The Ticking TOK

Background Noise Comics
2 min readMar 18, 2024

Bittersweet day. We made this comic on the anniversary of Lisa’s Father’s death. It is a tribute to him, especially since we’ve set off on an adventure with the Atelier Artist Residency Program, where we’ll be staying in a Chateaux outside of Chartres, France for a few weeks!

Lisa’s parents traveled the world and modeled the importance of physically getting out of your comfort zone to open your mind. Lisa’s father was very good with languages and could pick up the native tongue in most places — and she got her love of learning other languages from him! When her parents returned from their first…

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Background Noise Comics

Diary comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.