IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Bad Taste no. 21: Jennifer Brown on Rhodesia

· Socialist Challenge No. 71, 9 November 1978 · p. 12 of the scan · 157 words

The scan: sc-n71-nov-9-1978.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 12, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 21 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: Jennifer Brown on Rhodesia. Note: printed '#21', as was the previous week's strip (2 November 1978); in sequence it is no. 22.

page 12 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip: two men in a bar mock a press report by Jennifer Brown on her return to Rhodesia, where she found groups of Africans "littering" the once-immaculate streets.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 21, Socialist Challenge no. 71, 9 November 1978, page 12. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #21. (A man at a bar table reads a paper:) "Someone named Jennifer Brown is writing about Rhodesia (i.e., Zimbabwe) — she's just returned there after a year's absence."

2. "She ventures into town and notices: 'Small groups of Africans add to the littered look of the once-immaculate streets'."

3. (His companion:) "Oh aye! They've a quare cheek them blacks — wandering about as if they had a right to be there!"

4. (Walking off together.) "She says that she fears greatly for her friends there." "Dear me! How sad!"

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