Columbia, Missouri -
Bronze Beetle Bailey

Comic strip artist Mort Walker was a University of Missouri alumnus. Beetle sits at a table with a beer.

Address:
Conley Ave., Columbia, MO
Directions:
In front of the Reynolds Alumni Center on the University of Missouri campus. I-70 exit 126. South on Hwy 163/Providence Rd almost two miles, then left onto Turner Ave. The Alumni Center is one block north, on Conley Ave.

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On the University of Missouri campus there is a life-size statue of Beetle Bailey as a college student. Mort Walker (the writer of the Beetle Bailey comic strip) was a student at the University and started the comic strip there with Beetle as a college student. [Bryan, 02/17/2002]

[RA: The statue was erected in front of the alumni center in 1992; cartoonist and alum Mort Walker attended the dedication.]

Statue salutes Beetle Bailey creator
A half-ton bronze statue of Beetle Bailey is being moved to the University of Missouri campus where the lay about enlisted man cartoon character was conjured. Mort Walker created Bailey while hanging out at a local beer joint called the Shack, which burned down in 1988.... [06/19/1999] Complete News Story

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