Dogfaces

Dogfaces

Dogfaces is the name used by comic-book fans to designate the usual anthropomorhic characters and extras in comic books drawn by Carl Barks and other creators of comic books and comic strips. Dogfaces usually resemble cartoon human beings, but with some special characteristics:
* They have four fingers in each hand and four toes in 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 alveolar prognathism.

The most famous Dogface is probably Goofy. (His son Max and his nephew Gilbert are of course also Dogfaces.) Children have argued for decades whether Goofy is a man or a dog. Bill Farmer, an actor who voices Goofy in cartoons, suggested that Goofy is "the Missing Link between Dog and Man." This applies to all Dogfaces as well.

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.

See also:
*Beagle Boys
*Chief O'Hara
*Colonel Doberman
*Droopy
*Neighbor Jones
*Duckburg
*Underdog
*Walt Disney

Source
*"The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" by Don Rosa


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