Dogfaces (comics)

Dogfaces is the name used by comic book fans to designate the anthropomorphic characters and extras in comic books, comic strips and animation.[1] Dogfaces usually resemble cartoon human beings, but with some special characteristics:

• They have four fingers on each hand and as few as three toes on each foot.
• They have the round black noses typical of dogs (in one Mickey Mouse comic strip, the statue of a Middle East ruler had a nose that was a giant black pearl).
• They have ears that are either pointed or droopy, like a dog's.
• They often have a prominent overbite.

A cartoon dogface, as portrayed in the Merrie Melodies series (Gold Rush Daze in 1938), in which dogfaces were common generic characters in the 1930s.

The most famous Dogface is probably Goofy. Bill Farmer, an actor who voices Goofy in cartoons, suggested that Goofy is "the Missing Link between Dog and Man."

Cartoonist Don Rosa apologized, tongue-in-cheek, for turning Theodore Roosevelt into a Dogface for the sake of consistency in the biography of Scrooge McDuck.