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Comic Book: Mike

Mike (full title: "Mike, der Taschengeldexperte" - "Mike, the pocket money expert") was a German comic that was distributed to kids for free, by the Volksbank / Raiffeisenbank. It's about the various mishaps of the hamster Mike, who tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to augment his pocket money with various odd jobs.

Other important characters:

Alfred, Mike's father
Dr. Karl H�hn, Mike's friend, a mixture of bird and mouse
Bilne: A living, talking lightbulb from Hongkong who speaks all the R's as L's and looks much like Chinese people in older, un-PC works. Then again, Bilne isn't a human, not even a living being... er... you know what we mean.
Gierschlund Wolf, the recurring villain of the strip

Examples:

All Trolls Are Different
Ambiguous Species: Dr. Karl H�hn
Catch Phrase: "Oh-oh-oh" for Dr. Karl H�hn
Everything's Worse with Wolves: Gierschlund Wolf
Genre Shift: Pretty egregious. Mostly, it's about Mike various mishaps in various jobs; but then there was the Zwergenwald arc where the friends met dwarves and other fantasy beings hidden in the city's forest and had to fight an evil sorceror.
Hero Stole My Harpoon: When Mike learned to be a lifeguard.
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: In the Zwergenwald arc.
Species Surname: Mike Hamsterbacke (Backe = cheek)
Standard '50s Father: Mike's. The comic is newer, but in small cities in Germany, this trope is close enough to Truth in Television to play it straight.
Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Part of the premise.