Stephen Bobbett
LightNews LightNews
banner
stephenbobbett.com
Stephen Bobbett
@stephenbobbett.com
110 followers 69 following 570 posts
Brand and marketing director. Writer, illustrator, and animator for fun. Art, culture, media, and communications geek. Streaming on Twitch as a pen-wielding 2D eldritch horror.

stephenbobbett.com
twitch.tv/fancyschmancy
Posts Replies Media Videos
stephenbobbett.com
If you unlock a song in a Nintendo game soundtrack, it should also unlock the song in the Nintendo music app.
The Norman Rockwell painting “Freedom of Speech,” showing a man in a leather jacket and blue flannel speaking at a political gathering.
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Heads up, tomorrow's newsletter includes a 20% off discount code for jack-o-lantern merch. Because much like Spirit Halloween in November, I need to see spooky flying off the shelves. Sign up here! pencilbooth.com/stephenbobbett
A black coffee mug with illustrations of cartoony jack-o-lanterns A purple coaster with illustrations of cartoony jack-o-lanterns A sticker sheet with illustrations of themed jack-o-lanterns: a chicken, a barrel of monkeys, a fish bowl of piranhas, a many-limbed homunculus, and a unicorn.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Hello, Sharks. Today I’m pitching you a calcium supplement that doubles as a male enhancement drug. We’re calling it
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
stephenbobbett.com
If you make a face, it might stay that way.

Happy Halloween. 🎃 fancyschmancy-shop.fourthwall.com

#halloween #pumpkin #jackolantern #digitalart #illustration #merchdesign
A hand-drawn digital illustration by Stephen Bobbett of a dozen or so jack-o-lanterns with exaggerated shapes and various facial expressions and animal features on a purple background.
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Last week I finished Donkey Kong Bananza, a game that dares to ask, is there more to life than just banana? stephenbobbett.com/donkey-kong-...
A screen grab of Donkey Kong Bananza. Donkey Kong and Pauline meet the Exploritone, a blue crystal with eyes among a library of tablets.
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Wrote a blog about the No Kings rally experience. And while this isn’t the most important takeaway, I want to buy the angler fish costume I saw there.

Anyway. stephenbobbett.com/consider-the...
North Church on Congress Street in Portsmouth, NH on a clear day with a few trees with autumn leaves underneath it
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
stephenbobbett.com
We’ve had 250 years with no kings. Here’s to 250 more. Thanks for showing up, Portsmouth NH.
Protesters at the No Kings rally in Market Square of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Protesters at the No Kings rally in Market Square of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Lobsters love liberty.
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Wrote a little review of Peacemaker S2. All in all, a very uneven story that didn’t build much on S1 or give its heavier themes any space to breathe. But Freddie Stroma’s Vigilante is still peak vaudevillian comedy. stephenbobbett.com/peacemaker-s...
October 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
stephenbobbett.com
"The Hobbits should've just taken the Eagles into Mordor."

Meanwhile Sauron, a giant eye surveying the clouds of Mordor day and night without blinking:
October 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
stephenbobbett.com
This October’s drawing obsession: drawing the skeletons of things that don’t have skeletons.

Behold, the skellyfish. stephenbobbett.com/skellyfish/

#digitalart #halloween #illustration #procreate
October 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Drawing spooky, scary skeletons this month for the Halloween season. Kicking it off with a tavern keeper, requested in Twitch chat. More to come! stephenbobbett.com/skeleton-tav...
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Creature Feature requests, niece and nephew editions.
October 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Been catching up on The Righteous Gemstones. Here’s the heir apparent Jesse, sling at the ready.
A comic-style illustration of Danny McBride’s character Jesse Gemstone from the Righteous Gemstones, holding a sling
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Procreate came out with all these great new brushes, and the one I’m most excited for is a single-width, hard-edged comic brush that feels like a regular felt-tip pen.

Anyway, here’s a weird slug monster based on a scribble.
October 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Sunday blog: reflecting on my on-and-off-again relationship with California while listening to the Goo Goo Dolls in a laundromat. stephenbobbett.com/broken-and-k...
September 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
stephenbobbett.com
I don’t know much about the Bug Game, but happy Bug Game Day to all who celebrate.
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Hey, I made a meme.
The angry NPC meme. The dialogue: "You'd get better results from an LLM if you wrote better prompts." "If I have to write better to get an AI to write better, then what do I need the AI for?" *angry face*
August 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
stephenbobbett.com
My thoughts on James Gunn’s Superman! Long story short, it’s the Superman our enshittified era needs and the rhetorical answer to our real-life Lex Luthors. stephenbobbett.com/the-real-pun...
July 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Kindness is the new punk rock. #superman
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
stephenbobbett.com
It’s the 4th of July, and America, a nation of immigrants, is making life worse for immigrants.

I thought about this through the lens of my family trying to find non-existent Irish roots, and how it reflects America’s complicated sentiments on immigration.

stephenbobbett.com/we-shouldnt-...
July 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Watched THUNDERBOLTS a couple of weeks ago. A superhero movie that scratches an itch for indie aesthetics, and kind of poignant about the fight against loneliness.

Drawing and blog: stephenbobbett.com/you-cant-fig...

#art #digitalart #inkdrawing #illustration #thunderbolts #marvel
A digital ink drawing with a portrait of Florence Pugh as her character Yelena in Thunderbolts. The main villain The Void looms behind her.
June 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Been thinking a lot about how the genAI movement resembles the gentrification I’ve watched happen in the places I’ve lived throughout the years.

Today’s ink drawing and blog: stephenbobbett.com/no-web-left-...
A digital ink drawing of a Greek-style marble bust of a cyclop’s head with curly hair and laurels around his temple. Words on its pedestal read “Machina Est Deus.” The URL attribution is for me, the artist: stephen bobbett.com.
May 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
stephenbobbett.com
Saw some of the output of Google Veo 3, and I gotta say, y’all: the internet might be over.

Today’s doodle and blog: stephenbobbett.com/is-the-inter...
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
stephenbobbett.com
Last week's Creature Feature drawings, based on the theme "Vampiric." Twitch chat suggested Jack Black the Ripper, Skibidi Toilet, and Dracula with too many Renfields.

stephenbobbett.com/the-fancysch...

#art #digitalart #inkdrawing #vampires #creaturedesign #characterdesign #illustration
An ink drawing of Jack Black as a vampire, smiling at the camera while a fart cloud emanates from his posterior. An ink drawing of a Skibidi Toilet vampire with a cape and bat wings An ink drawing of Dracula surrounded by a quintet of adorable baby Renfields, tugging at his hands and cape, jumping around, and clinging to his legs
May 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM