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Peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs) have recently gained significant attention for the targeted delivery of anticancer therapeutics, mainly due to their cost-effective and chemically defined production and lower antigenicity compared to ADCs, among other benefits. In this study, we designed and synthesized novel PDCs by conjugating new thiol-functionalized tubulysin analogs (tubugis) to bombesin, a peptide ligand with a relevant role in cancer research. Two tubulysin analogs bearing ready-for-conjugation thiol groups were prepared by an on-resin multicomponent peptide synthesis strategy and subsequently tested for their stand-alone in vitro anti-proliferative activity against human cancer cells, which resulted in IC50 values in the nanomolar range. In addition, various fluorescently labeled [K5]-bombesin(6–14) peptides, non-lipidated and lipidated with fatty acid chains of variable length, were also synthesized using the versatile multicomponent chemistry. These bombesin derivatives were tested for their gastrin-related peptide receptor (GRPR)-mediated internalization into cancer cells using flow cytometry, proving that the lipid tail (especially C14) enhances the cell internalization. Using the tubugi toxins and bombesin peptides, three different bombesin-tubugi conjugates were synthesized with different cleavage propensity and lipophilicity. Preliminary in vitro experiments revealed that, depending on the linker and the presence of a lipid tail, these novel PDCs possess good to potent anticancer activity and moderate selectivity for GRPR-overexpressing cancer cells.