Bad Taste: terrorist fantasies

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 273, 10 December 1982 · p. 11 of the scan · 165 words

The scan: sc-no273.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 11, 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: terrorist fantasies. Note: unnumbered; Christmas 1982, beside a review of the Cormac collection "Cormac Strikes Back".

page 11 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip at Christmas: a man writes to Mr Tebbit that he can't afford a bike, to Mr Fowler about the National Health Service that was the envy of the world, and to Mrs Thatcher that he has yet to receive a reply to his letter bomb — as Christmas approaches his terrorist fantasies become more pronounced. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 273, 10 December 1982, page 11. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "Dear Mr. Tebbit, I've been on the dole for a long time but I can't afford a bike ...."

2. "Dear Mr. Fowler, Do you remember the good old days when Britain had a National Health service which was the envy of ...."

3. "Dear Mrs. Thatcher, I yet to receive a reply to my recent letter bomb ...."

4. "As Christmas approaches my terrorist fantasies become more and more pronounced!"

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