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Tsunami, Ned Wenlock’s new graphic novel (Image design: Archi Banal)

Deadbeat dads, weird kids and school bullies: An interview with Ned Wenlock

The Kāpiti author's new graphic novel is a strange, insightful and unexpected story about a weird kid trying to fit in and figure out who he is.
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By Toby Morris | 15th August, 2023
Comic artist
Kids draw their pandemic memories

Kids draw their pandemic memories

How are children experiencing the pandemic, and what will they remember from the past two years?
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By Julie Spray | 30th May, 2022
Guest writer
Comic of the Month: The Nagarjuna by Sloane Hong

Comic of the Month: The Nagarjuna by Sloane Hong

A sneak peek at the artist's new science-fiction thriller, featuring a brilliant astronomer who may just have found aliens.
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By Sloane Hong | 18th March, 2022
Guest artist
A clinch between Hades and Persephone; the new book (Images: Supplied)

Lore Olympus: Behind the scenes of a phenomenally successful online comic

Here's a hell of a metric: this comic's been read 300 million times.
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By Casey Lucas | 25th November, 2021
Guest writer
Comic of the Month: Rufus Marigold, by Ross Murray

Comic of the Month: Rufus Marigold, by Ross Murray

This month on The Spinoff's Comic of the Month we meet Rufus, a chimp with anxiety issues. 
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By Ross Murray | 18th October, 2021
Guest writer
Comic of the Month: Levelling Out, By Zoë Colling

Comic of the Month: Levelling Out, By Zoë Colling

This month on Comic of the Month we take a look at a story of everyday lockdown emotions with Zoë Colling.
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By Zoë Colling | 22nd September, 2021
Guest writer
Comic of the Month: Deadface Comics, by Anthony Stocking

Comic of the Month: Deadface Comics, by Anthony Stocking

For our latest installment of The Spinoff's Comic of the Month we take a trip into the woods.
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By Anthony Stocking | 24th August, 2021
Guest writer
The Friday Poem: We are all collective nouns of ourselves, by Tara Black

The Friday Poem: We are all collective nouns of ourselves, by Tara Black

A new poem comic by artist Tara Black.
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By Tara Black | 28th May, 2021
Guest writer
Comic of the Month: School Demons by Indira Neville

Comic of the Month: School Demons by Indira Neville

Introducing a new monthly slot for great one-off comics by a rotating cast of New Zealand comic creators.
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By Indira Neville | 15th April, 2021
Guest writer
Cha chow down: A food comic about Courtenay Place’s cosiest cave

Cha chow down: A food comic about Courtenay Place’s cosiest cave

Liliana Mañetto Quick illustrates her love for Cha, a haven of calm on Courtenay Place.
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By Liliana Mañetto Quick | 28th November, 2020
Guest writer
Author/illustrator Jonathan King and his first graphic novel (Photo: Supplied)

Toby Morris and his kids review a cool new comic

The filmmaker behind Black Sheep and Under the Mountain turns his hand to graphic novels.
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By Toby Morris | 26th August, 2020
Comic artist
An image from comic series The Wicked + The Divine

Why I think this comic series about death is the straight-up best story of the 2010s

Uther Dean on the comic series he's spent the last five years with – and which he swears is the best story of the decade.
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By Uther Dean | 31st December, 2019
Guest writer
Terry Teo is the great New Zealand comic

Terry Teo is the great New Zealand comic

Growing up, Toby Morris rarely saw the New Zealand he knew in comics – until he discovered Terry Teo
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By Toby Morris | 2nd November, 2019
Comic artist
Martin Scorsese, meet your match

In defence of superhero movies

Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Ken Loach all have one thing in common: they don’t like superhero movies. Josie Adams defends the existence of the world’s most money-hungry film genre.
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By Josie Adams | 27th October, 2019
Contributing writer
Self-portraits.

Let Me Be Frank: an essay about creativity and comics by Sarah Laing

Wellington writer, illustrator and Katherine Mansfield obsessive Sarah Laing has a new book out tomorrow. Here, she tells its origin story. 
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By Sarah Laing | 9th October, 2019
Guest writer
Watch: comic artist Ben Stenbeck on Hellboy, Buffy and imposter syndrome

Watch: comic artist Ben Stenbeck on Hellboy, Buffy and imposter syndrome

The Spinoff’s cartoonist Toby Morris chats and draws with New Zealand’s doodlers in the webseries Two Sketches. In the fifth episode, Toby sits down with comic artist Ben Stenbeck. 
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By Two Sketches | 17th September, 2019
Guest writer
RIP Mad magazine

As Mad magazine comes to an end, its spirit of mockery lives on

Longtime fan Nik Dirga pays tribute to the magazine that weaponised satire before the internet.
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By Nik Dirga | 10th July, 2019
Guest writer
10 New Zealand cartoonists you can read instead of Garrick Tremain

10 New Zealand cartoonists you can read instead of Garrick Tremain

With the Herald ditching its daily strip, there's a glimmer of hope that our moribund newspaper cartooning scene might be set for some new blood. Toby Morris has 10 suggestions for cartoonists to consider.
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By Toby Morris | 11th April, 2019
Comic artist
Two Sketches episode 1: Toby Morris chats and draws with Michel Mulipola

Inside our new webseries Two Sketches, from The Side Eye’s Toby Morris

We're overjoyed to launch our new webseries about drawing and stuff, Two Sketches. Here's what it's all about – plus watch the first episode.
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By Two Sketches | 27th March, 2019
Guest writer
To The I-Land: Remembering Barry Linton, 1947-2018

To The I-Land: Remembering Barry Linton, 1947-2018

Comics artist and writer Dylan Horrocks pays tribute to the revered New Zealand cartoonist Barry Linton, who died last week.
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By Dylan Horrocks | 12th October, 2018
Guest writer

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