Bibliography
As well as collections of his cartoons Ball has written and illustrated a number of books:
- Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest, a satirical look at New Zealand rugby
- Migod! It's Bruce the Barbarian
- The People Makers' (1970)
- The Sisterhood (1993), a comical, but rather irate, masculist book, which caused some uproar at the time of publication
- The Flowering of Adam Budd (described as pornography in one review)
- Quentin Hankey: Traitor
- Tarzan, Gene Kelly And Me (2001) - approximately, an autobiography.
- Fred the (Quite) Brave Mouse
Ball has also written a large-format illustrated novel whose verse parodied the Australian bush-ballad as popularised by Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. Titled The Ballad of Footrot Flats, released around 1996, and originally intended as a second film-script, this work, the first new Footrot material to appear since 1994, proved the last of the Footrot series.
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