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Oink!

Oink!

Genres: Comedy

Publisher: IPC Magazines Ltd

Writer: Various

Artist: Various

Publication date: May 1986 - November 1988

Status: Completed

Views: 33,377

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Pitched as a 'Junior Viz' or 'anti-Beano', Oink! was so much more. Following the preview issue (given away free with Whizzer & Chips, Eagle and 2000AD), the fortnightly Oink! launched the next week. Issue one had a free gift vinyl flexi-disc with two exclusive Oink! related songs.

Oink! had an eclectic cast of characters including porcine editor Uncle Pigg and his arch-nemesis Mary Lighthouse, Harry the Head, Horace (ugly-face) Watkins and Lew Stringer's creations - Tom Thug and Pete Throb (both went on to star in Buster comic, when Oink! folded after 68 issues).

Famous creators include Charlie Brooker and BBC radio presenter Marc (Snatcher Sam) Riley...

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