My first comic employer

kevf · Post by **kevf** » 05 Mar 2006, 09:50

The first comic to give me work. All hail Uncle Pigg (the much missed Mark Rodgers who died only a few years after the comic).

Other creators who got their break or did their best work in Oink were Simon Thorp and Davy Jones (Oink), Lew Stringer, Frank Sidebottom, Mark (Lard) Riley, Banx, Tony Husband, David Haldane, David Leach, Charlie (Zeppotron) Brooker and many more.

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 16 Mar 2006, 01:46

kevf wrote: Other creators who got their break or did their best work in Oink were Simon Thorp and Davy Jones (Oink), Lew Stringer,

Actually it was Marvel UK three years earlier who gave me my break in comics (cartoons in The Daredevils then my Robo-Capers strip in Transformers and Captain Wally and Snailman strips in Spider-Man). Oh, you mean I did my best work for Oink? Blimey. So the last 20 years have been all downhill from there. ;-)

Joking aside, Oink was a great comic and sorely missed. For the 20th anniversary of its launch, this May, I'm intending to add a page to my website detailing some of the little known background to the comic.

Lew
http://lewcomix.tripod.com

Conor B · Post by **Conor B** » 16 Mar 2006, 16:51

I read somewhere that you artists who worked on Oink! did your artwork for the preview issue in 1984. Is that correct?

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 18 Mar 2006, 01:40

Conor B wrote:I read somewhere that you artists who worked on Oink! did your artwork for the preview issue in 1984. Is that correct?

The preview issue of Oink! that was given as a free gift with Buster, Whizzer & Chips and Eagle was shot from the dummy issue, drawn in 1984. It took two years for Oink to get the go ahead. Then the first issue of Oink proper came out a week after the free preview, in May 1986.

Lew

Magnet · Post by **Magnet** » 18 Mar 2006, 20:38

I love Oink!

Stingray · Post by **Stingray** » 19 Mar 2006, 03:09

Ah, Jeremy Banx is a really nice guy as well....... His later work on The Many Deaths of Norman Spittal was great stuff.
Just dug out my Oink comics, and the promo given away with Eagle comic which I amazingly still own. Ahhh, the memories.

Little Squelchy Thing · Post by **Little Squelchy Thing** » 19 Mar 2006, 03:18

I used to really love Oink!. It remains one of my all-time favourites.

I still haven't forgiven my mum for chucking out a load of them when I was a kid.

CURSE YOU MOTHER!

She...she isn't here, is she?

Whew!

Bunky · Post by **Bunky** » 20 May 2006, 17:57

I remember a photo-strip in Oink called something like Guzzler Gertie about a permanently hungry schoolgirl. I really fancied the girl who played Gert - she was dead cute and looked like one of girl group Fuzzbox. Anyone know who she was?

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