Corinne Rey (born 21 August 1982) is a French

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

who publishes under the

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Coco.

Biography

Corinne Rey was born 21 August 1982 in

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in eastern France. Under the pen name "Coco" she has published in periodicals such as ''

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...

'', ''

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'', and ''

L'Écho des savanes ''L’Écho des Savanes'' is a Franco-Belgian comics magazine founded in May 1972 by Claire Bretécher, Marcel Gotlib and Nikita Mandryka. It featured the work of French and international authors and graphic artists in mature-oriented comics over ...

''. Public figures such as politicians

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and

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. He previously was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from ...

are frequent targets of her political cartoons. She has won a number of awards for her cartooning. Rey has worked for ''Charlie Hebdo'' since 2009, where she did editing and contributed

editorial cartoon A political cartoon, a form of editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist. They typically combine a ...

s. 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

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and

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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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