Picture supplied That Mason Ball clearly shares his cartoonist father Murray Ball’s humour ... one of Murray Ball’s most loved Footrot Flats characters, Mason felt a biography written by ...

straight out of Footrot Flats, the beloved and long-running New ... by Matthew Maclaurin and his father Graham in the rustic shearing shed. The lush green hills near Gisborne, on the NZ North ...

Footrot Flats mastermind Murray Ball ... He lived his later years in Gisborne. His father Nelson was an All Black and played rugby for Feilding Old Boys, earning 37 games for Manawatū from ...

Wal and Dog are seen in a scene from the Footrot Flats movie, Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale. Photo / Supplied The Footrot Flats animated film is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a re-release ...

Ball was the creator of the famous Footrot Flats cartoon strip, that was made into a movie in 1986. Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale was New Zealand’s first feature-length animated film.

The death of New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball has been called the end of an era by fans who grew up reading and watching his iconic comic Footrot Flats. Ball died on Sunday at age 78 after a ...

ICONIC cartoonist Murray Ball, the creator of the famous Footrot Flats series that spawned a feature film, has died aged 78. Ball was the creator of the famous Footrot Flats cartoon strip ...