Artist put on a spot
PA Palmerston North
The "Footrot Flats" cartoonist, Murray Ball, has been put on the spot by his overseas agent.
Mr Ball has strong antiapartheid views, but one of his cartoon strips has appeared regularly in a farming weekly magazine in South Africa. Mr Ball said from Gisborne yesterday that it was all a mistake.
“What happened is that my overseas syndication is handled by an agent in Australia,” be said. “He had an approach from this weekly magazine and accepted it. The first I knew of it was when I got the first cheque from them.” Mr Ball said he did not accept the cheque and nor had he taken for personal use any other payments from the magazine. The payments “go elsewhere,” he said. “My views on South Africa have not changed. We have had three or four approaches since then and turned them down.”
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Press, 14 June 1984, Page 1
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