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Murray Hone Ball, ONZM (born 1939 in Feilding in the Manawatu), is a New Zealand-born cartoonist, has become known for his ''Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero'' (the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine), ''Bruce the Barbarian'', ''All the King's Comrades'' (also in Punch) and the long-running ''Footrot Flats'' comic series. In 2002 Ball became an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist. == Life and work == Ball grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa, where he attended Parktown Boys' High School and finished his education. As a young man he worked for the ''Dominion'' newspaper in Wellington and the ''Manawatu Times'' before becoming a freelance cartoonist and moving to Scotland, where he found work with publishers DC Thomson, of Dundee. He developed his character ''Stanley'' and had it published in the influential English humour-magazine ''Punch''. ''Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero'' featured a caveman who wore glasses and struggled with the Neolithic environment. It became the longest-running strip in ''Punchs history, and other English and non-English speaking countries syndicated it. Ball continued to contribute to ''Punch'' after returning with his family to New Zealand. Ball's early cartoons often had political overtones (his mid-70s UK strips included ''All the King's Comrades'', and he described himself in the introduction to ''The Sisterhood'' (1993) as a socialist. ''Stanley'' often expresses left-wing attitudes). Ball lives with his wife Pam on a rural property in Gisborne, New Zealand. His father was All Black Nelson Ball. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murray Ball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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