Jim Benton

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born

October 31, 1960 in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, The United States

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male

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http://www.jimbenton.com/

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.

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Average rating: 4.09 · 17,754 ratings · 1,572 reviews · 49 distinct works

	Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Dear Dumb Diary #1) 4.00 avg rating — 3,166 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	My rating:
	My Pants Are Haunted (Dear Dumb Diary #2) 4.03 avg rating — 1,856 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Am I the Princess or the Frog? (Dear Dumb Diary #3) 4.03 avg rating — 1,661 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Never Do Anything, Ever (Dear Dumb Diary #4) 4.09 avg rating — 1,404 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Can Adults Become Human (Dear Dumb Diary #5) 4.10 avg rating — 1,303 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Problem with Here Is That It's Where I'm From (Dear Dumb Diary,#6) 4.14 avg rating — 1,105 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Never Underestimate Your Dumbness (Dear Dumb Diary #7) 4.14 avg rating — 1,083 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	It's Not My Fault I Know Everything (Dear Dumb Diary #8) 4.15 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Lunch Walks Among Us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	That's What Friends Aren't For (Dear Dumb Diary #9) 4.14 avg rating — 490 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Dear Dumb Diary (13 books)
by Jim Benton

4.08 avg rating — 14,309 ratings

Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist (7 books)
by Jim Benton

4.10 avg rating — 2,896 ratings

It's Happy Bunny (4 books)
by Jim Benton, Benton jim

4.04 avg rating — 320 ratings

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“School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.”
― Jim Benton

tags: education , pessimism , school

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“never underestimate your dumbness!!”
― Jim Benton, Never Underestimate Your Dumbness

tags: humor

20 people liked it

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

tags: fun , jokes

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