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Dean Rankine | |
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 Dean Rankine, 2022 | |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | comics artist |
| Known for | Illustrating comics, books and magazines |
| Notable work | Simpsons Comics,Futurama Comics |
Dean Rankine is an Australian comics artist, writer and illustrator.[1] Rankine's work has appeared in many comics, books and magazines.[2]
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.[3]
He has gone on to work onSimpsons Comics.[3] His other credits include;Futurama,Rick and Morty,Invader Zim,Underdog,Oggy and the Cockroaches andThe Riverdale Diaries: Starring Veronica.[3] He illustrated the Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony series - written by Magda Szubanski.[3] And wrote and illustrated - Death Metal Emo Elves.[4]
Over the past 20 years, his credits includeSimpsons andFuturama 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).[1][3] He has also illustrated books for Scholastic (includingA Funny Thing Happened to Simon Sidebottom), Pearson Australia and Penguin Books (TheStuff Happens series).[3]
Beginning in 2001, Rankine's Simpsons and Bart Simpsons Comics (Bongo) contributions[5] include:
Other Matt Groening Productions includeBartman: 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) andOggy and the Cockroaches (American Mythology Productions). Rankine authored the webcomicHoly Cow! Christian Comics, which he hosted onWebcomics Nation, as well asThe Unbelievable Unfortunately Mostly Unreadable and Nearly Unpublishable Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland.
In 2015, he received a Ledger Award forItty 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.
Rankine is an Australian artist and writer who has worked on comics including Simpsons, Rick and Morty, Futurama and many more
...and the writer/illustrator on the new book series - Death Metal Emo Elves
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