Bad Taste no. 26: confused in London

The scan: sc-n75-dec-7-1978.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 15, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 26 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: confused in London.

page 15 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: the cartoonist, sitting in London drinking revolting London Guinness, finds himself confused about everything and is relieved to get back to the quiet simplicity of Belfast. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 26, Socialist Challenge no. 75, 7 December 1978, page 15. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #26. (A bottle of ink.)

2. "So I was sitting in London mumbling about things political — my equivalent of conversation."

3. "And later, as I sat drinking revolting London Guiness, I recalled how often I had used the word 'confused'."

4. "Confused about what's happening in Iran — confused by what the P.A.C. says about U.T.O.M. — confused about everything —"

5. (Walking through a Belfast street of rubble.) "Such a relief to get back to the pubs of Belfast and the quiet simplicity of things Irish!"