Alonzo Williams is an animator and comics artist with a BFA in Drawing from the University of Missouri – Columbia. He is currently a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration & Visual Culture (MFA-IVC) program at Washington University in St. Louis. This two-year, fully residential program combines studio practice with writing and research into visual and material culture, particularly suited for illustrators, comic artists, and visual storytellers. He received the Catherine M. and Stanley R. Miller Scholarship for his studies with additional support that extended to a full tuition scholarship. Alonzo draws from his personal connections with comics, video games, and the Christian faith to explore penmanship and design. His characters and environments exploit repetition and technical rigor to play with metanarrative and the art of paneling. The relationship between movement and complexity takes center stage in his work. After graduating from Wash U in 2027, he is interested in possibly starting his own art business, doing work in museums or teaching.