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Further Down on Maggie's Farm into Smas spirit with Steve Bel dealing with Turkeys and politics. The 'boring' old Turkey Trot, insists that Strikes Back (Information on Bemajority of the cartoons are Phoblacht/Republican News, the Sinn Fein paper, but also included are many from the Bad Taste series SOGaIISE Challenge, where Cormac turns his CaISUC .pen political themes in Britain.
Humour can play an important part in war and Strikes Back war humour vengeance for a British audience as he cuts the enemy down to size lampooning British politicians, belittlDear Mr. Fowler you remember the ritain had a Nationa oia cays wne Health service which was the envy of without la credible and fighting turkey vanguard every turkey is a goner. Luckily reformist realism survives and the SDP turkey scorn the mad trot' and fulfill their ing all function by getting hung up. show that if sou ges Which you are not careful, trots will ruin Xmas even for turkeys! Not only turkeys, but Tebing. troops and police and boosting the morale of the oppressed by depicting a valiant armed resistance struggle.
Cormac's deft pen coupled to a surrealist imagination multiplies the effect. which in its most crazy moments seems to outstrip reality, while at same time prodding the reader's mind to meet it.
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