Illustrations are listed chronologically, beginning with the most recent. The hypertext will link you to illustrations from the articles described [author,title/subtitle, magazine, date, and in some cases, caption]. In addition to illustrations for articles, some images are stand alone editorial opinion, or they illustrate an editorial essay. Right: inside flap from Police State exhibition catalog
2005
War Carousel wrap around coverWorld War 3 Illustrated #36
"This 25th anniversary issue is subtitled 'Neo-Con', and is heavy with first-person reportage by victims and survivors of the global struggle for domination of the Middle East and its vast oil reserves, called by some'The War on Terror' or just 'Bush's America'. An impressive array of political and artcomix creators contribute, from the cover by Sue Coe to the inside contributions from Steve Brodner, Justin Wertham and Spain Rodriguez, Joe Sacco, Eric Drooker, Tom Tomorrow, editors Inzana and Kuper and many others." -- from a review by Alan David Doane
September 19, 2005.
untitled illustration for the article, Help Was Never on the Way by Leana Stormont
Satya Magazine, November 2005.
Died Purple, an illustration for Comix Nation in
The Nation Magazine, May 23, 2005 page 7.
2003
Karen Olsson The Torturers Next Door "The INS says it can't deport them. The Justice Department won't prosecute them. Tortureres, death-squad leaders, and human-rights criminals who seek refuge in the United States have nothing to fear -- except their victims."
Mother Jones June 2003
Michael Specter The Extremist: The woman behind the most successful radical group in America. The article refers to Ingrid Newkirk, leader of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The illustration is titled Egg Machine.
The New Yorker Magazine [A Reporter at Large] April 4, 2003
Voyage to Slaughter, an illustration for the War Resisters League 2004 desk calendar. Every year for the last 48 years the War Resisters League has published the Peace Calendar, featuring artwork and/or text with themes ranging from a directory of films for peace and justice, stories of nonviolence success, political poetry to vegetarian recipes or celebrations of resistance.
Over the years hundreds of authors and artists have participated in our calendar projects including Grace Paley, Dennis Brutus, the Bread and Puppet Theatre, Ben Shahn, Mary Frank, Dave Dellinger, and Coretta Scott King. The working theme for this 2004 calendar is "Progressive Art: Exposing the Lies, Revealing the Truth." In this dangerous time of war and revenge, increasing military budgets, diminishing civil liberties, corporate arrogance and mainstream control of the media, political art has become ever more vital and necessary to counter the hate, the lies, and the misinformation that we are subjected to every day. We are lucky to have such a wealth of progressive political artists, providing alternative views, radical ideas, and simple truths.
2002
War Street, illustration for the essay, The End of Empire by William Greider
The Nation September 23, 2002.
911
World War Three Illustrated, #32, September 11th issue
Kabul Zoo: Lion blinded by hand grenade
Animals' Agenda March/April 2002
Terrorism -- they test on animals first (from The Tragedy of War print cycle)
Animals' Agenda January/February 2002
2001
Tulare, CA. Man dumps four stray puppies into an agricultural
shredding machine, because he was tired of them making a mess.
The mother and fifth puppy survived.
After pleading no contest to throwing four Labrador-mix puppies into an agricultural shredding machine last July near Tulare, California, Brandon James Ferguson was recently sentenced to three years and eight months in prison. During sentencing, the prosecutor cited the thousands of letters from outraged citizens around the world, calling for the maximum sentence of four years and four months. The mother of the four 2-month-old puppies and one remaining puppy are at the Companion Animal Medical Center in Visalia, awaiting adoption.
Animals' Agenda September/October 2001
"Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse
and thinks: they're only animals." --Theodor Adorno
Animals' Agenda July/August 2001
Silence of the Lambs || detail
Animals' Agenda May/June 2001
Andrew Purvis and Dejan Anastasijevic, The Bloody Red Berets
Time [World - page 48] March 19, 2001
Not Fit for Human Consumption
Animals' Agenda March/April 2001
Queenie Escapes the Slaughterhouse
Animals' Agenda January/February 2001
2000
Karen Valby, reviewing Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, by Ted Conover,
selected as nonfiction book of the year image detail
Entertainment Weekly [Books - page 133] December 22-29, 2000
Bushmeat -- those with guns eat first
Animals' Agenda November/December 2000
Nadine Gordimer, Refusing to 'Live with AIDS'
New York Times, [Op-Ed] Friday, December 1, 2000
Can the Canned Hunts
Animals' Agenda September/October 2000
Jacque Lynn Schultz The Pit Pendulum ASPCA Animal Watch, Fall, 2000
with illustrations from Pit's Letter
Leg Hold Trap, used on invitation for "Yes on 97" Garden Party fund raiser, held September 9, 2000 sponsored by Protect Pets and Wildlife [Pro PAW], PO Box 40372, Portland Oregon.
Goat gene + spidersilk gene = bulletproof vest
Animals' Agenda July/August 2000
illustration from dedication page of Pit's Letter in an article by
Ariana Huemer, Scapegoats and Underdogs: The Pit Bull Dilemma
Animals' Agenda July/August 2000
This article also includes a description by Coe of her first meeting with Mole, the abandoned pit bull she later adopted.
Per Ola and Emily DAulaire, Dancing with Death
Readers Digest June, 2000 p. 90
Abandoned in a Massachusetts cemetary...
caption: Abandoned in a Massachusetts cemetary -- in the freezing cold, a starving greyhound tries to eat a dead cat through her racing muzzle
Animals' Agenda May/June 2000
Gail Caldwell, Ghost Story a review of Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The Boston Globe [Books] Sunday April 30, 2000 page J5
Its cold. They need their coats back.
Animals' Agenda March/April 2000
What is there to celebrate?
Animals' Agenda January/February 2000
1999
Drop-off center
Animals' Agenda November/December 1999
Crucified coyote
Animals' Agenda September/October 1999
It's a cultural thing
Animals' Agenda August 1999
cover. Flinch (Vertigo: DC Comics) August 1999
They can't fly away
Animals' Agenda July 1999
cover. The Progressive June 1999 see also a poem by Veronica Keefer
June Jordan. From the Kosovo Series: First Three Poems
The Progressive [Just Inside the Door] June 1999
Seymour M. Hersh, Saddam's Best Friend: How the C.I.A. made it a lot easier for the Iraqi leader to rearm.
The New Yorker Magazine [Annals of Espionage] April 5, 1999
Judith Caesar, A View from the Gulf
The Progressive February, 1999
caption: "I saw a wire-service photo of a American soldier standing proudly
next to a bomb. On the bomb was scrawled,
'Here's a Ramadan present from Chad Ber...'"
Alec Wilkinson, Notes Left Behind: The language of suicide
The New Yorker Magazine February 15, 1999
Donna Foote, 'You Could Get Raped' --The inside story of one young woman's
terrifying ordeal at the hands of a cyberstalker
Newsweek [Science & Technology] February 8, 1999
J. A. Lobbia, Heartless Bastard: Hundreds of clients at a Brooklyn mental hospital
suffer as Mayor Giuliani plays payback politics
The Village Voice [cover] January 12, 1999
editorial cartoon, Be All You Can Be!
The Nation, January 4, 1999
1998
David Van Biema, In Search of Moses
Time Magazine December 14, 1998
Rob Tannenbaum, Stalk This Way -- Chris Carter reveals his inspiration for the X Files
Details June 1998
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Things that make the Sculders Nervous
The Debate Within: Animal Rights and Abortion, cover article
The Animals' Agenda May/June 1998
essays by Carol J. Adams, Abortion & Animals: keeping women in the equation
John Lawrene Hill, How Vegetarianism Led Me to a (qualified) Pro-life Position
Gary Francione, Abortion & Animal Rights: are they comparable issues?
Colman McCarthy, selections from September/October 1988 interview in The Animals' Agenda
editorial cartoon
The Nation April 13, 1998
Sue Coe, Organ Harvester
The Progressive [I for an Eye] February, 1998
Andrew Osterland, The CATs Are Out of the Bag: Catastrophe bonds cushion insurers -- and alarm reinsurers
Business Week [Finance: insurance] January 26, 1998
1997
Matt Hendrickson Notorious B.I.G., 1973-1997:
The hip-hop community mourns as another rap star is gunned down
Rolling Stone April 17, 1997
Ethan Smith, Revival: World of the Wars
New York Magazine February 3, 1997
Starstruck
Scott L. Malcomson, The Unquiet Ship: What happened aboard the freighter Dubai
that led to the shocking fate of its stowaways -- and to the haunting of its crew?
The New Yorker Magazine [A Reporter at Large] January 20, 1997
1996
Steven Heller, Drawn and Quartered: A little blood always gets spilled when political cartoonists skewer public figures. ...what makes caricature flourish...20 examples of recent years...the stories behind the art.
Mother Jones November/December, 1996
The Bush Years: Supreme Cruelty
"This [image] was part of a series for Rolling Stone magazine. These days, I'm attempting to do a deeper analysis of why we're in this situation, as opposed to just reacting to the latest onslaught of the right. What surprises me about doing political caricatures is that it enhances the ego of the person, the politician one's depicting. It doesn't really harm them. They are immune to any sort of caricature. Any attention in the media -- positive or negative -- is just attention for them."Cover illustration for feature article Baiting Immigrants
The Progressive September 1996
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte, Heartbreak for Latinos
Julie Light, Women Bear the Brunt
David Van Biema, The Gospel Truth? The iconoclastic and provocative Jesus Seminar
argues that not much of the New Testament can be trusted. If so, what are Christians to believe?
Time Magazine [Religion] April 8, 1996
The Crucifixion
album cover, The X-Files
back cover, Billboard March 3, 1996
Andrew Ross, Dress to Oppress: on the return of the sweatshop
ARTFORUM March 1996
Ten year old floor worker putting on labels, 1994
Presser, 1994
1995
The letter T from 1995 A to Z
Entertainment Weekly 1995 Year End Special Edition, December 29, 1995/January 6, 1996
Bob Strauss, Frightful Sites -- The Psycho Home Page, Zombie Death Dungeon, and Hell beckon with promises of the macabre this Halloween, but not all sites deliver a wicked web.
Entertainment Weekly November 3, 1995
Bob Herbert [In America], Kids Pay the Price: Awakening to gun violence
The New York Times [Op-Ed] October 30, 1995
Power 101: #76 portrait of Madonna
Entertainment Weekly October 27, 1995
Benjamin Svetkey, No Wonder He's Called FOX: The teeny bikini. The big, um, brain.
Why X-Filer David Duchovny is TV's newest pinup boy.
X-treme Dream: Assorted eerie aliens and other bad memories
come back to haunt FBI special agent Mulder (David Duchovny)
Entertainment Weekly September 29, 1995
Burke J. Balch, Managed Medicare: Medicare for the elderly should not be rationed
The New York Times [Op-Ed] September 15, 1995
Bob Herbert [In America], Cops Off the Pedestal: No justice without police integrity
The New York Times [Op-Ed] September 8, 1995
Frances Fox Piven, Poorhouse Politics
The Progressive February 1995
cover illustration
"For the poor, it's back to the workhouse..."
1994
Jonathan Rauch, Starve Lobbyists, Not Congress
The New York Times [Op-Ed] September 30, 1994
Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Long, Steep, Bloody Slide / A nation robbed of greatness
by a military hatchet man with the vision of a mole.
The New York Times [Op-Ed] August 22, 1994
"Last week the general dismissed the leaders of the striking petroleum workers unions..."
H. Brandt Ayers, The Death of Civility
The New York Times [Op-Ed] July 16, 1994
"Tabloid TV, talk shows and televangelists' broadcasts...are especially virulent because there is no longer a fairness doctrine requiring balance."
Terry McMillan An Icon, But Not a Hero / For white folks, the ideal black American male.
The New York Times [Op-Ed] June 25, 1994
Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz, Let Us Prey: Cults have scored with youth, now they're after you.
Modern Maturity June 1994.
Cover
Let us prey
opening the door
taking up arms
Jill Nelson, Blue Plague /Bad cops, invisible victims
The New York Times [Op-Ed] May 20, 1994
Robert Massa, A Personal Essay and Scenes from an AIDS Ward: a portfolio by Sue Coe
[The above link is to Stephen Kroninger's blog and includes other Coe illustrations, some as early as 1979.]
The Village Voice February 22, 1994
cover illustration: 'Wait a moment. I don't want to die this afternoon.'
Infectious Disease Clinic
Ethics Rounds
Louis (Notes from Doctors' Meeting)
Kaposi's Sarcoma
Blue Bath
1993
Nicholas D. Kristof, China in the Year 2000: Repressive? Expressive? Anarchic?
The New York Times Magazine October 3, 1993
The Authoritarian State
The Democratic State
No State at All
Morris Dees, Young, Gullible and Taught to Hate: Old-guard racists are recruiting skinheads
The New York Times[Op-Ed] August 25, 1993
Black Intellectuals, Jewish Tensions -- two essays, one illustration:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., A Weaving of Identities
Cornel West, How to End the Impasse
The New York Times[Op-Ed] April 14, 1993
editorial cartoon: Of the World's industrialized nations only the United States and South Africa
do not have national health care.
The Nation February 1, 1993
Jane Perlez, Life and Times: Gunmen, $150 a Day (gunmen provide the media with 'technical assistance' in Somalia)
The New York Times Magazine [Endpaper] January 24, 1993
Michael Eric Dyson, King's Light, Malcolm's Shadow
The New York Times [Op-Ed] January 18, 1993
illustration after a 1958 photograph by Charles Moore
1992
Jim Motavalli, They Eat Horses, Don't They? 'Equine slaughterhouses are on the rise in the U.S. -- there are now 14. The meat is packaged and air shipped to France, where it's consumed as a delicacy.'
Animals' Agenda [cover story] November/December 1992
Brian Keenan, 'Come Now Into the Cell With Me' The author relives his
four and a half years as a hostage of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The New York Times Magazine September 20, 1992
caption: The author, lifting blindfold, and John McCarthy,
stooping, are united with, from left, Frank Reed, Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland
A. Leon Higginbotham, The Case of the Missing Black Judges / The Reagan-Bush record: 2 of 115 for appeals courts
The New York Times [Op-Ed] July 29, 1992
Michael Dorris, Noble Savages? We'll Drink to That: Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and other cultural metaphors
The New York Times[Op-Ed] April 21, 1992
Mary Jo Neuberger, Choice and Women's Rights: With Enemies Like Bush, It's the Dems' Race To Lose
The Village Voice April 7, 1992
caption: Dr Back Street Bush develops a case of Fetal Attraction
Ellen Hopkins, Tales from the Baby Factory / For infertile couples on a child quest, reproductive technologies
can take a huge physical, emotional and finanacial toll -- and success rates are surprisingly low.
The New York Times Magazine March 15, 1992
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