August 25, 1978
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/08/25
Cor there's a lot going on in this one. Crawdad boils, valuing one's art, using fine motor control to twitch your butthole for sculpting purposes. You name it. And that's before we even get to the mysteriously beguiling Garfield that absolutely captures Guy's attention.
Named wossnames/mentioned things of note:
BLIT / Langford's Basilisk: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
Qntm's wonderful LENA story: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
