Toby Morris is a New Zealand cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator and writer, best known for non-fiction online comics that often highlight social issues.
His work has reached worldwide audiences. On A Plate is an online comic Morris created to explain privilege by contrasting the lives from infancy to adulthood of two imaginary people: one wealthy, the other poor. It was shared globally and has been translated into several other languages. Animated graphics created in collaboration with Siouxsie Wiles for The Spinoff‘s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic were similarly widely shared and translated. In 2022 Morris won the Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize.

Check out more of Toby’s work at The Side Eye.