In a Jimmy Durante- narrated Rankin-Bass TV special, Professor Hinkle's hat brings one of them to life; that one is later taken to the North Pole by Santa.
In one fictional setting, the creation of one of these items called "The Spirit of Compromise" leads, ironically, to a fistfight. In that same fictional setting, one of them prompts the realization that "we should take pride in our mediocrity!" while another is dubbed "The Torment of Existence Weighed against the Horror of Nonbeing" and a third is used to inaugurate an art movement called "neo-regionalism". In another story in that setting, one of these things is brought to life and ends up creating an army of (*) "deranged mutant killer monster" versions of them. In a Jimmy Durante- narrated Rankin-Bass TV special, Professor Hinkle's hat brings one of them to life; that one is later taken to the North Pole by Santa. For 10 points, identify these wintery items which are regularly created by Calvin and Hobbes, other examples of which include the corncob pipe-carrying Frosty.
In one fictional setting, the creation of one of these items called "The Spirit of Compromise" leads, ironically, to a fistfight.
{snowmen} [or {snow goons;} or {snowpeople;} or {snow sculptures,} or other obvious equivalents]