Peter Chiykowski lives and schemes in Vancouver. He writes Rock, Paper, Cynic, an online comic with thousands of daily readers, and Little Worlds, an online urban fantasy graphic novel that benefits charity.
His poems n' short stories have been published in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 (Tightrope Books), The New Quarterly, On Spec, PRISM International, Grain, and a bunch of other magazines and anthologies across North America.
You can reach him at peter(AT-AT)rockpapercynic.com
and follow him on Google+
Rock, Paper, Cynic updates Mon/Fri. It's been printed in The SMU Journal, The Dalhousie Gazette, The Watch, and The Cadre and quoted by its readers in reviews, dating profiles, Urban Dictionary definitions, undergrad essays, and (in one case) an anesthetic-induced rant recorded during a surgery.
Little Worlds is collaborative "dreampunk" webcomic project that Peter started to raise money for Free the Children.
Peter invites anyone to print/publish his comics for free, just let him know what you're up to.
Peter has been hitting the keyboard pretty hard these days. In 2010 he did a Bachelor's in English and Creative Writing (and then a Master's in English) and now he's hooked on poetry and storytelling. Here's a list of stuff he's published:
- "Notes from the Canary Islands" (reprinted poem) in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 (Tightrope Books)
- "The Cinder Girl" (poem) in In the Garden of the Crow (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
- "Fossil Record" (poem) in PRISM #50.1
- "Shine" (story) in The New Quarterly #118
- "Transverse Love" (poem) in On Spec #84
- "Then Cried Arthur" (poem) in Fantastique Unfettered #2
- "Breathing Bones" (poem) in Basement Stories #3
- four poems in Grain #37.4
- Review of The Divinity Gene in Numero Cinq
He's currently working on several new short stories and a collection of poems with a novel lurking in the back of mind.
Peter has a home recording studio where he makes music to release along with his comic. The first volume of music, Some Songs for Some People, can be bought in the Rock, Paper, Cynic Store. The second volume, The Black n' Blues, is currently in progress.
"[Chiykowski] goes for the throat with unmatched relentlessness [...] RPC delivers a caustic and critical edge" (This Week in Webcomics)
"if there truly is a god of webcomics, they will smile upon [RPC]" (Coyote Trax's Webcomic Critique)
"Some of the best quotes and pictures I've ever seen" (Apollo Fireweaver Reviews)"amazingly entertaining and insightful" (FCWebcomics)
"consistently brilliant" (a secret garden)
