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
Robert Brown (cartoonist) of Illinois 1966. Brown was taking art classes and driving a Chicago Transit Authority Bus. While he was attending classes at the university he stopped by the Playboy Offices in Chicago to drop off some ideas and sketches which ran the next year. He began to develop a reputation as a cartoonist and sold his first cartoon to "Playboy" in 1962. "Granny" was his first color work for the magazine published in 1966. In all, Brown had more than 600 cartoons published by the magazine. Brown also had thousands of other drawings published by publications such as "Esquire", "Ebony" and