Trademarked Hodag Statue
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce, at the forefront of monster marketing, unveiled its own copyrighted and trademarked Hodag statue on the front lawn of its building. It was sculpted in the late 1990s by Rhineland Tracy Goberville.
Larger than life, with features softened to be more friendly than fearsome, it represents a considerable civic investment and one that we hope other monster-besieged towns will imitate -- even if this Hodag does look more like a misunderstood, ugly-yet-lovable beast from a pre-digital Disney film, rather than something that you'd blow up with dynamite.