SocietyJune 14, 2022

The Side Eye: We destroyed mountains

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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.

The Side Eye is a monthly non-fiction comic by Toby Morris, supported by NZ On Air. Read the rest of the series here.

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