On this day, March 31, 2013, illustrator Bob Clarke died in Seaford, Delaware. At age 17 Clarke worked as an assistant on Ripley’s Believe It or Not drawing the strip of Ripley’s found trivia. In the Army, Clarke worked for Stars and Stripes. Clarke’s work often appeared in advertisements and in MAD magazine, illustrating more than 600 articles and covers. Between 1987 and 1993  Clarke was the cartoonist of Spy vs. Spy.