Bad Taste: the hunger strike

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 176, 10 December 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 158 words

The scan: sc-n176-dec-10-1980.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 7, 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 hunger strike. Note: no number printed; the strip had been absent for some weeks (it says so itself) during the 1980 H-Block hunger strike.

page 7 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: the cartoonist explains the recent absence of a comic strip — there is the hunger strike, and it is hard to think about anything else; but a few Irish men and women possibly going to their deaths is hardly worth bothering the British working class about. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 176, 10 December 1980, page 7. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac.

2. "You may have noticed the absence of a comic strip in this paper recently ..."

3. "... But there's this hunger strike, y'see .. ... and it's hard to think about anything else!"

4. "It's nothing unusual, of course .... a few Irish men and women possibly going to their deaths ...."

5. "It's hardly worth bothering the British working class about such a trivial thing ... ... such a common event!"

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