Coe, Sue (1951–)

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Coe, Sue (1951–)

English illustrator. Born 1951 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England; attended Royal College of Art, 1970–72.

Moved to New York (1972); in her social-protest art, dealt with many issues, including AIDS crisis, the Gulf wars, apartheid, invasion of Grenada, skinheads, and killing animals for food and research; exhibited at Hirshhorn Museum (1994); frequent contributor to Village Voice, The New Yorker, New York Times, Time and Newsweek.