Jim Benton is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning cartoonist,known for creating beloved characters and hit series that have entertained millionsworldwide. He is the creator of It's Happy Bunny®, a hit intellectual property that'swon five top awards from the licensing industry, a National Cartoonists Societydivisional Reuben Award for greeting cards, and the American Librarians Association'sdesignation on a Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readerslist. Jim's Dear Dumb Diary series boasts over ten million books in print and wasadapted into a musical Made-for-TV movie that Jim cowrote and produced. Hispopular Franny K. Stein series has sold millions of copies in more than a dozenlanguages. An Eisner Award nominee for his cartoon collections Dog Butts and Love.And Stuff Like That. And Cats. and Man, I Hate Cursive, Jim's work has appearedin The New Yorker and MAD Magazine, and he has contributed material forIllumination's Despicable Me 4 and The Secret Life of Pets 2. He is also the recipient ofan Inkpot Award from San Diego Comic-Con, and Dav Pilkey praised him as "a comicgenius and brilliant cartoonist."
