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Improving: Sue Coe

Overall, this article is extremely sparse and much of it needs to be improved. To further flesh out Wikipedia's article on Sue Coe, I plan to strengthen the lead and biography sections and verify/add sources. I will also add a "Works" section to highlight her prints, illustrations, and comics, and an "Activism" section to highlight Coe's involvement in the animal rights movement and anti-war sentiments. "Publications" and "See also" sections will close the article.

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 * 1) Lead will summarize all of the following:
 * 2) Biography
 * 3) Early Life
 * 4) Grew up next to a slaughterhouse
 * 5) Education
 * 6) Royal College of Art in London
 * 7) Career
 * 8) Move to NYC
 * 9) Influences
 * 10) Contributions to periodicals
 * 11) Most recent work
 * 12) Works
 * 13) Illustrations
 * 14) Drawings
 * 15) Comics, Books, and Visual Essays
 * 16) Other Media
 * 17) Exhibitions
 * 18) Activism
 * 19) Animal Rights movement
 * 20) Politics
 * 21) Anti-war
 * 22) Intersection of art and politics?
 * 23) Prison reform
 * 24) Publications (Edit to chronological order)
 * 25) How to Commit Suicide in South Africa (with Holly Metz)
 * X
 * 1) Dead Meat
 * 2) Pitt's Letter
 * 3) Sheep of Fools
 * 4) Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation
 * 5) The Animal's Vegan Manifesto
 * 6) See Also
 * 7) BLAB!
 * 8) Movies
 * 9) Newspaper/Magazine articles?

Selected Bibliography

Baker, Steve. Artist Animal, University of Minnesota Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wisc/detail.action?docID=1204679.

Coe, Mandy, et al. Sue Coe: Police State (Exhibition Catalog), Richmond, VA: Anderson Gallery/School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy, 1987. Print.

Coe, Sue. Dead Meat, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. 1995. Print.

Coe, Sue. "Inside the Abattoir." Earth Island Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer2012, pp. 27-29. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,uid&db=aph&AN=77462522&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Eisenman, Stephen F.. The Cry of Nature : Art and the Making of Animal Rights, Reaktion Books, Limited, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wisc/detail.action?docID=1644076.

Gosse, Johanna. "Art on the Front Lines." Radical History Review, no. 106, Winter2010, pp. 198-214. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,uid&db=aph&AN=47676709&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Heller, Steven. Design Literacy (continued): Understanding Graphic Design, New York: Allworth Press, 1999. Print.

Heller, Steven and Pettit, Elinor. Design Dialogues, New York: Allworth Press, 1998. Print.

Kuspit, Donald. Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries, New York: Allworth Press, 2000. Print.

Kuzniar, Alice. "Where Is the Animal After Post-Humanism?." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Fall2011, pp. 17-40. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,uid&db=hlh&AN=74386678&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Loughery, John. “Woman's Art Journal.” Woman's Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 1991, pp. 48–49. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1358289.

Meyer, Jerry D. “Profane and Sacred: Religious Imagery and Prophetic Expression in Postmodern Art.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 65, no. 1, 1997, pp. 19–46. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1465817.

Slowik, Mary. "The Ethics of Audience Positioning in the Paintings of Leon Golub and the Prints of Sue Coe." Narrative, vol. 15, no. 3, Oct. 2007, pp. 373-389. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,uid&db=aph&AN=26111975&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

“Sue Coe: Direct.” Graphic Witness: Visual Arts & Social Commentary[Sue Coe Entry Page], www.graphicwitness.org/coe/enter.htm.

Article Draft/Improvements (Copied from existing article on Sue Coe)

Sue Coe (born 21 February 1951) is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing and printmaking, and often in the form of illustrated books and comics. Her work is in the tradition of social protest art and is highly political. Coe's work often centers around animal rights advocacy, though she also creates work that centralizes the rights of marginalized peoples and criticizes capitalism. Her commentary on political events and social injustice are published in newspapers, magazines and books, as well as hung in museum and gallery exhibitions. She lives in upstate New York.

Early life and education
Coe was born 21 February 1951 in Tamworth, Staffordshire in England. She grew up next-door to a slaughterhouse and developed a passion to stop cruelty to animals. According to Coe, her family lived directly behind a hog farm and were continually exposed to the stench from the slaughterhouse and screams from the animals.

At age 16, Coe started studying at Chelsea College of Arts, where she graduated with a B.A. in 1970 at the age of 18. Coe went on to studied graphic design at Royal College of Art in London, between 1970–1973, however she was too young to attend and she had to lie about her age on the college application. After receiving her M.A. from Royal College of Art, she moved to New York City (around 1972 or 1973), where she remained until 2001. Coe had been an art teacher, and decided to fully dedicated herself to art making by 1978.

Works
Coe is a graphic artist and visual essayist. Though she primarily works in printmaking and illustration, she also practices in other visual media, including painting. She often uses books and visual essays to explore various social topics including: factory farming, meat packing, apartheid, sweatshops, prison-industrial complex, AIDS, and war. Coe cites activists as the primary audience for her work.

Coe's work is coupled to her activism, though the artist recoils from the "political artist" label. Nevertheless, Coe's works have notable political messages. Police State, an exhibition organized by the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, showcased works illustrating Coe's anti-war sentiments and critiques of international governments. Among the works included were Your Class Enemy (The Great Miners Strike), England is a Bitch, and a number of Coe's New York Times illustrations. Coe also expressed anti-war sentiments during Desert Storm through an illustration published in Entertainment Weekly.

The artist's subjects are the victimized. She often depicts harsh realities,   and her subjects are largely animals and humans oppressed by social and political forces beyond their control. For example, Coe and collaborator Holly Metz explore apartheid and the murder of Steve Biko in How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, a visual essay originally published by Raw Books and Graphics in 1983. Sheep of Fools (2005), a horrific look at the conditions of sheep trade, and Dead Meat (1996), a journalistic piece illustrating the brutality of slaughterhouses throughout North America, are both longer narrative investigations into animal cruelty.

Coe's paintings and prints are auctioned as fundraisers for a variety of progressive causes. Since 1998, she has sold prints to benefit animal rights organizations. Her influences include the works of Chaim Soutine and José Guadalupe Posada, Käthe Kollwitz, Francisco Goya, and Rembrandt.

In 2013 she was a visiting artist at Parsons School of Design and taught about social awareness in art.

Her artwork is featured in the animal rights movie, Earthlings.

Awards
Coe was elected into the National Academy of Design, as an Associate Academician in 1993, and became a full Academician by 1994.

In 2005, PETA progress awards named Sheep of Fools, Coe's collaboration with Judy Brody, Nonfiction Book of the Year.

She was awarded the 2015 Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts award from Women's Caucus for Art, for her dedication to art and activism. In 2013, Dickinson College honored Coe with the Dickinson College Arts Award, in recognition as an influential cultural figure in the United States. In 2017, Coe was awarded the SGCI Lifetime Achievement award in Printmaking from Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI).

Museum collections
Coe's work is in the collections of various international museums including: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Brooklyn Museum, and others.

Criticism
Coe has been criticized by Cary Wolfe and Steven Baker for "audience positioning" and using "stylistic sentimentality" to incite outrage and illicit specific responses from viewers. She has also been criticized for using stereotypes, thereby creating dimensional representations of depicted victims. Coe is also a harsh critic of herself, retroactively condemning X, her graphic companion to Malcom X's autobiography for the way it iconized him.

Illustration and design
As an illustrator, she is a frequent contributor to World War 3 Illustrated, and has seen her work published in The Progressive, Mother Jones, Blab, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Newsweek The Nation and other periodicals.

Her illustration was used on the cover of the book, Animals, Property, and the Law (1995) by Gary Francione.