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Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: May 3, 1986 – October 22, 1988
Number of Issues Published: 69 (#1 – #68)
Dimensions: British magazine-size
Paper Stock: glossy paper

Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database

Oink! was a British comic for children which was published from 3 May 1986 to 22 October 1988. It set out to be deliberately anarchic, reminiscent of Viz but for children. The creators also cited Mad magazine as a major influence.

Part of its difference in the marketplace was that it attracted writers and cartoonists from a wide range of previous disciplines. It was devised, launched and edited by Patrick Gallagher, Private Eye regular contributor Tony Husband and Mark Rodgers; although within the fiction of the comic it was “edited” by a character called Uncle Pigg (similar to 2000 AD’s Tharg the Mighty). The comic also followed 2000 AD’s lead in crediting its contributors for their work, still a rarity in British comics at that time. Featured artists and writers included Husband’s Private Eye colleague David Haldane, ex-The Fall member and future BBC Radio 1 radio host Marc “Lard” Riley, Malcolm Douglas, future Beano writer/artist Kev F Sutherland, future Marvel artist, writer and editor & current SpongeBob SquarePants Magazine editor David Leach, future Financial Times cartoonist Jeremy Banks, and satirical media commentator-to-be Charlie Brooker. Viz founders Davy Thorp and Chris Donald also contributed some one-off strips, as did The Beano’s Tom Paterson and John Geering.

Originally a fortnightly publication, it became weekly and finally monthly and was finally wound up after 68 issues, after the comic’s founders, Patrick Gallagher, Tony Husband and Mark Rodgers, were offered a TV deal which resulted in the show Round the Bend. Three Oink! strips transferred to Buster: “Weedy Willy”, “Pete and his Pimple” and “Tom Thug”, the latter appearing through to the comic’s last issue in 1999.

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