Papyrus (comic)

Papyrus
The seventeenth book in the series, Tutankhamun from left to right : Papyrus, Théti-Chéri and Pouin
Publication information
Publisher	Dupuis (French) Cinebook (English)
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Graphic Novel
No. of issues	35 (in French) 6 (in English)
Creative team
Created by	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 TV in France and in Quebec on Radio-Canada. It is airing in 2016 on Unis.

In 2000 a video game was made for Game Boy developed by Dupuis and published by Ubisoft.

In the beginning, Horus the falcon god of light and Set the god of evil fought to control Egypt. The council of the Gods decided, Set was sent to exile and Horus became the first pharaoh of Egypt. For two thousand years, pharaoh succeeded pharaoh. But Set had plotted his revenge, and deep inside his sinister black pyramid of Ombos, Set imprisoned Horus in a magic sarcophagus. From then on, and no longer protected by the god Horus, Egypt was at the mercy of Set and his servant Aker. So the gods chose Papyrus, a young fisherman who must find the secret entrance to Ombos, free the god Horus and restore peace to Egypt.

The two main characters are:

Regular side-characters include:

Thirty-three albums have been published so far:

Since November 2007, Cinebook Ltd has been publishing Papyrus in English. Six albums have been released so far:

Canadian animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle documented his experiences while working on this animated series in 1997 in Shenzhen (comics)