On this day, July 30, 2013, illustrator and op ed editorial illustrator Jean-Claude Suares died in Englewood, New Jersey. After emigrating to New York Suares attended Pratt Institute briefly before joining the Army. In Vietnam he did a stint on Stars and Stripes the Army newspaper. He worked for various publications and in 1970 was involved in the creation of Op-Ed page illustrations at The New York Times that responded to the printed text.