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Jim Benton


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

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Arts & Photography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult


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: 4.09 · 98,472 ratings · 4,750 reviews · 218 distinct works • Similar authors
Let's Pretend This Never Ha...
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It's Not My Fault I Know Ev...
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My Pants Are Haunted
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Am I the Princess or the Fr...
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Lunch Walks Among Us (Frann...
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Never Do Anything, Ever (De...
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Can Adults Become Human? (D...
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Never Underestimate Your Du...
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The Problem with Here Is Th...
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Let's Pretend This Never Ha... My Pants Are Haunted Am I the Princess or the Frog? Never Do Anything, Ever Can Adults Become Human? The Problem with Here Is Th... Never Underestimate Your Du...
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It's Me. It's Me, Two Me, Three! Four Me? A Graphic Novel (C... High Five! A Graphic Novel ... You're Making Me Six
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A Triple Scoop of Rage with... Nhật ký ngốc xít 2 Nhật ký ngốc xít 3 Nhật ký ngốc xít 4
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It's Happy Bunny: Love Bites Life. Get One. It's Happy Bunny: What's Yo... The Good, the Bad, and the ...
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“School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.”
― Jim Benton
tags: education, pessimism, school
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“Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.”
― Jim Benton
tags: fun, jokes
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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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