Published 6 March 202610 April 2026 · CoPower / Cartoons Trying really hard not to make a comic about critical minerals Sofia Sabbagh This piece is sponsored by CoPower, a non-profit cooperative that sells energy to households. What makes them different is their mission to change the energy system to make it work for people and planet rather than shareholders or corporate executives. You can get fair energy and help increase CoPower’s impact by switching your energy to CoPower here or by calling their local customer service team on 03 9068 6036. Sofia Sabbagh Sofia Sabbagh is an illustrator and comic artist of Irish and Palestinian descent, based on stolen Wurundjeri land. More by Sofia Sabbagh › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 1 9 April 202610 April 2026 · CoPower Against the will to engineer: Richard King’s Brave New Wild Ben Brooker The response demanded of us in the twenty-first century must operate at the level of metaphysics as well as the material, addressing our underlying assumptions about the instrumentalisation of nature and what constitutes a meaningful life in the face of technology’s relentless advance. To neglect that deeper terrain is to concede, in advance, the very ground on which our resistance to the machine must stand. 23 February 202623 February 2026 · Right to protest Colonial authoritarianism did not start with Chris Minns Eav Brennan On 10 February 2026, a crowd gathered a Surry Hills police station on Gadigal Country. It was a snap action to protest against the police brutality of the day before.