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Home Is Where the Comic Is.
For this comic creator, the Big Apple still shines.
The idea of Background Noise Comic is to tell stories from the vantage of our couch. Why? Because we’re parked there a lot of the time. But that couch lives in a house in Brooklyn, a borough that lives in New York City — a city, we love.
Not in Kansas anymore.
We grew up in the suburbs, and New York was always our Emerald City of arts and excitement. We followed the yellow brick road and once we got here, we stayed. We raised kids here, with its ups and downs, including hauling strollers into the subway to get to the pediatrician and playgrounds. It was worth it. This is where we wanted to be.
Not just a comic, a love letter.
In some ways, the comic is a daily love letter we write to each other. But it's also a love letter we both write to New York. However, like many New Yorkers, the pandemic has changed our relationship with our city and made us rethink how we engage with urban public spaces.
What’s New York really like?
Recently, a bunch of fiction-writing friends and I were talking about how to portray New York in our stories. When I was a kid, yellow cabs snaked through the streets, waiting for their next fare. But if you were to put a checkered cab in a story or a comic, it wouldn’t telegraph New York. Not like…
