Marsupilami Statue, Middelkerke

The Marsupilami grins from his pedestal with the North Sea behind him, his famously long tail coiled at his feet, photographed on Middelkerke's seafront in 2018. Josiane Vanhoutte's bronze of André Franquin's jungle creature became one of the most popular stops on the town's comic statue walk. Like the other figures, it was taken off the dike for building works, and the town has announced a new comic statue park beside Arthur Degreefplein to hold them, so check where it stands before you go.