‘In cartooning, you must get a human reaction to the idea’ Murray Ball created many different cartoon series throughout his life, but it was Wal, Dog, Horse and company that a generation of Kiwis grew up with and came to love.
The Footrot Flats creator died, aged 78, in Gisborne last week, and the tributes that poured in commended his clever, insightful cartoons that not only made us laugh, but think.
Murray, who is survived by his wife of 53 years, Pam, and their three children, had suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last seven years and retired from public life in 2010.
The son of All Black Nelson Ball and his wife Meg, Murray was born in Feilding and spent some of his school years in Australia and South Africa.…
