With the help of members of the Bernard Cosey Facebook page, all cartoon characters and objects of this image from Yiyun (page 53) have been identified.
Most of the items are well-known among comics fans, but some have been harder to identify.
For instance, Globi. It is a cartoon bird, originally a mascotte of the Swiss Globus Warehouses. The blue parrot has been created by Robert Lips in 1932. In 1948 already, there were one million copies of Globi books sold. In 2026, the 100th book of Globi will appear. In 2003 a Globi movie was released and in 2008 a Globi play garden was opened in Engelberg. But probably, if you are not Swiss, you won’t know the bird.
Le Flagada will also be one of the more unknown characters. It seems to be a bird too – an egg shaped one with what looks like a propeller. It was created by Charles Degotte in 1961. The first album was published twenty years later. In 2008, the series was shortly revived by Zidrou and Bercovici.
Thanks to Dinu Logoz & members of the Bernard Cosey Facebook group.