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Oink! - Don't eat pigs, cos they're made from ham.. (en.wikipedia.org)

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A treasure from the past. Print run was 2.5 years through 86-88.

Lying halfway between Buster and Viz, was Oink! A cheeky, pig-themed, politically aware comic, that generated some hilarous lampoons of other comic strips and media personalities.

Great writers, who came from, and went on to do some further outstanding works.

Favourite strip was New Wave Dave.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a website up explaining and following the history, along with scans of most/all pages oink.blog

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Just found the Oink! Blog and I'm reading through it right now.

Had never registered that there was a 45 single record available in issue #38.

I had the original flexi-disc from issue #1, now time to see what other chart-stopping hits they came up with on this 45. (c: