In what year did Craig Ball record the sound track for a comedy film based on a 1930's comic strip? 
1990
Dick Tracy (1990 film)
Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action comedy film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould.
 Warren Beatty produced, directed, and starred in the film, which features supporting roles from Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Dustin Hoffman, William Forsythe, Glenne Headly, Paul Sorvino, Dick Van Dyke, Charlie Korsmo, and Madonna.
 "Dick Tracy" depicts the detective's love relationships with Breathless Mahoney and Tess Truehart, as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice.
 Tracy also begins his upbringing of "The Kid".
Craig Ball (musician)
Craig Ball is an American, swing clarinet player and leader of the White Heat Swing Orchestra.
 He recorded the sound track for the Warner Brother’s film "Dick Tracy".
The Peanuts Movie
The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts".
 The film is directed by Steve Martino and written by Craig and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively), and Cornelius Uliano, and stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock.
 It is the fifth full-length "Peanuts" film, and the first feature film in 35 years.
 It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas", and was released on November 6, 2015. Striker (comic)
Striker is a fictional British comic strip and former magazine, which is created by Pete Nash and features in the British tabloid newspaper "The Sun".
 The strip first appeared in The Sun on Monday November 11, 1985 and ran in the newspaper daily until August 2003, when the author decided to launch the strip as a weekly independent comic book.
 However, the strip returned to the The Sun during October 2005, after the comic book had published 87 issues and suffered financial problems.
 Over the four years the newspaper strip was published daily until the end of September 2009, when it transpired that Nash had served a years notice to bring the strip to a conclusion.
 However, Striker returned on January 26, 2010, as a full-page comic strip in the weekly UK lads magazine Nuts, where it was published as a weekly strip until October 2010.
 It subsequently went unpublished until January 7, 2013, when it started to be published in The Sun newspaper.
 Over the next three years it was published seven days a week, before it was announced that Striker would no longer be published in the paper after February 13, 2016.
 Later that year, it was announced that the strip would be brought back to the paper by popular demand, with matches shown live on the internet for the first time. Sound-on-film
Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physically recorded onto photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture.
 Sound-on-film processes can either record an analog sound track or digital sound track, and may record the signal either optically or magnetically.
 Earlier technologies were sound-on-disc, meaning the film's soundtrack would be on a separate phonograph record. Ilkka Heilä
Ilkka Heilä, 1956 Ekenäs, is a Finnish cartoonist who lives in Kaarina.
 He draws "B. Virtanen" -comic strip.
 Comics by Heilä appeared as early as in the beginning of 1970s in the comic magazine "Sarjis".
 However, working in a post office replaced professional self-fulfillment of artistic tendencies the nearly 20 years period, until then he created Bulls-syndicate of his comic strip B. Virtanen and took part in comic competition arranged by newspaper "Uusi Suomi" in 1989.
 Thanks to this comic strip, Heilä could at last in the 1990s move to a full-time comic artist.
 He got the Puupäähattu, a valued Finnish comic prize of Suomen Sarjakuvaseura (Finnish Comic Club) in year 2006. Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (stylised on posters and titles as Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale) is a 1986 New Zealand-Australian animated comedy film based on cartoonist Murray Ball's comic strip "Footrot Flats" about a New Zealand farmer and his border collie sheepdog.
 The film was written by Ball and Tom Scott, directed by Ball, and produced by John Barnett and Pat Cox, with music by Dave Dobbyn.
 The voice cast includes leading New Zealand actors John Clarke, Peter Rowley, Rawiri Paratene, Fiona Samuel and Billy T. James.
 It was New Zealand's first feature-length animated film.
 The film was released on 9 April 1986 by Kerridge-Odeon.
 "Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale" grossed $2,500,000 at the New Zealand box office (making it one of the most successful local films of the 1980s). Tillie the Toiler (1941 film)
Tillie the Toiler is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Sidney Salkow, which stars Kay Harris, William Tracy, and George Watts.
 The screenplay was written by Karen DeWolf and Francis Martin, from DeWolf's story, which in turn was based on the comic strip of the same name by Russ Westover.
 It was the second film based on the comic strip, and the first sound picture, the other being the 1927 silent film, also titled "Tillie the Toiler". Tony Carrillo
Tony Carrillo is the creator of F Minus, an offbeat comic strip.
 Carrillo started the comic strip at Arizona State University, when he was in his sophomore year.
 After winning an online contest to determine the best college comic strip, Tony was awarded a deal with United Media.
 His comic appears daily at Comics.com, as well as many newspapers across the country.
 His website is located here:  Harold Teen
Harold Teen was a popular, long-running American comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced "eed").
 Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested and certainly approved the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel "Seventeen".
 The strip ran from 1919 to 1959.
 Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, "Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence.
 I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one."