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
Henry Martin (cartoonist) and nineteen-sixties Mr. Martin provided numerous comic illustrations for books published by the Peter Pauper Press in Mount Vernon. Martin received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1978 for his work. Henry Martin (cartoonist) Henry Martin (born July 15, 1925, in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American cartoonist. His parents Lyman and Adele Martin were Christians. He has an older brother Lyman Jr. and a younger sister Adele. He went to high school at Texas Country Day (now St. Mark's School of Texas) in Dallas, then graduated from Princeton University in 1948 with a degree in Art History. He