Mark Rodgers and Oink!

Material created by Mark Rogers including outlines of storylines and sketches for comic strips; correspondence relating to these and some plays.

Mark Rogers was an artist who with Patrick Gallagher and Tony Husband founded Oink! magazine, a subversive and alternative kids' comic with broad appeal. It was published by Fleetway publications between 1986 and 1988, eventually merged with Buster. The founders went on to create the children's TV series Round the Bend.
There's an Oink! Facebook group which Tony Husband and some of the artists post on. OinkComic@groups.facebook.com

Box list, chronological order where possible

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Mark Rogers was an artist who with Patrick Gallagher and Tony Husband founded Oink! magazine, a subversive and alternative kids' comic with broad appeal. It was published by Fleetway publications between 1986 and 1988, eventually merged with Buster. The founders went on to create the children's TV series Round the Bend.
There's an Oink! Facebook group which Tony Husband and some of the artists post on. OinkComic@groups.facebook.com

Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, February 2012. Updated by Angus Stewart, Archive volunteer, December 2015

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Personal material returned

Passed to the School of English and transferred to the Archive by the depositor, as part of the Comics collection

Not expected

Published

Catalogued

MS 341