National Cartoonists Society Honors Jim Benton For Excellence Of It´s Happy Bunny&trade Greeting Cards

BRANDORA Editorial Staff - June 2011
 

The National Cartoonists Society held its 65th Annual Reuben Awards Dinner in Boston over Memorial Day Weekend and Jim Benton, creator of the popular It’s Happy Bunny licensed character, was recognized as a NCS Division Award Winner for excellence in Greeting Cards. “For someone who grew up as such a huge fan of cartoons and cartoonists, it’s just an incredible honor to be recognized in this way by my cartooning peers and longtime cartooning idols,” says Benton.

The National Cartoonists Society annually recognizes excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature/magazine illustration, and editorial cartoons. Benton was recognized for his work on a popular line of It’s Happy Bunny greeting cards published by American Greetings.