Bad Taste no. 41: from the barrel of a gun

The scan: sc-n92-apr-19-1979.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). Number 41 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: from the barrel of a gun.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a revolutionary nationalist, a sectarian ("Pabloite!") and a bearded drinker in a pub react to an assassination — perhaps the recent demise of some British politician — the drinker's grief keeping him awake four seconds in a row. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 41, Socialist Challenge no. 92, 19 April 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #41.

2. (A figure emerging from a gun barrel, labelled "A revolutionary nationalist!?") Thinks: "From the barrel of a gun?!"

3. (A sectarian:) "Hah! Capitulating again to elitist militarism!" "Pabloite!"

4. (A bearded drinker in a pub thinks:) "Is all this an obscure reference to the recent demise of some British politician?"

5. "Ah, yes! I remember now ... my grief at such senseless violence kept me awake four seconds in a row ..."