For almost 50 years, Footrot Flats has been a part of Kiwi life. The cartoon strip about a dog called Dog is still much-loved by readers, although sadly its creator Murray Ball died in 2017 after a long decline due to Alzheimer’s disease.
Now one of his three children, son Mason, 57, has gathered up memories of this talented man along with some of his cartoons in a biography, Murray Ball: A Cartoonist’s Life.
“I started it on the day he died
