Globi Globi Globi is a Swiss cartoon character occasionally referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as an anthropomorphic blue parrot with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checkered trousers. He was created by the Swiss cartoonist Robert Lips, as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the company's 25th anniversary. He was originally planned to be called "Kimbukku", but later renamed Globi after the local Basel German "(Baseldytsch)" dialect word for the department store that created him. He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called
Carl Rose (cartoonist) Carl Rose (cartoonist) Carl Rose (1903 – 1971) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in "The New Yorker", "Popular Science", "The Saturday Evening Post", and elsewhere. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award for 1958. Rose created one of the most famous "New Yorker" cartoons, published December 8, 1928, with a caption by E. B. White. In the cartoon, a mother at dinner says to her young daughter, "It's broccoli, dear." Her daughter answers, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." (The phrase "I say it's spinach" entered the vernacular; in 1932,