each admired the other's work. One Footrot Flats strip shows Dog laughing at a Snoopy cartoon. Schulz wrote the introduction to the only Footrot Flats published in the United States (it appeared as Footrot Flats there, but as Footrot Flats 4 in Australasia.) See also New Zealand literature Footrot Flats, comic strip written by Murray Ball Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale, 1986, animated film References External links Murray Ball: The man behind Footrot Flats'' biography Footrot Flats by Murray Ball, a Facebook fan-site with a huge photographic catalogue of many Footrot Flats or Murray Ball items/merchandise Tim Shoebridge. 'Ball, Murray Hone', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1939 births 2017 deaths Comic strip cartoonists New Zealand cartoonists People from Gisborne, New Zealand Punch (magazine) cartoonists Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit People from Feilding Alumni of Parktown Boys' High School New Zealand socialists