Let's make this birthday one to remember.

75 years old (Born on January 01, 1950)

Happy Birthday, Mark Beyer! Celebrating yet another year of delightfully dark creativity—your quirky illustrations and macabre humor have shown us that life's shadows can indeed wear a smile (or at least an ironic grimace). From the captivating bleakness of *A Disturbing Evening* to your provocative tales in *Dead Stories*, you've perfectly captured our deepest existential anxieties—with style.

Yet somehow through all those themes of depression, despair, and mutilation—you've cheerily etched your cartoons into modern classics. Here's hoping this birthday brings fresh inspiration without too much torment—and just enough cake-cutting chaos for one amusingly unsettling evening. Cheers!