Torbjørn told more about himself and his comics to Bored Panda. "The Norwegian Walt Disney comic magazine Donald Duck taught me how to read when I was 6 or something. I read comics all the time as a kid and started to make my own around 9 or 10, I guess. First for my friends, then for a local school paper, and as a 15-year-old I got a comic published every Saturday in the local newspaper in my hometown (Mosjøen in Norway). One or two years later, I had comics in print in a national comic magazine.
But that's just the surface of Torbjørn's relationship with comics; his influences run deeper than that. "As a creator of comic strips, I first was very inspired by Mort Walker's 'Beetle Bailey,' Dik Browne's 'Hägar the Horrible,' and Gordon Bess' 'Redeye.' All classical American cartoons. Then I discovered 'Calvin and Hobbes' by Bill Watterson, a comic I still think is the best comic strip ever made. That one taught me a lot about comic strips!
Also, when it comes to humor, Mad Magazine was very important to me. There I discovered artists like Sergio Aragonés and Don Martin, who both influenced my sense of humor in comics."
