Bad Taste no. 16: Rhodesia and UDI

The scan: sc-n65-sep-28-1978.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 16 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: Rhodesia and UDI.

page 14 of the scan

Six-panel cartoon strip told as a desert-island fable: a white man and a black man are stranded, the white man murders the black man and declares UDI, then waits for the British to impose sanctions — while an oil tanker steams past. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 16, Socialist Challenge no. 65, 28 September 1978, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. (A signpost reads "#16".)

2. Caption: "An island."

3. Caption: "Two men, one black, one white, are stranded."

4. Caption: "They have a motor-boat ... but no fuel." (The boat thinks: "'What is to be done?'")

5. Caption: "The white man murders the black, declares U.D.I."

6. (An oil tanker on the horizon.) Caption: "And waits for the British to impose sanctions."