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Oink!
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 |
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My brother had Oink! delivered and I used to borrow it.
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Yup, all of mine are still in my loft, too! Think I had the entire run barring the first couple of issues as I first saw it at a mates house... think my first issue was the one with the free "make your own stickers" thing on the front... ah, all the Pig-related joke names...
Older brothers pointed out at the time that it was like Viz for kids!
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OMG! I used to love oink.
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-RA...7056614&sr=1-4 |
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I used to like OINK'S "Mary Lighthouse" a vicious parody of a certain
UK moral crusader.
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Have a looksy http://www.notbbc.netmx.co.uk/
Issue 12, pg10 - is "Snatcher Sam" Mark Riley?? (as in Mark and Lard, The Fall etc...) |
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I remember Oink. I mainly remember it as being a VIZ rip - off.
And all the other ones too. Do you notice that Viz is the only one still going ? |
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I remember Oink. I mainly remember it as being a VIZ rip - off.
And all the other ones too. Do you notice that Viz is the only one still going ? There were more direct rips of Viz for the same market, though. |
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Oink was superb. Roger Rental, Frank Sidebottom, Ham Dare (which was particularly brilliant for so many reasons), the photo stories, etc. Hilarious as a kid, and still funny to me today.
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. |
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Never read the comic - but I had the Spectrum game for some reason.
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A bit of triv for "Oink!" fans:artists/ writers included TV satirist Charlie Brooker and Marc "The Boy Lard" Riley.
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A bit of triv for "Oink!" fans:artists/ writers included TV satirist Charlie Brooker and Marc "The Boy Lard" Riley.
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Charlie Brooker couldn't have been very old at the time. I'm 35 and remember getting the comic while at primary school, I thought it was amazing.
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... think my first issue was the one with the free "make your own stickers" thing on the front...
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! |
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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 |
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Loved it. I collected around 30 issues but had to give up a few titles as I was getting skint from the 5 comic titles I was already subscribing (Eagle, 2000AD, Battle, Dr.Who Monthly and Warrior)
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!"
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There's a Facebook group for OINK, the writers are on it too, lots of links to re live those glorious times.
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anyone else have fond memories of Uncle Pigg, Mary Lighthouse... Tom Thug..
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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 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! |
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