They had funds, offices in the Empire State Building and lots of great contributors. JC was boasting to Chwast, who’s name I kind of heard about as part of something called Push Pin, how it was going to be the greatest humor magazine ever, based on a cross between the English Private Eye and French Charlie Hebdo but American. One day, not too long into the job, I heard JC on the phone in the office we both shared with Sue Graham, Charlie Mingus’s future wife, talking to Seymour Chwast about doing a poster for a new magazine called Inkling that JC was co-founding as its art director. The next day, I was assigned to do a weekly drawing under the banner “A Heller,” and over time, a couple of covers - all assigned by JC. A week later, JC told me that he was going to show my batch of drawings to the editor, Sam Edwards. When I arrived for work the next day, he showed me what to do with a glue pot and wax, sat me down next to another mechanical artist and said “watch him!” After a week, that person, dour by any standard, disappeared, leaving me alone and untrained. So when I left his office, I called around furiously to anyone I knew who was artsy, though no one could tell me what a mechanical was.
Instead, JC asked if I could do mechanicals. All I really wanted was to get his approval, have him see my innate genius and publish my introspective scribbles. He looked at my work far more quickly than I would have liked, and gave me some pointers about drafting inks and dyes. That was not the hippie look I had become used to seeing at the underground papers where I dropped off my folio. When he came to greet me he was wearing an ascot. JC was a bit stout, a little squat yet an imposing figure back then, with a slight indefinable accent.
It was, obviously, the Free Press, not the Times. Suares, who my parents’ housekeeper said called from The New York Times. I was published in the Rat and The Avatar, was interviewed by the art director at Evergreen (which I much later art directed), and I got a call back from a Mr. You see, when I was 17 and about to graduate high school, I whipped up a folder of autobiographical cartoons I had done and took them around to every periodical from The New Yorker to Evergreen Review to The Freep and other NYC undergrounds. JC Suares by Brad Holland in my office at The New York Review of Sex.Ī couple of years before Suares became art director of the OpEd and Book Review, he gave me my first job doing mechanicals for The New York Free Press. This was like a musician getting a hit record after working countless Bar Mitzvahs and weddings – well almost. Beside Holland (I can still recall how excited I was by his premiere illo), others who worked for underground papers like Screw,The East Village Other and more, were appearing regularly on the OpEd. To understand how incredible this was, the Times barely used illustration and all of a sudden one of “us” was art director with the vision and power to engage “our” generation’s illustrators. Holland was given the most important outlet of his career in the fabled New York Times on the OpEd page that Suares art directed. His doctors said no one will ever know how he contracted it.īrad Holland was the first person I emailed upon learning the news. It is a tragedy that a vibrant and commanding 71-year-old could be struck down by something so random yet sinister as a rogue microbe. On July 30, Jean-Claude (JC) Suares died suddenly from a rare bacterial infection, his wife Nina Duran told me. I hope that somewhere memories actually live on and death is just an earthly delusion.
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