Since 1988 he has been the contract artist for American CBS News covering major political debates in The House of Commons, and terrorist trials in Europe. He was in Lyon for the Nazi war criminal, Klaus Barbie’s trial in Lyon in 1991, and his probing drawings were published in The Observer. In 2004, Cole was the sole court artist in Baghdad, covering the courts martial of American soldiers at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq. Cole divides his time between his studios in London and in the foothills of the French Alps.