The Bad Taste of Wally Warp

The scan: sc-n67-oct-12-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of the Comment page, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 18 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip, published a fortnight after the Anti-Nazi League's second Carnival (24 September 1978).

page 14 of the scan

Six-panel cartoon strip: a bespectacled, moustached sectarian explains why he won't support the Anti-Nazi League, then strides off across the waves. — Cormac, "The Bad Taste of Wally Warp" (Bad Taste no. 18), Socialist Challenge no. 67, 12 October 1978, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. THE BAD TASTE OF WALLY WARP — Cormac, no. 18

2. "You ask me why I don't support the A.N.L. —"

3. "Well, it's obvious that the A.N.L. is a — yech! — popular front!"

4. "And I never support anything popular."

5. "And in any respectable paper one can read that the whole thing is a recruiting ground for THAT organization!"

6. "And if Trotsky had wanted me to work with the S.W.P. he would have said so in 'The Programme'!" (He walks off across the water.)