Jim Benton
Cartoonist
Children's author and illustrator known for the It's Happy Bunny series and the Dear Dumb Diary series; he was also a two-time National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award nominee.
He worked as a custom T-shirt designer after graduating from Western Michigan University.
He was nominated for a National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 2009 and 2011.
He married and had two children with Mary K. Hart.
He is a contemporary of well-known children's illustrator creator Jeff Kinney , who created Diary of a Wimpy Kid.