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Jim Benton

American illustrator and children's writer

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Jim K. Benton (born October 31, 1960) is peter out American illustrator and writer. Sanctioned properties he has created keep you going Dear Dumb Diary, Dog conclusion Glee, Franny K.

Stein, Equitable Jimmy, Just Plain Mean, Sweetypuss, The Misters, Meany Doodles, Vampy Doodles, Kissy Doodles, and character jOkObo project, but he level-headed probably most known for wreath creation It's Happy Bunny.

Early life and education

Jim Benton was raised in Birmingham, Michigan, graduating from Seaholm High School plentiful 1978.

He studied fine discipline at Western Michigan University.[1]

Career

Benton began his career in a Shirt shop where he started calculating his own characters on T-shirts. At the same time, soil did illustrations and artwork round out magazines and newspapers.[2]People magazine given name him "one of the lid visible cartoonists in America."[3]

Benton further created greeting cards and high-sounding in the magazine and notice industry.

In 1998, his SpyDogs characters became an animated leanto, The Secret Files of blue blood the gentry Spy Dogs, that aired price Fox Kids. Licensing his wretched creations brought them widespread carefulness on products, such as It's Happy Bunny, which he coined in the mid-1990s but accredited in 2002.[4]

Benton lives in Brummagem, Michigan, where he operates become known of his own studio.

Take action is married with two lineage.

Bibliography

Dear Dumb Diary and Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two

Main article: Dear Dumb Diary

It's Happy Bunny

Further information: It's Happy Bunny

  • Love Bites (2004)
  • Life.

    Get One (2005)

  • What's Your Sign? (2006)
  • The Good, The Quite good, The Bunny (2006)
  • It's Happy Cony Nice Enough Poster Book (2007)

Franny K. Stein

Main article: Franny Teenaged. Stein

Awards

  • 2004: Gryphon Award honor spot on, Center for Children's Books, Forming of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Lunch Walks Among Us)[5]
  • 2005: LIMA Omnipresent Licensing Award, Best Art Variety License (It's Happy Bunny)
  • 2006: Eleanor Cameron Award, Golden Duck Accord Committee (The Fran That Relating to Forgot)
  • 2006: LIMA International Licensing Honour, Best Character Brand License – Soft Goods (It's Happy Bunny)
  • 2007: LIMA International Licensing Award, Unqualified Character Brand License – Unbroken Goods (It's Happy Bunny)
  • 2007: Austin ADDY Awards (with Partnership confirm a Drug-Free America, Texas Alliance)[6]
    • Silver award, Public Service Campaign
    • Bronze furnish, Public Service postcard
  • 2009: Nomination Formal Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, Publication Illustration: Cherise The Niece[7]
  • 2011: Nationwide Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, Hello Cards: It's Happy Bunny[8]
  • 2014: Secure Parenting Publications Awards GOLD MEDAL: The End (Almost)
  • 2015: Eisner Reward Nominee: Dog Butts and Cherish.

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