the Sunday Herald. In 1953 following the merger of the Sunday Herald and Sunday Sun and Guardian, the strip continued in the new Sun-Herald. Nicholls never changed his style of drawing. For fifty years he went on drawing the strip in exactly the same 1920s style. The strip ran until Nicholls' death in 1977, with the last strip running in July 1977. Film adaptations In 1927 a silent black and white film, The Kid Stakes, written and directed by Tal Ordell, was released featuring Fatty Finn and his goat, Hector. The film also contained a segment showing Nicolls at his drawing board, creating his famous characters. It was the first feature film to be based on an Australian comic strip. In 1980 the strip was adapted into a feature film, Fatty Finn, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. The film grossed $1,064,000 at the box office in Australia and was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards in 1981 winning in the categories of 'Best Achievement in Costume Design' and 'Best Original Music Score'. In the same year Sydney journalist and screenwriter Bob Ellis produced a book of the movie, The Adventures of Fatty Finn with illustrations taken from Nicholls' original drawings. References External links Australian comic strips Australian comics titles 1923 comics debuts 1977 comics endings Gag-a-day comics Adventure comics Male characters in comics Child characters in comics Fictional Australian people Australian comics characters Scouting in popular culture School-themed comics Australian comics adapted into films