Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 27, 1974
Transcript:
Duke: December 27th! You're kidding! I missed my deadline again! Zonker: Deadline for what, Uncle Duke? Duke: My piece! My piece for the Christmas issue of "Rolling Stone"! The finest, most savage article I've ever cranked out! Zonker: Oh, dear... what was it on? Duke: My shoplifting conviction!! I've been writing the thing for months! I'd finally beaten it into shape!! Zonker: Let's see... Duke: It was my major opus!! Zonker: "Fear and Loathing At Macy's Men's Wear"?
Or as Black Adder’s Baldrick would put it, “my magnificent octopus”