22.07

Since 2011, Norwegian cartoonist Torbjørn Lien has contributed a single, self-contained issue to the Raptus Bergen Tegneseriefestival series, 22.07. This work stands as a somber, immediate artistic response to the 2011 Utøya and Oslo attacks, channeling the national trauma through Lien's stark, personal cartooning. As a festival publication, it represents a pivotal moment in modern Norwegian comics, where the medium was used to process a collective shock in real time.