Bad Taste: the futility of art

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 122, 15 November 1979 · p. 14 of the scan · 148 words

The scan: sc-n122-nov-15-1979.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 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the futility of art. Note: printed without the Bad Taste title panel or a number, in the strip's usual place at the head of the letters page; by sequence it would be no. 59.

page 14 of the scan

The strip, panel by panel

1. "Isn't it a beautiful world!"

2. "I wonder if Willie Gallagher would agree ...." "Who?"

3. "Now I remember — the TV plays — the editorials in the British papers — the promises of politicians —" "Do you mean to say that even after a play on BBC nothing was done!?!"

4. "Oh, something was done, all right!" "People came together to discuss the futility of art."