Apparently there's no shortage of statues of classic favorite kids' characters: Popeye, Peter Pan, Desperate Dan, Superman, Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan.
There's also a recent wave of statues of "golden age" American television characters, in many cases funded or organized by corporate interests like the TV Land channel: Mary Richards from the Mary Tyler Moore Show (Minneapolis), Andy Taylor from the Andy Griffith Show (North Carolina), Bob Hartley from the Bob Newhart Show in Chicago, Ralph Kramden from the Honeymooners at the Port Authority in New York, and maybe Fonzie in Milwaukee. Eventually, we'll probably see the Cheers gang in Boston and the Frasier gang in Seattle and the Seinfeld gang in front of that diner in New York.
The good people of Fargo, MN have put up a statue of Marge Gunderson, the cop protagonist from the film Fargo.
But focusing on prose lit instead of comics and TV and movies, I don't think there are many. There are apparently lots of statues of Sherlock Holmes around. But it rapidly gets into gray areas of genre: does Tarzan count? Peter Pan is obviously from a prose book, originally, but certainly most people know him from Disney nowadays.
I seem to remember reading about a Wind In the Willows statue group somewhere but I'm tired of googling now.
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There's also a recent wave of statues of "golden age" American television characters, in many cases funded or organized by corporate interests like the TV Land channel: Mary Richards from the Mary Tyler Moore Show (Minneapolis), Andy Taylor from the Andy Griffith Show (North Carolina), Bob Hartley from the Bob Newhart Show in Chicago, Ralph Kramden from the Honeymooners at the Port Authority in New York, and maybe Fonzie in Milwaukee. Eventually, we'll probably see the Cheers gang in Boston and the Frasier gang in Seattle and the Seinfeld gang in front of that diner in New York.
The good people of Fargo, MN have put up a statue of Marge Gunderson, the cop protagonist from the film Fargo.
But focusing on prose lit instead of comics and TV and movies, I don't think there are many. There are apparently lots of statues of Sherlock Holmes around. But it rapidly gets into gray areas of genre: does Tarzan count? Peter Pan is obviously from a prose book, originally, but certainly most people know him from Disney nowadays.
I seem to remember reading about a Wind In the Willows statue group somewhere but I'm tired of googling now.