There's a website up explaining and following the history, along with scans of most/all pages oink.blog
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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:
Great writers, who came from, and went on to do some further outstanding works.
Yes, there were a few Viz imitators (just poaching a fraction of their readership would make you a success) but Oink! seems the one that had the most impact with its alumni, like Charlie Broker, going on to do great things.
When I found out that Charlie Brooker had been a writer for Oink!, I thought, "that fits". Newswipe seemed like a continuation of the early Oink! piss-take attitude.
Showing my age, but I actually bought a few issues of that comic at the newsstand. Money was tight though, and when I was forced to make a choice I went back to my first love, superhero comics.