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Jim Benton
Author · 64 books

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.

Series

Books

Life. Get One. book cover

Life. Get One.

2008

Nhật ký ngốc xít 1 book cover

Nhật ký ngốc xít 1

2008

The Frandidate book cover

The Frandidate

2008

My Pants Are Haunted book cover

My Pants Are Haunted

2004

It's Me. book cover

It's Me.

2019

High Five! A Graphic Novel (Catwad #5) book cover

High Five! A Graphic Novel (Catwad #5)

2021

Nobody's Perfect. I'm as Close as It Gets book cover

Nobody's Perfect. I'm as Close as It Gets

2012

Nhật ký ngốc xít 2 book cover

Nhật ký ngốc xít 2

2012

Mood Science (10) book cover

Mood Science (10)

2021

Dear Dumb Diary Collection book cover

Dear Dumb Diary Collection

Books 1-10

2010

Recipe for Disaster book cover

Recipe for Disaster

2020

Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid book cover

Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid

2004

Man, I Hate Cursive book cover

Man, I Hate Cursive

Cartoons for People and Advanced Bears

2016

The Fran That Time Forgot book cover

The Fran That Time Forgot

2005

Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers book cover

Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

2014

The Invisible Fran book cover

The Invisible Fran

2004

Me, Three! book cover

Me, Three!

2020

The Complete Franny K. Stein book cover

The Complete Franny K. Stein

Mad Scientist- Lunch Walks Among Us- Attack of the 50 Ft. Cupid- Invisible Fran- the Fran That Time Forgot- The Fran With Four Brains- Frantastic Voyage- The Frandidate

2012

Where Did All the Dinos Go? book cover

Where Did All the Dinos Go?

1821

Dumbness is a Dish Best Served Cold book cover

Dumbness is a Dish Best Served Cold

2016

Clyde book cover

Clyde

2019

The Fran with Four Brains book cover

The Fran with Four Brains

2006

The Worst Things In Life Are Also Free book cover

The Worst Things In Life Are Also Free

2010

The Super-Nice are Super-Annoying book cover

The Super-Nice are Super-Annoying

2012

It's Happy Bunny book cover

It's Happy Bunny

What's Your Sign?

2005

Bad Hair Day book cover

Bad Hair Day

2019

It's Happy Bunny book cover

It's Happy Bunny

2005

Night of the Living Things book cover

Night of the Living Things

2017

Love Is Everywhere book cover

Love Is Everywhere

2015

Where's My Fnurgle? book cover

Where's My Fnurgle?

2015

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #70 book cover

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #70

1942

You're Making Me Six book cover

You're Making Me Six

2021

Five Stinky Socks book cover

Five Stinky Socks

2015

Dear Dumb Diary Books 1-4 book cover

Dear Dumb Diary Books 1-4

Let's Pretend This Never Happened/My Pants are Haunted/Am I the Princess or the Frog?/Never Do Anything, Ever

2006

Let's Pretend This Never Happened book cover

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

2004

Am I the Princess or the Frog? book cover

Am I the Princess or the Frog?

2005

Me! (Just Like You, Only Better) book cover

Me! (Just Like You, Only Better)

2011

Robot Kitties book cover

Robot Kitties

2015

That's What Friends Aren't For book cover

That's What Friends Aren't For

2010

Lunch Walks Among Us book cover

Lunch Walks Among Us

2003

Franny K. Stein's Crate of Danger book cover

Franny K. Stein's Crate of Danger

2005

The Handbook book cover

The Handbook

2017

Quite a Mountain book cover

Quite a Mountain

A Fable for All Ages

2017

It's Not My Fault I Know Everything book cover

It's Not My Fault I Know Everything

2008

The Problem with Here Is That It's Where I'm From book cover

The Problem with Here Is That It's Where I'm From

2007

Never Underestimate Your Dumbness book cover

Never Underestimate Your Dumbness

2008

Piggy Paints book cover

Piggy Paints

2015

Never Do Anything, Ever book cover

Never Do Anything, Ever

2005

What I Don't Know Might Hurt Me book cover

What I Don't Know Might Hurt Me

1750

Can Adults Become Human? book cover

Can Adults Become Human?

2006

Nhật ký ngốc xít 3 book cover

Nhật ký ngốc xít 3

2011

Attack of the Stuff book cover

Attack of the Stuff

2020

Nhật ký ngốc xít 4 book cover

Nhật ký ngốc xít 4

2015

Comet the Unstoppable Reindeer book cover

Comet the Unstoppable Reindeer

2020

Four Me? A Graphic Novel (Catwad #4) book cover

Four Me? A Graphic Novel (Catwad #4)

2020

The Good, the Bad, and the Bunny book cover

The Good, the Bad, and the Bunny

2006

You Can Bet on That book cover

You Can Bet on That

2014

School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough? book cover

School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough?

2012

Franny K. Stein Mad Scientist book cover

Franny K. Stein Mad Scientist

2011

Dog Butts and Love. And Stuff Like That. And Cats. book cover

Dog Butts and Love. And Stuff Like That. And Cats.

2014

It's Me, Two book cover

It's Me, Two

2019

The End book cover

The End

2014

Frantastic Voyage book cover

Frantastic Voyage

2005

Live Each Day to the Dumbest book cover

Live Each Day to the Dumbest

2015

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