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. 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.
- They have ears that are either pointed or droopy, like a dog's.
- They often have a prominent overbite.
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.
