Recent recipient of The Inkpot Award for artistry in cartooning, Jim is the creator of the licensing hit IT’S HAPPY BUNNY®, which has sold over three-quarters of a billion dollars at retail. It’s won five top awards from LIMA, an NCS divisional award for greeting cards, three Addy awards, and The American Librarians Association designated It’s Happy Bunny books as Top Picks for teen readers. His series, DEAR DUMB DIARY, is a New York Times Best-seller, and has over ten million books in print. And has been printed in over a dozen languages. It was made into a musical Made-For-TV movie, which Jim co-wrote and produced. His series, FRANNY K.STEIN, has sold millions of copies in over a dozen languages, including audio books and Braille, His cartoon collections, DOG BUTTS AND LOVE, and MAN I HATE CURSIVE were both nominated for Eisner Awards. Jim posts new comics to GoComics and his work has won four NCS Divisional Reuben Awards. Other titles include CHERISE THE NIECE, THE END (ALMOST), COMET: THE UNSTOPPABLE REINDEER, CLYDE, ATTACK OF THE STUFF, CATWAD, and BATMAN SQUAD with DC Comics. Jim also does joke crafting for Illumination and is credited in the upcoming Despicable Me 4. Dav Pilkey, creator of DOGMAN says: “Jim Benton is a comic genius and a brilliant cartoonist.” And beloved MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés says: “Humor in print has many forms, what is amazing is that Jim Benton excels in all of them!” Future projects include the jOkObO collection, new book titles and new It's Happy Bunny silliness.