In a vibrant, whimsically chaotic birthday scene, picture a burly male heavy metal musician with an impressive mane of hair, styled in a way that suggests he's just stepped off stage after a headbanging encore. He's rocking out on a comically oversized bass guitar shaped like a slice of pizza, its strings made of spaghetti strands, capturing the spirit of playfulness and excess. His leather jacket is adorned with patches of cartoonish skulls and tiny birthday candles, each with a small flame, fluttering as if they are alive, a nod to Charles Schulz's playfulness.

The setting is an outdoor birthday party, with a backdrop inspired by a mash-up of Bill Watterson’s imaginative landscapes and Winsor McCay's dreamlike elements. The scene is dotted with inflatable castles shaped like medieval fortresses, where small cartoonish animals in party hats—reminiscent of Disney's anthropomorphic charm—are gleefully jumping around. In the foreground, a small robot, akin to Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy but dressed in a tuxedo and wielding a conductor's baton, is orchestrating the chaos, trying to keep the tempo with the musician’s wild riffs.

To the side, a gigantic birthday cake towers like a tiered castle, its icing swirling into spirals that mirror Hergé's clean lines in Tintin. The cake is occupied by tiny, mischievous, fairy-like creatures, similar to R. Crumb's eccentric characters, who are engaged in a frosting battle, slinging blobs of brightly colored icing at each other. A crowd of diverse characters from different cartoon realms, inspired by Art Spiegelman’s narrative depth, are gathered around, laughing and dodging the sweet projectiles.

Above the scene, a banner flutters, held aloft by a team of seagulls wearing bandanas, reminiscent of Gary Larson's quirky humor, with the words “Rock On Another Year!” emblazoned across it in bold, jagged letters. The scene is a delightful clash of the absurd and the celebratory, a true homage to the imaginative blend of storytelling and art from the greatest cartoonists.

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