sometimes Martin Zukor), often starring Snatcher Sam, who was 'played' by Marc Riley. As the title suggested, pigs were a constant theme. Celebrities would regularly be caricatured as pigs, complete with punning names (Peter Swillton, Michael Jaxham, Janice Pong, etc.) and even existing comic strips would be parodied with a pig theme (e.g. "Ham Dare, Pig of the Future!"). Russell Grant and his horoscopes were also parodied as "Russell Grunt's Hogoscopes". Besides Mary Lighthouse, Uncle Pigg's biggest enemies were butchers, the most vicious of whom was Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith. For most of the comic's run, each issue had a theme (e.g., Christmas, holidays, family etc.) which often allowed the comic to experiment. One issue (dubbed "Oink! goes Peculiar") showed everything going wrong in the Oink! offices, leading to strips being printed upside down or being drawn by the wrong artist etc. In another issue, Uncle Pigg and the Plops all went on holiday, leaving a skeleton staff (of literal skeletons) to produce the comic. The themes were dropped when the comic went weekly at the beginning of 1988. Some items aimed slightly over their target audience's heads - in one strip, Weedy Willy wandered around moaning whilst being followed by a shadowy stranger who was writing down everything he said - for example, "Oh, I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear," and "Heaven knows, I'm miserable now." At the end of the strip, the figure was revealed as Steven Morrissey, getting ideas. The first issue came with a free flexi-disk single called "Poo Poo Tinkle Tinkle Parp Parp Oink Tiddly Widdly Widdly Widdly Plop." References External links Oink! at Comicgrapevine The Oink! Blog - Details and scans on each issue (has copyright permissions) 'Oink!' - the Controversial Children's Comic, h2g2 Fleetway and IPC Comics titles Comics magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct British comics British humour comics 1986 establishments in the United Kingdom 1988 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1986 Magazines disestablished in 1988 1986 comics debuts 1988 comics endings Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Biweekly magazines published in the United Kingdom