The <i>Footrot Flats</i> animated film is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a re-release through New Zealand cinemas next month.

Cartoonist Murray Ball, the creator of Footrot Flats, has died aged 78. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's and had been nursed at his Gisborne, New Zealand, home for some time.

Patrons at Feilding's Rural Day are honouring the Footrot Flats mastermind by holding a mass singing of Dave Dobbyn's 1986 Kiwi classic Slice of Heaven. Ball's beloved comic strip was used in ...

Hardcover edition of Footrot Flats comic strip to sell for more than $1000. It was a fixture in the daily papers in the 1980s and 1990s, spawning a movie, a musical and a theme park.

From cartoon to the stage, Footrot Flats’ characters are larger than life, as the actors in Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production have found during rehearsals for the upcoming show. WalPlayed ...

POPULAR New Zealand '80s comic strip Footrot Flats springs from the page in a barnstorm of song and dance this March. ... Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more! EXPLORE REGIONS. PERTH.

Tributes are flowing for New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball who created characters in his Footrot Flats cartoon strips that New Zealanders grew up loving.

The Twin Town Players musical production of Footrot Flats was a knockout with around 300 people attending over the three performance nights at the Rylstone Memorial Hall. Director Pam Innes did a ...

Footrot Flats cartoonist Murray Ball with some of his characters. Credit: Sunday StarTimes/John Cowpland "Everyone he met he was open to, friendly, and generous to a fault." In an interview with ...

At the height of its popularity it spawned a feature-length movie, a theme park and a musical and now this beloved comic strip could pocket fans a nice cash bonus.