Paulus the woodgnome

Paulus de Boskabouter
Author(s)Jan van Oort, aka Jean Dulieu
Current status/scheduleTerminated
Launch dateFebruary 2, 1946
End date1984
Genre(s)Fantasy comics

Paulus the woodgnome (Dutch: Paulus de boskabouter) was a Dutch newspaper comic strip, which ran between 1946 and 1984. Its popularity inspired a series of children's novels, a radio series and a television puppet series. It was created by Jan van Oort (pseudonym Jean Dulieu), who personally made all adaptations of his work. Paulus was translated into German, English, Swedish and Japanese.