Coco (cartoonist)
{{short description|French cartoonist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox comics creator
|name=Coco
|image = Coco (cartoonist, 2015, cropped).jpg
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|caption = Coco at the Republican marches of 2015
|birth_name = Corinne Rey
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1982|08|21}}
|birth_place = Annemasse, France
|death_date =
|death_place =
|nationality = French
|cartoonist = yes
|alias = Coco
|signature = Signature coco.png
}}
Corinne Rey (born 21 August 1982) is a French cartoonist who publishes under the pen name Coco.
Biography
Corinne Rey was born 21 August 1982 in Annemasse in eastern France.{{sfn|Le Messager staff|2015}} Under the pen name "Coco" she has published in periodicals such as Charlie Hebdo, Les Inrockuptibles,{{sfnm|1a1=Le Messager staff|1y=2015|2a1=Clarín staff|2y=2015}} and L'Écho des savanes. Public figures such as politicians Dominique Strauss-Kahn and François Hollande are frequent targets of her political cartoons.{{sfn|Clarín staff|2015}} She has won a number of awards for her cartooning.{{sfnm|1a1=Le Messager staff|1y=2015|2a1=Perez|2y=2015}}
Rey has worked for Charlie Hebdo since 2009,{{sfn|Jourdan|2014}} where she did editing and contributed editorial cartoons.{{sfn|Clarín staff|2015}} She was present at the 2015 massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in which twelve were killed. On 7 January 2015, two masked gunmen approached her at the building that houses the Charlie Hebdo offices. They threatened to kill her, and her young daughter, if she did not enter the passcode to enter the building. They took her to the Charlie Hebdo on the second floor, where she witnessed them kill cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Cabu as she hid under a desk. The gunmen proceeded to another room and fired on the fifteen people in a meeting in progress.
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Works cited
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- {{cite web
|author = Clarín staff
|title = Quién es Coco, la diseñadora amenazada por los terroristas para entrar a la revista
|date = 8 January 2015
|work = Clarín
|language = Spanish
|url = http://www.clarin.com/mundo/atentado-Pais-terrorismo-Francia_0_1280872223.html
|access-date = 12 January 2015
}}
- {{cite web
|last = Jourdan
|first = Camille
|title = Pour survivre, Charlie Hebdo fait la quête
|language = French
|date = 7 November 2014
|work = Les Inrockuptibles
|url = http://www.lesinrocks.com/2014/11/07/actualite/charlie-hebdo-fait-appel-ses-lecteurs-11534194/
|access-date = 12 January 2015
}}
- {{cite web
|author = Le Messager staff
|title = Dessinatrice à Charlie Hebdo, l'Annemassienne "Coco" témoigne
|language = French
|date = 7 January 2015
|work = {{Interlanguage link multi|Le Messager (France)|fr|3=Le Messager (France)|lt=Le Messager}}
|publisher = {{Interlanguage link multi|Groupe La Voix|fr}}
|url = http://www.lemessager.fr/Actualite/Fil_Infos_regionales/2015/01/07/article_dessinatrice_agrave_charlie_hebdo_l_anne.shtml#.VLNQg-eArnA
|access-date = 12 January 2015
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150112215645/http://www.lemessager.fr/Actualite/Fil_Infos_regionales/2015/01/07/article_dessinatrice_agrave_charlie_hebdo_l_anne.shtml#.VLNQg-eArnA
|archive-date = 12 January 2015
|url-status = dead
}}
- {{cite web
|last = Perez
|first = Delphine
|title = Zoom : qui sont les filles de Charlie Hebdo?
|date = 9 January 2015
|url = http://www.leparisien.fr/laparisienne/societe/zoom-qui-sont-les-filles-de-charlie-hebdo-09-01-2015-4432563.php#xtref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.jp%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcoco%2Binrockuptibles%24tbm%3Dnws%24oq%3Dcoco%2Binrockuptibles%24gs_l%3Dheirloom-serp.3...12895.19695.0.20117.21.2.0.19.0.0.150.157.1j1.2.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.34.heirloom-serp..21.0.0.7Q85o2ZWzh4
|work = Le Parisien
|access-date = 15 January 2015
}}
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Category:French editorial cartoonists
Category:French women editorial cartoonists
Category:French female comics artists
Category:French female comics writers
Category:Survivors of the Charlie Hebdo shooting
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