About Pyra
Pyra Draculea is an artist and author based on the West Coast of Canada. As a kid, she read every issue of Metal Edge, Circus, and Rip religiously and assumed she would grow up to be a rock star just like Axl Rose—I mean, how hard could it be? Unfortunately, none of her friends played guitar and neither did she, so starting a band in high school wasn’t really an option, and her lack of organizational skills made figuring out how to sneak into the States to move to LA a non-starter, so that never happened.
A brief foray into making weird electronic noise “music” as maQLu (2009-2015) did introduce her to the Vancouver music industry scene and provided her with a ton of gossip and experiences to mine for her current projects spoofing the ridiculousness of rock n roll… insert some high falutin’ nonsense about examining and satirizing the redirection of mankind’s innate psychological requirements to worship a higher power from the glorification of God to the idealization and objectification of human celebrities here.
(No, she’s not bitter about having failed to become one of those celebrities, why do you keep asking?)
These days, the music thing is mostly represented by the sizeable ’80s and ’90s rock memorabilia collection covering her walls and otherwise clogging up her house, plus the dusty collection of old synthesizers, drum machines, guitars, FX gear, and—for some reason—a bass clarinet, and she has gone back to her other first and forever loves: drawing and inventing entire fictional worlds in her head. These come out in the form of cartoons, comics, graphic novels, and short stories.
Draculea’s current projects include Noah’s Archipelago (starring stay-at-home-dad-by-day/cover-band-rockstar-by-night Noah Thorsen), Ricky B. the Rock N Roll Rat (a punk rock rat-man livin’ the dream as the low man on the recording studio totem pole), and Zamo the Destroyer (about a megalomaniacal iguana hellbent on taking over the world—or at least the neighborhood—in between naps). She likes to describe her work as “whimsical rock n roll wannabe comics” full of “rats and brats.”
(Also, she is working on some medieval illumination-style illustrations and a 1980s Memphis-group inspired quilt. Just to keep things weird and further confuse the algorithms.)
Her first book, Bring Me the Royal Flip-Flops: A Noah’s Archipelago Comics Treasury, was released in October 2026 and is available from Amazon.
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