By Melissa NightingaleFootrot Flats creator Murray Ball has died, aged 78. Scott and Ball worked together on the full-length animated Footrot Flats movie. "It got pitch black and none of the kids wanted to stop, they were playing with Murray Ball ... "It is with great sadness that the ACA received the news of the death of Murray Ball," he said. "My Grandad gave me every single Footrot Flats as a child and I absolutely loved them.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 12, 2017 01:40 UTC