Dean Rankine is a Ledger and Stanley Award winning comic book artist, illustrator, writer and painter on the ABC’s, ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’. He’s best known for his work on Simpsons Comics and Rick and Morty.

Dean’s credits include; Simpsons Comics #180, #182, #183, #184, #186, #200, #211, #225, #228, #231, #233, #234, #238, #240, 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, 2016, 2017 & 2018, 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, Jimbo Jones #1, The Mighty Moe Szyslak #1, Krusty the Clown #1, Chief Wiggum’s Felonious Funnies #1,The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror’ #23 and The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Vol. 2 : Deadtime Stories for Boos & Ghouls (Bongo Comics). He also contributed illustrations to Bartman: The Superhero’s Handbook (Matt Groening Productions).

His other credits include; Rick and Morty : Rickmobile Exclusive, Rick and Morty : Super Spring Break Special #1, Rick and Morty : Kingdom Balls #2, Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Special, Rick and Morty : Super Special Holiday Extravaganza #1, Rick and Morty : Spring Break Out #1, Rick and Morty Yearbook Vol 1, Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Deluxe Omnibus Library top tier box illustrations and Invader Zim #40 (Oni Press), The Riverdale Diaries : Starring Veronica graphic novel (Archie Comics/Buzzpop), Oggy and the Cockroaches #1, #2, #3, Oggy New Year – One Shot, Underdog and Pals #2, #3, Rocky and Bullwinkle : As Seen On TV #1, #2, Robonic Stooges #2, Laurel and Hardy Christmas Follies #1 and Laurel and Hardy Meet The Three Stooges #1 (American Mythology), The Hellboy Winter Special 2016 (Dark Horse), Fun With Little Archie and Friends Special #1 (Game Changer), Skottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland #13, The Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland #1-#3 and the UTOIHF Walking Dead 20th Anniversary cover (Image Comics), Still Game : Book 1 and Book 2 and Eejit Street #4, #5 and the Eejit Street : World Cup Special (Scunnered Ink), The Beano and The Dandy (DC Thomson), Zombie Tramp Does the Holidays and Cougar and Cub #5 (Action Lab), Talgard #2, Kongutan Vs Kraken (Gestalt) and Australian MAD Magazine (Next Media).

Dean is the writer/illustrator of the Death Metal Emo Elves series (Redback Publishing), Can You Find The Easter Bunny?, Can You Find Santa’s Elves?, Freaky Tales : Can You Find The Piggies?, Can You Find The Easter Bunny Around Australia (Scholastic) and Mrs Snitch is a Witch (Five Mile).
He’s the illustrator of the Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony series – written by Magda Szubanski. And illustrated the Funny Thing Happened to Simon Sidebottom series and On The First Day of School (Scholastic), Brock the Croc and Brock the Croc : Make it Snappy (Larrikin House), The Mad Scientist (Pearson), the Stuff Happens series (Penguin Random House) Pac-Man : The First Animated TV Show Based Upon a Video Game (BearManor Media) and Superhero Therapy For Anxiety and Trauma (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).

He’s the creator of 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) published through Action Lab.

He has written for The Phantom #1908, #1952 #1988 (Frew), Decay #21 (Dark Oz) and wrote and illustrated Baby’s First Exorcism, Poetry of the Geek, My Dad is an Animal (Popsicle Press) and Be Batman : The Unofficial Superhero’s Guide to Overcoming Adversity (Shooting Star). He is the co-creator of the UpBeat Geek mental health card set with Dr. Janina Scarlet (Pop Culture Hero Coalition).

And (would you believe) he’s one of the massive group of artists who currently hold the Guinness World Records for the ‘Most Contributors to a Published Comic Book’ and ‘Most Contributors to a graphic novel’.

When he’s not drawing Dean likes to eat pizza, play Dungeons and Dragons and watch cat videos.
Dean’s available to draw you ‘Simpsons’ style and for the right price will happily put your head in a jar a la Futurama.

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