Sue Coe (b. 1951, England) is an English artist and illustrator, working primarily in drawing and printmaking. Coe studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and emigrated to the United States in 1972.
Coe is a keen observer, a 'graphic witness' to realities more often overlooked or avoided. She is a journalist who uses printed images in preference to words. For a quarter century she has explored factory farming, meat packing, aparteid, sweatshops, prisons, AIDS, and most recently, war. Her commentary on political events and social injustice is published in newspapers, magazines and books. Coe’s paintings and prints are auctioned as fund raisers for a variety of progressive causes, and since 1998, she has sold prints to benefit animal rights organizations. Currently, she sells work to benefit In Defense of Animals and United Poultry Concerns.
Coe was awarded the Outstanding National Activist Award by the Culture and Animals Foundation, was a Board Member for Farm Sanctuary USA from 1999-2001, and was a professor at Pratt Institute in New York.
