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The Side Eye: In the studio with The Beths

The Side Eye: In the studio with The Beths

Summer reissue: Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris spends a session in the recording studio with The Beths.
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By Toby Morris | 7th January, 2021
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The Side Eye: The tunnel, the lights

The Side Eye: The tunnel, the lights

Summer reissue: Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris travels to Waitomo to see first hand the impact of Covid-19 on one of New Zealand's oldest tourist destinations.
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By Toby Morris | 5th January, 2021
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The Side Eye: The Trap Life

The Side Eye: The Trap Life

Summer reissue: Squaaawk! Toby Morris meets the community trapping groups changing Wellington's sky.
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By Toby Morris | 3rd January, 2021
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The Side Eye: Bugged Out

The Side Eye: Bugged Out

Summer reissue: Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999 – minus the fear our eftpos cards will all stop working at midnight.
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By Toby Morris | 31st December, 2020
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The Side Eye: Essential

The Side Eye: Essential

Summer reissue: Toby Morris reconnects with Tasia, essential worker, following level four lockdown.
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By Toby Morris | 27th December, 2020
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Illustration: Toby Morris
Opinion

The Side Eye: How to draw Winston Peters

A brief illustrated history of 45 years in the political life of Winston Peters NZ politician.
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By Toby Morris | 16th October, 2020
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James Shaw and Marama Davidson (Illustration: Toby Morris)
Opinion

The Side Eye: How to draw Marama Davidson and James Shaw

Each week in the lead-up to the election, The Side Eye cartoonist Toby Morris is teaching us how to draw a different politician. This week, it’s the Green Party co-leaders.
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By Toby Morris | 9th October, 2020
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How to draw David Seymour (Illustration: Toby Morris)
Opinion

The Side Eye: How to draw David Seymour

Each week in the lead-up to the election, Toby Morris is going to teach us how to draw a different NZ politician. This week, it’s the leader of the Act Party.
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By Toby Morris | 25th September, 2020
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Illustration: Toby Morris

The Side Eye: How to draw Judith Collins

Each week in the lead-up to the election, The Side Eye cartoonist Toby Morris is going to teach us how to draw a different New Zealand politician. This week, it's the leader of the opposition.
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By Toby Morris | 18th September, 2020
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Illustration: Toby Morris

The Side Eye: How to draw Jacinda Ardern

Each week in the lead-up to the election, cartoonist Toby Morris is going to teach us how to draw a different New Zealand politician. First up, it's the prime minister.
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By Toby Morris | 11th September, 2020
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The Side Eye: Weed versus Booze

The Side Eye: Weed versus Booze

On October 17 NZ will decide whether cannabis should be legalised and regulated. Toby Morris compares and contrasts weed with another popular drug: alcohol.
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By Toby Morris | 24th August, 2020
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The Side Eye: In the studio with The Beths

The Side Eye: In the studio with The Beths

Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris spent a session in the recording studio with The Beths and got an intimate view of the beloved band at work.
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By Toby Morris | 10th July, 2020
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The Side Eye: The tunnel, the lights

The Side Eye: The tunnel, the lights

Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris travels to Waitomo to see first hand the impact of Covid-19 on one of New Zealand's oldest tourist destinations.
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By Toby Morris | 8th June, 2020
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The Side Eye: Essential

The Side Eye: Essential

Toby Morris reconnects with Tasia, essential worker.
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By Toby Morris | 1st May, 2020
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The Side Eye: Viruses vs Everyone

The Side Eye: Viruses vs Everyone

Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris, with help from Dr Siouxsie Wiles, looks at the coronavirus up close. And from a long way away.
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By Toby Morris | 25th March, 2020
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Toby Morris

The Side Eye: The high price of bad teeth

We've all got teeth, so why can only some of us afford to look after them?
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By Toby Morris | 6th March, 2020
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The Side Eye: Bugged Out

The Side Eye: Bugged Out

This time 20 years ago, New Zealand was preparing for apocalypse. The Side Eye looks back at the Y2K bug phenomenon 20 years later and asks if it was all a scam.
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By Toby Morris | 19th December, 2019
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The Side Eye: The Trap Life

The Side Eye: The Trap Life

Skwaaak! Toby Morris meets the community trapping groups changing Wellington's sky.
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By Toby Morris | 27th November, 2019
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The Side Eye: Who’s the man?

The Side Eye: Who’s the man?

Toby Morris looks into shopping bags, fatherhood and what being a man means in 2019.
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By Toby Morris | 1st September, 2019
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The Side Eye: The Bottles – a story about nostalgia and dog poo

The Side Eye: The Bottles – a story about nostalgia and dog poo

Toby Morris gazes back to a time where almost every NZ yard had a plastic bottle full of water in the middle of it.
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By Toby Morris | 31st July, 2019
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