rating — 4,618 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That's What Friends Aren't For (Dear Dumb Diary #9) 4.15 avg rating — 3,638 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dear Dumb Diary (19 books)
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Catwad (6 books)
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It's Happy Bunny (4 books)
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“School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.”
― Jim Benton

tags: education, pessimism, school

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“This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.”
― Jim Benton, Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

tags: cannibal, funny, maniac, psycho, running, vampire

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“Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.”
― Jim Benton

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