- 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 ofcomic books andcomic 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 oneMickey Mouse comic strip, the statue of aMiddle 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 prominentalveolar 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 "theMissing Link between Dog and Man." This applies to all Dogfaces as well.Cartoonist
Don Rosa apologized, tongue-in-cheek, for turningTheodore Roosevelt into a Dogface for the sake of consistency in the biography ofScrooge 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 " byDon Rosa
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