Barry Humphries has passed away at age 89 after being hospitalised earlier this week due to complications from hip surgery. The Australian comedy legend was best known for his alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. #9News

Rocket Lab’s STEM programme reaches 20,000 kids, expands to US techblog.nz/3129-Rocket-La… Peter Griffin via ITP New Zealand cc Rocket Lab

All it took was 6,500 litres of fake blood, a fork lift and a dusty warehouse near Sylvia Park. thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/29…

I don’t believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do

David Low got into so much trouble for criticising the cost of the #Coronation in 1953 that a few days later he drew a cartoon of himself locked up in the Tower of London.

Who else is looking forward to #Techweek23! techblog.nz/3140-Tech-Week… cc Peter Griffin ITP New Zealand NZTech.org.nz #innovation

Out in the wild today, selling toon merch at my first market in a VERY long time (damn you COVID!) This is the Art Craft & Plant Market at the Huia Hall, and gosh there’s some cool stuff here. Come say hi if you’re out west in Auckland today and catch some specials. #cartoonlife

Apple finally debuts its mixed reality headset techblog.nz/3165-Dont-ment… Peter Griffin via ITP New Zealand Techblog #AppleVisionPro #cartoon #technology

There's a bunch of #AI news on ITP New Zealand Techblog this week, including this excellent wrap-up from Vic MacLennan Victoria (Vic) MacLennan techblog.nz/3174-AI-wrap-F… Check out the pieces from Peter Griffin and Vivian Chandra too!

A 1979 advert for a bookshop on Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Source: The Press paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

This month marks 16 years of Jim's cartoons appearing in the Methodist Church of NZ publication, Touchstone ... and coincidentally, it's also the first month that Touchstone is being published in an online-only edition. Read more here: hail.to/metho.../publi…

Awkward… 😬 (Read more here: techblog.nz/3192-Griffin-o… cc Peter Griffin ITP New Zealand)

Follow for the future of seafood, stay for our pier-less sense of humor. As many of you know, we love our fish puns here at Wildtype. We partnered with Cartoons by Jim to whip up a few more!

I hope she finds the peace she was searching for all the way through. Words will now fail me. Thank you dearest hearted brilliant brave women. “IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY” #sineadoconner

I’m just going to leave this here.