Papyrus (comics)

Papyrus
The seventeenth book in the series, Tutankhamun, from left to right: Papyrus, Théti-Chéri and Pouin
Publication information
PublisherDupuis (French)
Cinebook (English)
FormatOngoing series
GenreAlternate history fiction
No. of issues36 (in French)
7 (in English)
Creative team
Created byLucien De Gieter

Papyrus is a Belgian comic book series, written and illustrated by Lucien De Gieter. The story takes place in ancient Egypt. It was first published in 1974 in Spirou magazine in the form of episodes.

An animated series was created in 1998 that was two seasons long (52 episodes) and shown on TFOU in France and in Quebec on Radio-Canada. It also aired on Unis in 2016.

In 2000, a video game for the Game Boy Color was developed by Planet Interactive Development and published by Ubisoft.