1987: Disreputable lawyer and perpetual scandal Steve Dallas has announced the abdication of his controversial metal group Deathtöngue under grilling by several prominent senator's wives including Tippy Gorp during the week's senate hearings on the "porn rock" phenomenon. Dallas, the group's manager, has sworn to do away with the band's nasty name and image, now to record under the considerably more wholesome banner "Billy and the Boingers".
The above is, of course, entirely fictional, the Deathtöngue/Billy and the Boingers saga in fact a part of Berkeley Breathed's rich Bloom County universe. The strip, which ran from 1980-1989 (and then from 1989-1995 with an abbreviated cast as the Sunday-only Outland) won the artist the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the very same year that the strip's fifth bound collection, Billy and the Boingers Bootlegs was first published.
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Below, the A and B sides of the limited edition flexi-disk included in the Billy and the Boingers Bootlegs book; the eponymous single "I'm A Boinger", recorded by the mysterious Harry Pitts Band (cute name, but good luck finding any info about them online), and B side "U Stink But I (Heart) U", recorded by New Jersey hardcore outfit Mucky Pup. On the disk's liner notes, writing credits for "Boinger" are attributed to Mr. Steve Dallas, "U Stink" (later to become a jingle for Wheat Thins brand crackers) to Bill the Cat.
Take a moment to hit up Bloom County Zone, an impressive fan archive of strips and images, and another to lament that a full length edit of A Wish For Wings That Work, the 1991 Amblin produced Opus the Penguin Christmas special is nowhere- NOWHERE to be found online.
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