Jim Benton

Jim Benton is a cartoonist and illustrator who began designing his own characters at a custom t-shirt shop; People called him the most visible cartoonist in America. His SpyDogs characters became The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, an animated series on Fox Kids in 1998. His books include The End (Almost), about a bear who refuses to accept that his story is over, and Let's Pretend This Never Happened, the first Dear Dumb Diary book. He lives in Michigan, where he runs his own studio.