Bad Taste no. 13: Goodbye Brick Lane

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 62, 7 September 1978 · p. 14 of the scan · 125 words

The scan: sc-n62-sep-7-1978.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). Number 13 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: Goodbye Brick Lane.

page 14 of the scan

Three-panel cartoon strip: a singer belts out "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and a dejected National Front member, under a raincloud, gets an anthem of his own — "Goodbye bloody Brick Lane!!" — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 13, Socialist Challenge no. 62, 7 September 1978, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. (A tree; a tag on it reads "#13".)

2. (A singer, open-mouthed:) "Goodbye yellow brick road ~ ♫♪"

3. "And now perhaps someone will compose an anthem for the fascists like this ..."

4. (A glum man in an NF badge walks away under a raincloud; a row of figures stands behind him.) "Goodbye bloody Brick Lane!!"

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