Bad Taste: Ho-bloody-ho

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 128, 3 January 1980 · p. 10 of the scan · 105 words

The scan: sc-n128-jan-03-1980.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 10, 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: Ho-bloody-ho. Note: printed without the Bad Taste title panel or a number, at the head of the letters page, between no. 62 (13 December 1979) and no. 63 (17 January 1980), so probably an unnumbered Christmas extra.

page 10 of the scan

Four-panel Christmas cartoon strip, printed without its title panel: a British soldier in Northern Ireland is delighted that Santa Claus has left him a present, which blows up in his face. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 128, 3 January 1980, page 10. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. (A British soldier on a street in Northern Ireland:) "Oh look! It's Santa Claus!"

2. "... And he's left me a present!"

3. "WHUMP" "DOOM"

4. (Blackened, shaking his fist; "Ho ho ho" in the air:) "And ho-bloody-ho to you too, mate!!"

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