Happy birthday to artist Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, an artist who has primarily worked for DC Comics over the years, at times on covers and inside of comics...and even on the style guides for DC.
Jose gave us this beautiful cover for Batman #321 (March, 1980), with the Joker celebrating his own birthday by torturing Batman, Robin, Alfred Pennyworth and James Gordon!

It's amazing how often you still see his art being used on T-shirts, posters, school supplies, etc. Unlike Marvel's mass market merchandise where each hero in a pastiche is drawn by a different artist and the whole image looks off as a result, with DC merch you never know if it's an original image or a cut & paste because JLGL drew practically every DC character at one time or another so there's never a styles clash.
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