The Periodicals' Pyre - No. 4

More from the newsagent's graveyard...

PIGS IN WIGS: On its own, a pig is a dull, ugly object. But glue a wig onto it and it is instantly transformed into an icon of glamour and mystery while still retaining the stink of old shite. This magazine devoted itself to the enigma that is a pig with a wig on its head, trying to communicate with the helpless animals while campaigning for them to be promoted to government and other posts of high office. When it was revealed that its editor was smuggling east European pigs into the country and selling them as sex hogs, the magazine vanished. Forever?