Dogfaces (comics)

Dogfaces or ‘’’Dognoses’’’ is the term used by fans to designate the anthropomorphic characters and extras in comic books, comic strips, and animated cartoons.

"[2] Cartoonist Don Rosa apologized, tongue-in-cheek, for turning Theodore Roosevelt into a dogface for the sake of consistency in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

In such cases, it may be seen as a different artistic representation of humans: in another instance, Mickey Mouse supporting character Professor Dustibones went from dogface in his first appearance, to human.

[3] Long before modern comics and animation, dog-headed people (called cynocephalics, from Greek κυνοκέφαλοι (kynokephaloi), from κύων- (dog-) and κεφαλή (head)) have been depicted in art and legend in many cultures, beginning no later than ancient Egypt.

Several ancient Egyptian gods, such as Anubis[4] and Duamutef, are dogheads.

A cartoon dogface, as portrayed in the Merrie Melodies series ( Gold Rush Daze in 1939), in which dogfaces were common generic characters in the 1930s.
Saints Ahrakas and Oghani as dogheads (dogfaces to a degree, as the hair is human); 18th-century Coptic icon