Billy and the Boingers Bootleg [Bloom County]

Berke Breathed's Billy and the Boingers Bootleg is a one-shot, full-color comic-strip collection from 1987, published by Little, Brown. Gathered from the height of the Bloom County phenomenon, this volume spotlights the titular fictional heavy-metal band—Billy, Opus, and their crew—in a series of raucous, satirical strips. It captures the era's pop-culture chaos with Breathed's signature blend of sharp political wit and absurdist humor, offering a standalone dose of the strip's most musically-minded madness.