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
Samuel (cartoonist) a Dull Moment". After the War he worked in Lahore as a portrait painter. His first stint as cartoonist was in Lahore at the Civil & Military Gazette. Following the Partition of India in 1947, he came to Delhi where he joined Shankar’s Weekly contributing the silent strip cartoon "Kalu and Meena" and other social cartoons. This early strip was about two children of refugees from Lahore. After four years, he left to join the Delhi edition of The Times of India as staff cartoonist, creating the country's first pocket cartoon, 'This is Delhi' in 1953. It even found a