Bad Taste: the H-Block cell

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 73, 23 November 1978 · p. 14 of the scan · 115 words

The scan: sc-n73-nov-23-1978.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). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the H-Block cell. Note: printed number partly illegible ("#2[?]"); by sequence it is no. 24.

page 14 of the scan

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #[illegible]. (A cell window, its walls smeared.)

2. (A man in a corridor points at a doorway.) "What's this?"

3. (A cell with smeared walls.) "Why! I do believe it is ...."

4. "Aah .... the discreet charm of British democracy!"

5. (The cell; excrement oozes from the wall.) [no words]