Dean Rankine is an Australian comics artist, writer and illustrator. Rankine's work has appeared in many comics, books and magazines.

Career

His early comics appeared in many children's magazines - Mania, Explore, Krash, KidZone and Challenge. His own characters have included "Grossgirl and Boogerboy" in Mania and "In the Wild With Maggie and Mitch" in Explore (Pearson Education). He became a Dandy artist in issue 3571 and has drawn the mini-strips 'My Mum Is A Brain Eating Zombie', 'Flatman and Ribbon', 'The Shrimpsons', 'Simon's Bowel' and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turkeys' for that title. Rankine is a regular guest and presenter at Australian Comic Conventions. He has gone on to work on ''

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''. His other credits include; ''

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'', ''Underdog'', ''Oggy and the Cockroaches'' and ''The Riverdale Diaries: Starring Veronica''. He illustrated the Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony series - written by Magda Szubanski. And wrote and illustrated - Death Metal Emo Elves.

Credits

Over the past 20 years, his credits include Simpsons and

comics (Bongo), Rick and Morty (Oni) Australian MAD Magazine, Hellboy (Dark Horse), Skottie Young's I Hate Fairyland (Image), the iconic Dandy and Beano magazines (DC Thomson), Itty Bitty Bunnies in Rainbow Pixie Candy Land (Action Lab Entertainment). He has also illustrated books for Scholastic (including ''A Funny Thing Happened to Simon Sidebottom''), Pearson Australia and Penguin Books (The ''Stuff Happens'' series). Beginning in 2001, Rankine's Simpsons and Bart Simpsons Comics (Bongo) contributions include: * ''

'' #180, #182, #183, #184, #186, #200, #211, #225, #228, * '' Futurama Comics'' #62, * ''Bongo's Two One-Shot Wonders in One'' #1, * ''Bart Simpson's Pal, Milhouse'' #1 * ''Simpsons Winter Wingding'' #7, #10, * ''Bongo Comics Free-For-All'' 2013 & 2014 * ''The Malevolent Mr. Burns'' #1 * ''Bart Simpson Comics'' #78, #80, #82, #83, #87, #89, #91, #94, #95, #98, #99 * ''The Greatest Bartman Stories Ever Told'' #1 and * ''Jimbo Jones'' #1. Other Matt Groening Productions include ''Bartman: The Superhero's Handbook'' (Vault of Simpsonology) and Bartman Trading Cards. His other credits include; Futurama (Bongo) Hellboy Winter Special 2016 #1 (Dark Horse Comics), I Hate Fairyland #13 (Image Comics) and 'Itty Bitty Bunnies in Rainbow Pixie Candy Land' #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and Itty Bitty Bunnies: Cavalcade of Contraband (TPB) and Friendgasm (TPB) (Action Lab Entertainment), The 'Stuff Happens' series (Penguin Books), Australian MAD Magazine (Next Media) and Oggy and the Cockroaches (American Mythology Productions). Rankine authored the webcomic ''Holy Cow! Christian Comics'', which he hosted on Webcomics Nation, as well as '' The Unbelievable Unfortunately Mostly Unreadable and Nearly Unpublishable Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland''.

Awards

In 2015, he received a Ledger Award for ''Itty Bitty Bunnies: Save X-mas'', recognising excellence in Australian Comics. In 2020 he received the Stan Cross Award in Book Illustration from the Australian Cartoonists' Association (ACA). In 2024 the Australian Cartoonists Association awarded him with two Stan Cross Awards; Comic Book Artist and Book Illustrator.

References

* ''Operation Funnybone'' edited by Glen Shearer. Melbourne, Vic.: Operation Funnybone, 2005.

External links

*
Holy Cow! Christian Comics
' (archived) on Webcomics Nation
Dean Rankine's "God's Love is Like a Conjoined Twin" Inspired!Comics
Australian comics artists Australian illustrators Living people Australian webcomic creators Australian science fiction artists The Beano people Year of birth missing (living people) {{webcomic-author-stub