![Morgan Sawyer poses with his characters](https://mfavisualnarrative.sva.edu/app/uploads/2023/06/msawyer1_SU20_PHOTO-416x416.jpg)
Morgan Kendric Sawyer is an illustrator/cartoonist based out of Richmond Virginia, where he currently teaches illustration at VSU and VCU. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Communication Arts and a BS in Mass Communications Creative Advertising in the Fall Class of 2011.
As a cartoonist Morgan has worked on a couple different comic series for various indie publishers and is releasing his first graphic novel Gaffe in 2021 with Iron Circus Comics. He helped establish a writing/art collective in 2016 titled Wilbur Nixon which continues to have an expanding ethos and catalogue and is currently under a revitalization as its members evolve and continue to push forward as creators.
Morgan’s primary influences as a creator are various mythologies and history as well as street art and graffiti.
“Better today than yesterday and even better tomorrow.”
![A small mushroom character bounces toward us happily](https://mfavisualnarrative.sva.edu/app/uploads/2023/06/MorganSawyer_MushroomTrip_Thesis-864x564.jpg)
A mushroom spirit maintaining this network of plants must set forth on a journey to discover what has disturbed the forest’s connection and reestablish it in order to save their home.