The Dog Show: Gallery of Cartoon Dogs
Gallery of Cartoon Dogs
The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons features more than one hundred cartoon dogs from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum collections and on loan for the exhibition from private collections. Here’s a list of the dogs on display
(*note this is a work in progress—additional dogs are being added)
Classic Canine Characters
Ace – Detective Comics No. 254, Sheldon Moldoff & Ira Schnapp
Astro – The Jetsons , Gold Key
Andy – Mark Trail , Ed Dodd
Augie Doggie – Augie Doggie no. 1, Harvey Eisenberg, Gold Key
Barfy & Sam – The Family Circus, Bil Keane
Beagle Boys – Walt Disney The Beagle Boys, Pete Alvarado (pencils) and Larry Mayer (inks) , Gold Key
Beauregard Bugleboy – Pogo, Walt Kelly
Betty Boop – Betty Boop’s First Model Chart, Grim Natwick
Bimbo –Talkartoons , Robert Little
Biscuit – Stone Soup, Jan Eliot
Bitsy – Marvin, Tom Armstrong
Bullet – Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, John Rose
Charlie & Itchy – All Dogs Go to Heaven (on loan from private collection)
Cosmo the Space Dog – Guardians of the Galaxy Annual no.1
Daisy – Blondie, Murat “Chic” Young
Dawg – Hi and Lois, Mort Walker and Dik Browne
Deputy Dawg – Deputy Dawg No. 1238, Fred Fredericks, Dell
Devil – The Phantom, Lee Falk and Sy Barry
Dogbert – Dilbert and Dogbert, Scott Adams
Dog Man – Dog Man, Dav Pilkey
Dollar – Richie Rich No. 3, Harvey Classics
Droopy – Drag Along Droopy
Earl – Mutts, Patrick McDonnell
Fang – The Duplex
Farley & Edgar – For Better or For Worse, Lynn Johnston
Fifi – Bringing Up Father, George McManus
Flip – Rusty Riley, Frank Godwin
General Lee – Wee Pals, Morrie Turner
Goofy – Walt Disney’s Goofy no.468, Dick Moores
Grimmy – Mother Goose & Grimm, Mike Peters
Hector the Bulldog – Looney Tunes No. 40, Mike DeCarlo, DC
Hot Dog – Jughead’s Pal Hot Dog no.1, Nate Butler, Archie Comics
Howard Huge – Howard Huge , Bunny Hoest
Huckleberry Hound – Huckleberry Hound No. 990, Harvey Eisenberg, Dell Publishing Co.
Judge Rummy – Judge Rummy, Tad Dorgen
Krypto – Adventure Comics no.310 , Curt Swan & George Klein DC
Lady and the Tramp – Lady and the Tramp (on loan from private collection)
Lassie – Lassie No. 10, Morris Gollub, Dell Comic
Lockjaw – Ms. Marvel no.8, Jamie McKelvie & Matthew Wilson Marvel
Marmaduke – Marmaduke, Brad Anderson
Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog – Tom Terrific no. 3, Gene Deitch (creator) Pines Comics
Mr. Peabody – Mr. Peabody and Sherman no.1, Jorge Molongo IDW
Mugg – Dick Tracy, Chester Gould
Muttsy – Sad Sack’s Muttsy the Talking Dog no.105, George Baker, Harvey Comics
Napoleon – Napoleon and Uncle Elby no. 1, Stephen Douglas
Odie – Garfield, Jim Davis
Officer Pupp – Krazy Kat
Otto – Beetle Bailey, Mort Walker
Patches – Gamin and Patches, Mort Walker
Pluto – Bone Trouble, Norm Ferguson (on loan from private collection)
Pongo – One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Pup Dog – Pogo, Walt Kelly
Ren – The Ren and Stimpy Show no.1, Marvel Comics
Rex the Wonder Dog – Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog, Gil Kane
Rivets – Rivets, George Sixta
Rover – Red and Rover, Brian Basset
Ruff – Dennis the Menace, Hank Ketcham
Ruff & Reddy – Ruff and Reddy no. 9, Mac Rey Dell
Rufferto – Sergio Aragonés Groo and Rufferto, Sergio Aragonés Dark Horse
Sandy – Little Orphan Annie, Leonard Starr
Santa’s Little Helper – Simpsons Comics #45,Bongo
Scamp – Scamp by Bob Grant (pencils) and Manuel Gonzales (inks)
Schnappsy – Dingle Hoofer und His Dog, Herald H. Kerr
Scooby Doo – Hanna Barbera’s Scooby Doo no. 15, Joe Staton, DC
Sinbad – Sinbad, Edwina Dumm
Snert – Hagar the Horrible, Dik Browne
Snoopy – Peanuts, Charles Schulz
Spare Ribs & Attaboy – Toots and Casper, Jimmy Murphy
Spike and Tyke – MGM’s Spike and Tyke no. 8, Dell
Stripe – Tiger by Bud Blake
Tige – Buster Brown, Richard Outcault
Trots – Trots and Bonnie, Shary Flenniken
Uncle Sam – Golden Eyes and Her Hero “Bill” Over There, Nell Brinkley
Underdog – Underdog no. 2, Frank Johnson, Charlton Comics
Zero – Little Annie Rooney, Darell McClure (writer) and Nicolas Afonsky (artist)
Zipper – Zipper, Bill Holman
Miscellaneous Mutts
Our exhibit includes many additional dog characters that are not named. These unnamed mutts are featured in works from:
George Booth – Everything has been getting on his nerves, Doctor…
Gary Brooks – Ignoring him isn’t working…maybe we should just step on him!
Ernie Bushmiller – Nancy
E. Simms Campbell – Cuties
Eldon Dedini – Dog at Restaurant Window
Kim Deitch – Doggie Diners
Rick Detorie – Artwork for 2 Recycled Paper Greetings, greeting cards
John Doyle – Jack in Office
Bill Gallo – In Honor of the Dog Show
Eric Gurney – Dogs in the Ring at an Outside Dog Show
George Gately – Heathcliff
Jeff MacNelly – A truck-eatin’ dawg?… Well, I got worse news Griffin, I got this thing floored!
James Merritt Ives – The Old Bulldog on the Right Track
Mike Luckovich – Sending Bush a Message
Frederick Burr Opper – Wouldn’t it Make you Mad?
Hilary Price – Rhymes with Orange
Arnold Roth – Obedience demonstration
Bill Sanders – Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I hope there’ll be tomorrow!!
Bill Schorr – Man of the Decade
Jeff Stahler – Moderately Confused
H.T Webster – Life’s darkest moment – The hypochondriac buys a dog
Dick Wright – The U.N. Watchdog
Jack Zeigler – O.K., O.K., here’s ‘Lassie, Come Home’ again! Now are you happy?
Eugene Zimmerman – Ending of the Dog Days
More Dogs
Our collections include many additional dog characters that are not represented in The Dog Show including:
Norbert – Norbert, George Fett
- Prince Valliant
- [Dog] – James Thurber
- Top Image Credit: Art by Eric Reaves. Snoopy © PNTS; Biscuit © Jan Eliot; Grimmy © Grimmy, Inc.; Marmaduke © UFS; Farley © Lynn Johnston Productions, Inc.; Otto © Comicana, Inc.; Earl © Patrick McDonnell; Odie © Paws Inc.; Snert © King Features Syndicate, Inc.; Dawg © Comicana, Inc.; Sandy © Tribune Media Services, Inc.; and Ruff © North America Syndicate, Inc. Used by permission.