Hi, friends. My name is Stephen Bobbett. I’m a brand and marketing director working in the footwear industry. I’m also an illustrator, writer, and animator for fun. I like geeking out about media, culture, art, and communications. I’m currently based in New England.
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The Line-Go-Uppigator
Buy Sticker The Line-Go-Uppigator, or reptilius adlunamus, is a serpentine dragon with a zigzagging neck that grows indefinitely towards the moon. Its eyes and snout are locked in a permanent …
The Pugnacious Pigcock
Buy the Sticker The Pugnacious Pigcock is an irascible avian-porcine hybrid with a proclivity for displays of feckless aggression. When provoked, it flourishes a tail made of red-tipped elliptical feathers, …
Vibe Coderpillar | The FancySchmancy Creature Feature
Buy the Sticker In a parallel world dominated by generative AI, the Vibe Coderpillar has evolved to become the ultimate cybernetic lifeform. It has grown two single-digit appendages for blindly …
Creature Feature: Long-Necked Frizzlians
BUY THE STICKER The male lonelinenss epidemic is tough, but I recently discovered a dimension where the men have found a solution. The men of the Long-Necked Frizzlians were once …
Creature Feature: Dermot the Bwog
buy the sticker Meet Dermot the Bwog, the latest entry in the FancySchmancy Creature Feature. Not to be confused with any felt-based amphibious puppets. Dermot lives in a sewage treatment …
Do Androids Sing Electric Hymns?
Adam Neely's essay on Suno reminds me of the AI-generated worship music I heard for the first time a couple of years ago.
Fonts Are Woke, I Guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJG30i6a4g (Photo: Guy Stevens) If you’re tired of being drafted into America’s culture wars, too bad. Now you’ve got to pick sides between two default fonts in Microsoft Word. I’m …
Roasting the 2026 Pantone Color of the Year
The 2026 Pantone Color of the Year is bad. Here's me roasting it 25 times.
The FancySchmancy Creature Feature: Jack-o-Lanterns
Another Halloween has come and gone, and if you thought I wasn't going to draw a ridiculous amount of jack-o-lanterns this year—well, then you're off your gourd.
Donkey Kong Bananza Review
Since the dawn of video games, one question has plagued both critics and philosophers alike: what if big ape like banana and punch good? Only one game has ventured to …
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