Steve Refreshes the parts
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-10-14Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 13 →
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Maggie's Farm', by Steve Bell 95) GET up the noses of your reactionary relatives and cement your friendship with fellow socialists: give them both a copy of Steve Bell's latest volume of Right wingers will gnash their teeth at Maggie's Farm, the Falklands strips and the debunking of the SDP. Religious nuts will fume at the antics of Lord God Almighty. And socialists with any life in them at The drawings are pure fantasy and exaggeration: the dialogue is imaginative fiction: but the mixture holds more truth 'than the outward form might suggest. Harry Hardnose and his Fleet Street hacks in particular are all too real a feature in the lives of millions: they really are absurd exaggerations.
We can learn by laughing - and learn to laugh ourselves as well, in Bell's occasional light parody Use the book as a litmus- test in cases where a person's sense of humour is in doubt. Anyone reading through without a smile is dead for the purposes of cartoons this Christmas.
all will roll around with laughter. the self-righteous ultra-left.
anything at all.
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