Sue Coe

An activist whose art is a blend of visual journalism, social protest, and propaganda, Sue Coe is a widely acclaimed painter, illustrator, printmaker, and comic book artist whose expressive, political works engage with issues such as animal rights, social injustice, war, anticapitalism, and racial inequality. Her woodcuts and linocuts, such as Birth of Fascism (2017) and Fueling Extinction (2020) are deliberately blunt, and recall the coarsely illustrated broadsides of J.G. Posada. Filled with violent imagery and a scathing anger at the state of the world, Coe’s painted works, such as Move Bombing and Monetarism (both 1987), form part of more complex visual narratives told over several pages. An early contributor to Art Spiegelman’s iconic Raw magazine, Coe’s work has also been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Time.