Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 24, 1976
Transcript:
Mike: Bernie! You did it, didn't you?! You actually sold your car so you can go to Scotland! Bernie: Michael, scientific investigation is a powerful narcotic! It has a wild, clear call of its own that won't be denied! Michael: Yeah, but why go all the way over to Scotland to answer it? We've got our own freaky phenomenon roaming about on the West Coast! Bernie: Perhaps, but his appeal is wearing thin. Mike: No, not brown - Bigfoot!
As a personal note I’m from the area where Bigfoot was invented it always drives me a little nuts how people insist it’s IMPOSSIBLE for it to be faked because it’d take such SKILL to fake the prints….
….when the area has an incredibly advanced sculptural art program, the kintetic sculpture race, and a lot of very bored redneck sculpture artists….