Are there Humans in Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Comic Books?

Question

There are certainly plenty of people in those comics, but a lot of them are anthropomorphic birds and anthropomorphic mammals.

I do remember a lot of people who looked similar to humans back when I read those comic books, but I don't remember closely inspecting them to see if they were drawn like comic book humans or like one or more species of anthropomorphic mammals.

So I ask if the majority of human-looking characters in Duckburg or Mouseton and in the wide world are humans or anthropomorphic mammals in the mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comic books.

Answer 1

There are several human characters in the comic-book Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck universe.

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Hard Haid Moe - A "hill-billy" first seen in the italian Topolino - Goofy: It's Music? (1964)

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Firmina - Moe's maid (and future would-be love interest) first seen in Urtigão #80 - Uma Intrusa Especiar (A special intruder)

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Eega Beeva, a "human from the future" debuting in Mickey and Donald: Mickey Mouse and the Man from Tomorrow

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Nereus - A human wizard first seen in Wizards of Mickey #1

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The Red Wasp - A human superhero seen in Mickey Mouse and Friends: The Red Wasp Mystery

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Karylissa - A human female first seen in Topolino #1846 - La guarnigione segreta (The secret garrison)

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Barzan - A parody of Tarzan first seen in Super Goof #3 - The Giant Windoola Jade

Answer 2

Carl Barks, the creator of Uncle Scrooge (and most of the extended Duck family) was usually careful to make all of his supporting characters into animals. Most important characters were ducks, (or the occasional goose), and most secondary characters were dogs.

Unfortunately, the time during which he did most of his stories was a time of strong implicit racism, and many of his most racist characters were indeed human, but might be considered sub-human enough that it made it past the Artist's notice and that of the censors as well.

When Gladstone Publishing reprinted the story Voodoo Hoodoo in their Comic Album series, editor Geoffrey Blum wrote a commentary on the initially very racist characterizations, and how the censorship process changed over time.

"Voodoo Hoodoo" was originally published in 1949. Then...it...vanished. Had [the zombie] been a white zombie, he might have returned before now; but Bark's comic was packed with black stereotypes. The Disney Studio was understandably reluctant to reprint images which in later years could give offence. For this reason, old-time readers will notice some changes in this edition. Facial features have been retouched, sharpened teeth are gone, and to downplay the elements of caricature further, all the blacks have been given dog noses like their white counterparts.

The images above were taken from

https://inducks.org/fr/richard/barks/censored.html

Several other images can be found there, as well.

Answer 3

Anthropomorphic mammals.

While there are some standard humans (as noted in Valorum's answer), most of the people we see (aside from the primary cast) are humanoids with some vaguely canine features (the nose, mostly), rather than actual humans:

There's Chief O'Hara (no relation) in the Mickey Mouse stories:

There's the Beagle Boys, of course (their dog-like noses are a bit more prominent than usual, probably tied to their name):

And, in the Barks and Rosa comics in particular, these same creatures tend to populate crowd scenes:

(These last two images from the Don Rosa story "A Matter of Gravity").

Answer 4

As a fan and a collector of the Hard Haid Moe Brazilian comic (he was kind of "adopted" by our studio, probably because of his constant interactions with Fethry, another favourite of us), I would like to complement the first answer and say that not only Firmina, but almost all the characters at the "Moeniverse" are human beings.

Also, in the "Spy Mickey" set of stories, he and Goofy were the only anthropomorphic animals in a world of human beings.I believe they were drawn by Paul Murry.