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{{Short description|Australian comics artist, writer and illustrator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}}
{{blp sources|date=February 2019}}
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| nationality= Australian
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| known_for=Illustrating comics, books and magazines
| notable_works=''[[Simpsons Comics]]'', ''[[Futurama Comics]]''
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'''Dean Rankine''' is an Australian comics artist, writer and illustrator.<ref name=heavy>{{cite news |last=Griffiths|first=Dave|date=2021|title=Dean Rankine talks OZ COMIC-Con and THE SIMPSONS|url=https://heavymag.com.au/dean-rankine-talks-oz-comic-con-and-the-simpsons|work=Heavymag|location= |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref> Rankine's work has appeared in many comics, books and magazines.<ref>{{cite news |last=Grebert-Craig|first=Brooke|date=29 May 2019|title=Melbourne Oz Comic-Con features a stellar 2019 line-up |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-oz-comiccon-features-a-stellar-2019-lineup/news-story/24ef8cd467f15c3b55a6bad7fb2ac793|work=[[news.com.au]]|location= |access-date=29 August 2022|quote=Rankine is an Australian artist and writer who has worked on comics including Simpsons, Rick and Morty, Futurama and many more}}</ref>

==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.<ref name=super>{{cite web |url=https://www.supanova.com.au/guests/dean-rankine/|title=Guest: Dan Rankine|author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Supernova|publisher= |access-date=29 August 2022|quote=}}</ref>

He has gone on to work on ''[[Simpsons Comics]]''.<ref name=super/> His other credits include; ''[[Futurama Comics|Futurama]]'', ''[[Rick and Morty (comics)|Rick and Morty]]'', ''[[Invader Zim (comics)|Invader Zim]]'', ''Underdog'', ''Oggy and the Cockroaches'' and ''The Riverdale Diaries: Starring Veronica''.<ref name=super/> He illustrated the Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony series - written by Magda Szubanski.<ref name=super/> And wrote and illustrated - Death Metal Emo Elves.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fortitudebarbell.com.au/products/polished-man-2022-charity-shirt|title=Polished Man 2022 Charity Shirt|author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Fortitude Barbell|publisher= |access-date= |quote=...and the writer/illustrator on the new book series - Death Metal Emo Elves}}</ref>

==Credits==
Over the past 20 years, his credits include [[List of The Simpsons comics|Simpsons]] and [[Futurama]] 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).<ref name=heavy/><ref name=super/> He has also illustrated books for Scholastic (including ''A Funny Thing Happened to Simon Sidebottom''), Pearson Australia and Penguin Books (The ''Stuff Happens'' series).<ref name=super/>

Beginning in 2001, Rankine's Simpsons and Bart Simpsons Comics (Bongo) contributions<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/m02cover-20180523-h10gmz.html|title=Oz Comic Con showcases the diversity of fans passionate about comic books|date=2 June 2018}}</ref> include: 
* ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'' #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]]'', hosted on [[Substack]].

==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==
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* ''Operation Funnybone'' edited by Glen Shearer. Melbourne, Vic.: Operation Funnybone, 2005. {{ISBN|0-9758075-0-1}}

==External links==
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060316081631/http://www.webcomicsnation.com/deanrankine/ Holy Cow! Christian Comics]'' (archived) on [[Webcomics Nation]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713182743/http://lamppostpubs.com/?p=489 Dean Rankine's "God's Love is Like a Conjoined Twin" Inspired!Comics]

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