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
Frank Miller (newspaper cartoonist) Frank Miller (newspaper cartoonist) Frank Miller (October 2, 1898 – December 3, 1949) was an American cartoonist. Born in Sheldon, Iowa, Miller was most famous for his comic strip "Barney Baxter in the Air", created in 1936 for King Features Syndicate, and renamed simply "Barney Baxter" in 1943. Miller spent his early thirties working on staff at Denver's "Rocky Mountain News" where he created "Barney Baxter" in 1935 for the paper's "Junior Aviator" page. Miller sold his first cartoon in 1919 and slowly built up his professional reputation. By the mid-1920s, he decided to make cartooning his full-time profession, working