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 20 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the Tom Robinson Band.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 20, Socialist Challenge no. 69, 26 October 1978, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #20. (The cartoonist at his drawing board.) "I'm bored."
2. (Walking through the city.) Thinks: "— Been slaving all week over a hot drawingboard — time I had some relaxation."
3. Thinks: "Hm-m — the Tom Robinson Band is in Belfast this week — that'd be good — some nice music there —"
4. (A comrade appears in a thought-cloud:) "Really comrade! How can you tolerate such stuff? This petit bourgeois, reformist, opportunistic, decadent, revanchist, unhistorical, class-collaborationist deviationist etc. etc. etc." Cartoonist thinks: "Jee-sus! I'm being haunted by this idiot!"
