Hi, friends. My name is Stephen Bobbett. I’m a brand and marketing director. On nights and weekends, I’m an illustrator, writer, and animator. I like geeking out about media, culture, art, and communications. I’m currently based in New England.
I post new blogs here and on Ko-Fi Mon-Wed-Fri, and I stream on Twitch Sat-Sun 10am EST. If you’d like to support my creative work:
Streaming
I stream on Twitch as FancySchmancy, an eldritch undersea gentleman on a scholarly quest to draw every creature in the multiverse. Join me Saturday mornings EST to suggest what creatures I draw, and Sunday mornings EST for crosswords and chitchat.
Recent Posts
The Gatekeepers Are Not On Our Side
(1,101 words, 6 min read time) Sometimes I encounter a photograph from American history that burns itself into my brain, like the floaters you get from glimpsing at the sun …
Gulper Eel
Rudolph the Red-Butt Wriggler is here just in time for the Christmas season.
A Defense—or an Elegy—for the Em Dash
My favorite punctuation mark is now a harbinger of generative AI. That won't stop me from using it—or writing anything in general.
Creature Feature: Snowmen
Behold the forsaken frosty beasts from the latest episode of the Fancy Schmancy Creature Feature.
Bluesky Isn’t What You Think It Is
The new social media platform could be more than just a Twitter escape hatch, but only if the dream of a decentralized protocol is fully realized and accessible.
Does the Jaguar Rebrand Matter?
Why was the internet so angry about a luxury car brand that so few of us will ever own?
Redoing My Website
I edited HTML.For some people, this would be hell.I'm the wrong tree to bark upFor anything but markup,But in markup I'm HTM-swell.
Creature Feature: Turkeys
Drawings of turkeys based on Twitch chat suggestions during the FancySchmancy Creature Feature.
Chthonic The Horror
Your sanity is a chili dog. And Chthulu's worked up an appetite. This was a merch design my Twitch chat and I imagined months ago, and I finally got around …
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