Let's make this birthday one to remember.

71 years old (Born on April 04, 1954)

Happy Birthday, Tom Cheney! You've spent decades making us chuckle—from the sophisticated readers of The New Yorker to the buttoned-up suits at The Wall Street Journal. Your cartoons have graced over 500 magazines, proving that humor truly is universal (and apparently recession-proof). Who else could bridge such radically different audiences with just a pen and wit?

Here's wishing you another year filled with sharp pencils, sharper punchlines, and plenty more hilarious insights into life's absurdities. May your birthday be as timelessly funny as your best cartoons—and may editors everywhere continue to say "Yes!" faster than we can laugh!