Oink!
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A revolution in reading for me at the age of 12 - my Dad could never understand why I bought it - they gave a free promo issue with Buster, I was shocked by some of the content - how times change. Anyway I bought the first 35 issues or so - anyone else have fond memories of Uncle Pigg, Mary Lighthouse, Pete & His Pimple, Burp, Harry The Head and Tom Thug.....I used to love the fact each issue was different - Uncle Pigg goes on holiday and they leave a skeleton staff to run the issue (actual skeletons who cock it up)
It ran for 68 issues from May 1986-October 1988...I still have mine in the attic
It ran for 68 issues from May 1986-October 1988...I still have mine in the attic
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Older brothers pointed out at the time that it was like Viz for kids!
I used to play the free record of Uncle Pigs rap all the time.
Have a looksy http://www.notbbc.netmx.co.uk/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/OINK-SONG-RAP-45-TAPE/dp/B0055SGX6C/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1317056614&sr=1-4
UK moral crusader.
Excellent!
Issue 12, pg10 - is "Snatcher Sam" Mark Riley?? (as in Mark and Lard, The Fall etc...)
And all the other ones too.
Do you notice that Viz is the only one still going ?
Viz is an adult comic, Oink was for kids. How is that a rip-off? They were for totally different markets. That's like saying, I dunno, Match is a rip of of Four Four Two or vice versa...
There were more direct rips of Viz for the same market, though.
It sat proudly alongside my collection of Marvel UK titles - I think I've still got the Christmas Annual somewhere too. Must dig it out when I get chance. Thanks for reminding me!
Viz was alright, but although I was at the age of sneaking peeks at the adult sexy mags, I just thought the humour in Viz was a bit too crude for my tastes. Fair play for the Profanisaurus though - kept me going through Uni and many a stag do.
Thought so! (see post 6)
Also my first issue...
I had the preview issue, then all of them from no 2 (including the annuals & holiday specials). I wrote to them asking where I could get number 1 as it was missing from my colelction and they sent it to me - including the flexi disc on the cover!
"I used to love the fact every issue was different" The Dandy to the exact same thing now, and it's better that it. So there. Please don't shoot me down.
Still have them stored away including the free gifts. Loved the free flexi-disc from the first issue and the stacatto song that lent itself to Grandmaster Flash's The Message:
"Don't eat pigs 'cuz they're made of ham, eat that nasty butcher man..Uh-hu-hu-Huh!":cool:
Yes, I agree that Oink was underrated and I tried to write for it (started well but tailed off!) What happened was, in the VIZ era, sales of IPC's other comics nosedived. Oink was packaged by a group headed by Tony Husband, who draws no end of cartoons, including YOBS in Private Eye. Tom Thug artist Lew Stringer has an excellent comics blog online - Dave
I remember the issue with the 'skeleton staff'. That one was hilarious, especially when Uncle Pigg comes back from holiday and sees the mess that has been made of things. When the skeletons apologise and offer to put things right, he roars "Don't bother! You're fired!" at them and they promptly disintegrate. Uncle Pigg then sweeps up their remains and reassures readers that things will be back to normal in the next issue.
There was one Roger Rental (He's Completely Mental!) strip I recall where he's a DJ at a disco. A punter comes up and says "Lay some heavy rock on me, man" - a gigantic boulder then falls down from the roof and flattens him.
Wind in the Willows is another I remember. A three-panel strip which took the title literally: it was about a tree breaking wind!