Bad Taste no. 50: the Twelfth

The scan: sc-n106-jul-26-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 10, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 50 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the Twelfth.

page 10 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: having missed his deadline because the post office is closed for the Twelfth, the cartoonist watches Orangemen celebrate "civil and religious liberty" — whose recent manifestation was the Shankill Butchers. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 50, Socialist Challenge no. 106, 26 July 1979, page 10. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #50.

2. Thinks: "Another deadline for a comic strip missed ...."

3. "Not my own fault, of course." "The post office is closed ...."

4. (Orangemen in bowler hats march past.) "... during the carnival of reaction!" "Celebrating the tradition of civil and religious liberty —"

5. "— of which the recent manifestation was the heroic activity of the Shankill Butchers." Thinks: "I have no mouth and I must scream."