Worth reading - all the cartoons on social issues by #TobyMorris #TheSideEye.

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https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-side-eye

Toby Morris' reflection on recent events and the climate crisis: asking if we still think our individual well-intentioned actions are enough or are we frogs in boiling water?

#TheSideEye #TheSpinOff #TobyMorris #climatecrisis

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-02-2023/the-side-eye-a-climate-change-reality-check

Relevant to current NZ retreaded political announcements, this comic from 2018.

"The politics of fear has seen successive NZ governments incarcerate people at increasing rates. In the latest Side Eye, Toby Morris explores the crisis of a mindless criminal justice system."

#NZPol #TheSideEye #TobyMorris

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-07-2018/the-side-eye-tough-on-crime-is-dead

Relevant to current NZ retreaded political announcements, this comic from 2018.

"The politics of fear has seen successive NZ governments incarcerate people at increasing rates. In the latest Side Eye, Toby Morris explores the crisis of a mindless criminal justice system."

#NZPol #TheSideEye #TobyMorris

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-07-2018/the-side-eye-tough-on-crime-is-dead

"Most young people will have seen porn well before they start actually having sex. In the hope of settling anxieties and managing expectations, The Side Eye has a gentle talk about the differences between sex in porn and sex in real life."

#webcomic #comic #consent #sex #porn #tobymorris #thesideeye

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-11-2022/the-side-eye-porn-sex-and-real-sex

"Most young people will have seen porn well before they start actually having sex. In the hope of settling anxieties and managing expectations, The Side Eye has a gentle talk about the differences between sex in porn and sex in real life."

#webcomic #comic #consent #sex #porn #tobymorris #thesideeye

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-11-2022/the-side-eye-porn-sex-and-real-sex

"Cleaning a rental to a spotless level in the hopes of getting your bond back is a familiar feeling for renters – but are landlords expecting unfair standards? The Side Eye‘s Toby Morris looks at what the law says."

#comic #tobymorris #thesideeye #nzlaw

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/29-09-2022/the-side-eye-reasonably-clean-and-tidy

"We wouldn’t just dig up a mountain… would we? A new Side Eye comic about Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanoes and reckoning with the past."

#nzhistory #colonisation #thesideeye #tobymorris

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-06-2022/the-side-eye-we-destroyed-mountains

"An important part of the puzzle has been the growing evidence that people are infectious for a few days before they start showing symptoms. Rather than describing people like this as asymptomatic – that is people who don’t have any symptoms – it is better to think of them as pre-symptomatic. "

#COVID19 #SiouxsieWiles #tobymorris

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-05-2020/siouxsie-wiles-toby-morris-what-we-dont-know-about-covid-19/

"Two years ago, Toby Morris met Tasia for the Side Eye comic ‘Empty Shelves’. As New Zealand emerges from the strict Covid-19 lockdown of alert level four he catches up with her again, and finds that while some things have changed, others have not."

#tobymorris #webcomic #nzculture #nzpolitics

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-05-2020/the-side-eye-essential/

"As we await a decision on moving out of alert level four, some big questions are in play. One of those is about contact tracing, explains Siouxsie Wiles. Illustrations and animations by Toby Morris. "

#SiouxsieWiles #tobymorris

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-04-2020/siouxsie-wiles-toby-morris-why-contact-tracing-is-so-crucial-to-moving-out-of-lockdown/

Moar bubbles illustration!

"Already, some people have apparently convinced themselves they aren’t doing any harm by nipping out of their bubbles. They don’t have the virus, right?
...
The reality is simple. Everyone who visits another bubble could set off a chain reaction that at best puts our essential workers out of action and at worst puts people’s lives at risk. So please, stay in your bubbles New Zealand."

#COVID19 #bubbles #tobymorris

https://thespinoff.co.nz/covid-19/01-04-2020/siouxsie-wiles-toby-morris-why-those-bubbles-are-so-important/

"Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris, with help from Dr Siouxsie Wiles, explores three important points about Covid-19"

#tobymorris #thesideeye #COVID19

https://thespinoff.co.nz/covid-19/25-03-2020/the-side-eye-viruses-vs-everyone/