Jean-Claude Suares

Jean-Claude Suares (March 30, 1942 – July 30, 2013) was an artist, illustrator, editor, and creative consultant to many publications, and the first Op-Ed page art director at The New York Times.

Suares was born on March 30, 1942, in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Sephardic father. He and his family moved from Egypt to Italy when he was a teenager. Later, he moved to New York City, where he briefly attended Pratt Institute. In the 1960s, he joined the U.S. Army paratroopers and was sent to Vietnam, where he worked on staff for Stars and Stripes. He also spoke several languages. In 1973, Suares arranged an exhibition of Op-Ed art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. For over 30 years his comic drawings appeared in The New York Times, on the covers of The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and in other periodicals and books. He wrote, edited or designed scores of illustrated books. He was also involved in book publishing. He worked with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at Doubleday. He also designed Michael Jackson’s autobiography, Moonwalk. Suares was in one movie in 1973, It Happened in Hollywood.

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