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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Creature Feature: Dermot the Bwog
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 plan. He plays …
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 …
Consider the Angler Fish
North Church on Congress Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Oct. 18, 2026 Listen, I’m bad at protesting. It’s not that I lack conviction. In fact, I’m prone to one-on-one …
Peacemaker Season 2 Review
Promo artwork from the Peacemaker series. I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for James Gunn. Yeah, there’s some valid criticism of his cinematic crutches: his reliance on licensed music, the gratuitous …
Skellyfish
This October’s drawing obsession: drawing skeletons for things that don’t actually have them. I think it’s inspired by wandering through a Spirit Halloween one year and seeing a plastic figuring …
Skeleton Tavern Keeper
A spooky, scary barkeep kicks of a month of skeleton drawings for Halloween.
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