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 42 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: vote Socialist Unity. Note: printed number blurred in the scan ("#4[?]"); by sequence it is no. 42.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 42, Socialist Challenge no. 93, 16 April 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE #4[?]. (Cormac peers over a wall carved with his name:) "What am I doing here?"
2. (A bespectacled man:) "He's there to remind you to vote Socialist Unity — and for Brendan Gallagher!" (Crowd:) "Wahey!"
3. (Two women:) "Is it a protest against the publication of work in Socialist Challenge containing images of violence against women?" "Or the fact that the texts were boring and incomprehensible?"
4. (Cormac on the wall:) "If you must know — I'm protesting the lack of financial support for Socialist Challenge — which provides them with an excuse for not having paid me recently!"
5. (A woman thinks:) "Ah! How empty life would be without Socialist Challenge! I must send them a donation today!"
