Bad Taste: by jingo

The scan: sc-no247.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 4, 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: by jingo. Note: unnumbered; published during the Falklands war.

page 4 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip during the Falklands war: a beaming jingoist reads that the English army has won the war — what a lovely word — and the whole nation is united in an imperialist venture; his butler remarks that disastrous imperialist ventures have sometimes been a prelude to socialist revolution. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 247, 28 May 1982, page 4. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. CORMAC'S BAD TASTE.

2. "I read the news today — oboy!" "The English army has just won the war!"

3. "War! War!! War!!! Warwarwar! O, what a lovely word!"

4. "How wonderful to see the whole nation united and enthusiastic in an imperialist venture!" "By jingo!!"

5. (The butler:) "On the other hand, disastrous imperialist ventures have occasionally been a prelude to socialist revolution .." "*Sigh* Whatever happened to national unity?"