Summer binge watch: Two Sketches with Toby Morris

Catch up on Two Sketches, featuring Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris chatting and drawing with a selection of New Zealand illustrators, artists, comic artists, cartoonists, sketchers and doodlers. Michel Mulipola: WWE, Marvel, Tekken and drawing The Rock Toby draws and chats with Sāmoan artist Michel Mulipola. Apart from being a pro wrestler, Michel is also a comic … Read more

Watch: Comedian Angella Dravid destroys our webseries

The Spinoff’s cartoonist Toby Morris chats and draws with New Zealand’s doodlers in the webseries Two Sketches. This episode, Toby hosts comedian Angella Dravid. In the seventh episode of The Spinoff’s webseries Two Sketches, Angella Dravid makes herself  at home in the dining room of Toby Morris’ house. Angella is an award winning comedian appearing … Read more

Terry Teo is the great New Zealand comic

Growing up, illustrator Toby Morris rarely saw the New Zealand he knew in comics – until he discovered Terry Teo. The school library. Hampton Hill Primary. Tawa. 1990. I’m curled up in a corner on the carpet so the teacher can’t see what I’m reading and I’m having a moment. It’s a comic that looks … Read more

Watch: Artist Bob Kerr and the secret origins of Terry Teo

Two Sketches is a webseries featuring Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris chatting and drawing with a selection of New Zealand illustrators, artists, comic artists, cartoonists, sketchers and doodlers. This episode, Toby sits down with children’s book author Bob Kerr, co-creator of Terry Teo. In the sixth episode of The Spinoff’s webseries Two Sketches, Toby Morris visits … Read more

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.  Two Sketches returns with another leisurely draw and a chat hosted by award-winning illustrator Toby Morris. In this episode, Toby chats with Dunedin-based illustrator Ben Stenbeck, … Read more

Watch: Metiria Turei opens up on a life in politics, art and activism in Two Sketches

At the last election, Metiria Turei stood down as Greens co-leader amid the controversy that followed a personal and polarising speech, the reverberations of which are felt to this day in the party. She has since stayed out of the public spotlight and immersed herself in art and performance. In a rare interview, she sits … Read more

Watch: Two Sketches draws and chats with trans cartoonist Sam Orchard

Two Sketches is a webseries featuring Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris chatting and drawing with a selection of New Zealand illustrators, artists, comic artists, cartoonists, sketchers and doodlers. In episode 3, Toby sits down with activist illustrator Sam Orchard. The Spinoff’s chill-out, slow-form web series Two Sketches returns with another draw and a chat hosted by … Read more

Watch: Two Sketches meets the great cartoonist Sharon Murdoche

Two Sketches is a webseries featuring Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris chatting and drawing with a selection of New Zealand illustrators, artists, comic artists, cartoonists, sketchers and doodlers. In episode 2, Toby visits with the political cartoonist of the Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, The Press and Waikato Times, and New Zealand’s first woman editorial political … Read more

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

We’re overjoyed to today launch our new webseries about drawing and stuff, Two Sketches. Here’s what it’s all about – plus, watch the first episode below. Popular illustrator and The Spinoff’s resident cartoonist-in-chief Toby Morris loves drawing and loves chatting to other pencil pushers, so why not combine the two? In this new webseries we … Read more