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" (Australia), "Kids Alive" (United Kingdom), "The War Cry" (New Zealand), "Priority" (United States), "Sorthvit" (Norway) and "TFL" (South Africa), 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" (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' 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 (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: 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. Awards. In 2015, he received a Ledger Award for "Itty Bitty Bunnies: Save X-mas", recognising excellence in Australian Comics.