Dean Rankine


Dean Rankine is an Australian comics artist, writer and illustrator. Rankine's comics work has appeared in many children's magazines - KidZone, Explore, Venue, Mania, Krash and Wacky But True, Kids Alive, The War Cry, Priority, Sorthvit and TFL, as well as Australian anthology comics, and he has illustrated books for Ashton Scholastic and Acorn Press, and most recently, The Dandy and The Beano, among others.

Career

His early comics for Christian magazines proved both popular and controversial. His own characters have included "Grossgirl and Boogerboy" in Mania and "In the Wild With Maggie and Mitch" in Explore. He became a Dandy artist in issue 3571 and has drawn the mini-strips 'My Mum Is A Brain Eating Zombie', 'Flatman and Ribbon' and 'The Shrimpsons' for that title. He currently draws 'Simon's Bowel' and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turkeys' for The Beano. Rankine is a regular guest and presenter at Australian Comic Conventions.

Credits

Over the past 20 years, his credits include Simpsons and Futurama comics, Rick and Morty Australian MAD Magazine, Hellboy, Skottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland, the iconic Dandy and Beano magazines, Itty Bitty Bunnies in Rainbow Pixie Candy Land. He has also illustrated books for Scholastic, Pearson Australia and Penguin Books.
Beginning in 2001, Rankine's Simpsons and Bart Simpsons Comics contributions include:
Other Matt Groening Productions include Bartman: The Superhero's Handbook and Bartman Trading Cards.
His other credits include; Futurama Hellboy Winter Special 2016 #1, I Hate Fairyland #13 and 'Itty Bitty Bunnies in Rainbow Pixie Candy Land' #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and Itty Bitty Bunnies: Cavalcade of Contraband and Friendgasm , The 'Stuff Happens' series, Australian MAD Magazine and Oggy and the Cockroaches. Rankine authored the webcomic Holy Cow! Christian Comics, which he hosted on Webcomics Nation.

Awards

In 2015 he received a Ledger Award for 'Itty Bitty Bunnies : Save X-mas' recognising excellence in Australian Comics.