Dogvilles became so popular that several short Dogville films were made, around 1930. These 'talking pictures' featured Canine characters doing parodies of Classic novels, with names like Trader Hound, and All Quiet on the Canine Front. The characters wear clothes and talk, so could this have given ideas to TV and movies like Mr. Ed and The Shaggy Dog, whose stars were not Human, but played in Human roles?

I saw the Pokerdogs picture as a younger pup, and I was enchanted by it, looking at the expressions on each Dog's face, thinking the picture was so cool, and wondering what the artist was like. Finding Pokerdogs in that old magazine was one of the things that probably inspired me to draw similar characters later.

I have not been thorough in gathering the background information on all of the pictures here, so just take them as a quick look at my collection. When I find any Dogville movies on tape, disk, or video file, I'll try to add some snapshots of those too.

Thanks go to Cam for helping to get some of these, to the artists, Coolidge, Sarnoff, Poncelot, and unknown.

Woof!

Thanks for coming by here today.