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Jim Benton



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.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
Series
Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist
   1. Lunch Walks Among Us (2003)
   2. Attack of the 50-ft. Cupid (2003)
   3. The Invisible Fran (2004)
   4. The Fran That Time Forgot (2005)
   5. Frantastic Voyage (2005)
   6. The Fran with Four Brains (2006)
   7. The Frandidate (2008)
   8. Bad Hair Day (2019)
   9. Recipe for Disaster (2020)
   10. Mood Science (2021)
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It's Happy Bunny
   1. Love Bites (2011)
   2. Life. Get One (2005)
   3. What's Your Sign? (2005)
   4. The Good, the Bad, and the Bunny (2006)
   5. I (Heart) Me Valentines (2008)
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Catwad
   1. It's Me. (2019)
   2. It's Me, Two (2019)
   3. Me, Three! (2020)
   4. Four Me? (2020)
   5. High Five! (2021)
   6. You're Making Me Six (2021)
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Novels
   The Handbook (2017)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Quite a Mountain (2017)
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Picture Books show
 
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