Let's make this birthday one to remember.

78 years old (Born on July 19, 1946)

Happy Birthday, Larry Gonick! Your cartoons have not only brought humor into our classrooms but truly transformed the art of storytelling. Who else could compress billions of years into illustrated panels without skipping a laugh? Clearly, inventing history’s funniest Big Bang illustration is no small feat—and yet you’ve excelled at it effortlessly.

From ancient Egypt to quantum physics—you've managed more punchlines per page than anyone ever imagined possible. Thanks for making learning wildly entertaining (and giving procrastinating students everywhere plenty to cram overnight). May your day be grander and funnier than anything you've brilliantly sketched across time itself!