| Dungeon (Donjon) | |
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| Created by | Joann Sfar Lewis Trondheim |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Delcourt |
| Original language | French |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 1998 – Present |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Joann Sfar Lewis Trondheim |
| Artist(s) | Various |
Dungeon (French title: Donjon) is a series of comic fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists. It is originally published in France since 1998 by Delcourt as a series of graphic albums; English editions of a large amount of stories have been released by NBM Publishing between 2002 and 2023 in translations by Joe Johnson, first in a black-and-white periodical version and then as several color graphic novels.
The series is a parody of sword and sorcery conventions in general, and specifically of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. All of the characters are either anthropomorphic animals or other strange creatures. The "dungeon" of the title is, in the original series, a business establishment run by a mild-mannered chicken, where heroes come in search of adventure and treasure and invariably die. The timeline in the main continuity is described as the stages of day; the series that lead up to the dungeon's creation are described in the Potron-Minet (Dawn) segment, the castle's glory days are described as its Zénith (Zenith), and its inevitable decay is described in the Crépuscule (Twilight) stories.