About Us
About Melancholy Mutants
Welcome to Melancholy Mutants—where the weird, the dark, and the unapologetically nerdy collide. Founded by a lifelong art lover and graphic designer with a passion for the macabre, we revel in all things eerie, strange, and beautifully unsettling.
For over four decades, the restless spirit behind Melancholy Mutants has roamed the artistic underworld, drawn to the shadows like a moth to an eldritch flame. Now, that lifelong fascination has taken digital form—summoning nightmarish creations from the void and fusing horror, gothic folklore, and nerdy obsessions into eerie, pixelated relics.
Melancholy Mutants is a haven for those who celebrate creativity, individuality, and the wonderfully strange. We are proudly LGBTQ+ inclusive and stand firmly against racism, fascism, and discrimination in any form. No matter your background, identity, or quirks—you are welcome here. Hate has no home in our world. Only those who believe in equality, kindness, and unapologetic self-expression need enter.
If you crave eerie aesthetics, live for horror, and embrace the bizarre—you’ve found your haunt. Welcome to the darkness. We’ve been expecting you.
About the Artist
Melancholy Mutants is the current evolution of Heather Wright’s ever-shifting creative universe—a space where digital art meets the eerie, the emotional, and the unapologetically odd. Before pixels and prints, Heather was the mind behind Scared Crow Steamworks, a jewelry brand that blended steampunk aesthetics, nautical nostalgia, and horror into intricate, wearable curiosities.
But as life changed, so did her creative path. After the death of her father, and four years later, the loss of her mother—whom she had cared for part-time—Heather stepped away from jewelry-making after realizing she lost the fire that fueled her creativity. In the stillness that followed, she began exploring digital drawing. What started quietly became a steady, meaningful shift—offering her a way to reconnect with creativity and continue making art in a new and deeply personal form.
Melancholy Mutants was born from that space: raw, weird, and fiercely honest. As the said above, “For those who wear their weirdness like armor,” this brand is a love letter to the beautifully bizarre. Heather’s work doesn’t just exist to be seen—it exists to be felt, worn, and remembered.