Since the late 1950s in the USA folks have been cast in shade and shame for being into Comic Books or Graphic Novels. Thus this dynamic medium , which is a challenging hybrid of Visual & Literary Art, is marginalized as something restricted to early youth. 

It is often not embraced as literature or art. Yet study after study confirms that folks who tend to read Comic Books & Graphic Novels have high reading comprehension skills based on standardized tests. Vaulted higher ordered cognition and more. Often ridiculed as being those weird lame geeky nerdy kids, they actually are those smarter, intelligent learners.

 This is why I maintain all of the principles of Kwanzaa in my 5 decades long creation, advocacy and publishing of the Rhythmistic Comics from ONLI STUDIOS LLC. I serious appreciate all of y'all for your positive participation. We at ONLI STUDIOS LLC and the growing Black Age of Comics genre could not had done our important work of creativity, culture, content & commerce without you.

 I often ask: How Black was the entire animation, comic book or Graphic Novels industry before we launched the Black Age of Comics in Chicago in 1993 at the historic South Side Community Art Center? As always it is our dreams versus the mainstreams.

Freshly inspired by his being featured in the 2021 blockbuster group exhibition, "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now! curated by Dan Nadel at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Prof. Onli has released the first hyper dynamic Rhythmistic Graphic Novels from ONLI STUDIOS LLC.

It comes with a Platinum treated cover and over 130 pages of serious Rhythmistic visual Fun. Fire, Funk & Flow. 

 "Where a picture in still worth a thousand words!"  

The reader is invited by sequences of insight, action, passion, drama and conflict to narrate the story in his or her words. They have never experienced a book like this one.  Featuring NOG, Malcolm-10, Sustah-Girl, Sasa and many more characters.  A true creative blending of the reader's interpretations and Prof. Onli's vision. It includes surprise links to experimental animations and more.  

Visit the Graphic Novels page at www.onlistudios.com to place your order. 

Each Order is shipped free, is wrapped in archival plastic including free over-sized trading cards. Currently at the cover price of $20.00!!!  You are highly valued, and this is highly collectible!

Art, Illustration, Music, Spoken Word & Animation!

 

 

 

 It is fantastic that the Black Age movement laid such a fertile foundation back in 1993 that anthologies such as this now percolate the literary horizon.  Black Age founder, Turtel Onli, M.A.A.T. contributed a Rhythmistic treatment of his "Malcolm-10" character to the book.  This is a unique collection of art, illustrations and poetry woven to draft on the trending Afrofuturism flow. Over 60 contributing creatives!

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The impressive Future-Primitif Rhythmistic Fine Art &

 NFTS created by Prof. Turtel Onli will be included in 

the Annual PRIZM ART EXPO!

 ONLI STUDIOS LLC has rebooted its long running relationship with the oldest museum in the United Stated dedicated to Black and African American History. 

Collectors,  Educators, Fans, Curriculum Coordinators, Scholars, Students & even most Haters will love going to the Trading Post Museum Store of the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago to witness and buy Afrofuture, Rhythmistic and Black Age Graphic Novels, Comix, and Activity Books from the world's only rack dedicated to this independently published and innovative genre. 

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Even Black Owned and operated mainstream comic-book stores or Afrocentered Stores refuse to feature a rack dedicated to independently published Black Age products!

 If you are not in Chicago you can always visit the Graphics Novels tab at ONLI STUDIOS LLC.

  Educators, Curriculum Coordinators, Scholars, Reading Specialists, Students, Coaches, and serious fans of the growing Black Age of Comics movement and the trending Afrofuturism genre will be excited and pleased to learn that ONLI STUDIOS LLC has successfully renegotiated its long productive relationship with the Trading Post Gift Shop of the DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago.  

The DuSable Museum is located at 5700 South Cottage Grove in Chicago near the prestigious University of Chicago campus.

They are selling this expanded line of Rhythmistic Graphic Novels, Comix, and Curriculum Guides which includes activity books on Going Green and being sustainable in the urban setting, horror, conflict resolution, the stimulation of creativity, and historical fiction.  

All books are packaged in archival plastic at no extra charge and many include highly valued, rare, free Rhythmistic Trading Cards at as ONLI STUDIOS' show of appreciation!

All exciting and appropriate for the classroom, library, community center, or home. 

They are highly collectable due to their limited press runs.

The Trading Post Gift Shop of the DuSable Museum, Chicago is the only place in the USA where all of these amazing Rhythmistic Graphics Novels, Comix & Activity books are sold! 

Chicago Public School educators have been pouring through to use their reimbursable funds to purchase this titles for their classes and resource centers adding an intelligent creative boost during these exciting times. 

 Prof. Onli often says: "A positive fantasy life in the foundation to a positive reality!  This includes historical fiction and positive conflict resolution."

  LINK to review per RHYTHMISM; Art As Social Change Making solo exhibition at the stately Gordon Parks Arts Hall of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School's Corvus Gallery.  

Insightful Curators, Forward thinking Collectors, Major Art Collecting  Museums and Scholars of Contemporary Art will appreciate this note:

 This is a rare powerful mini retrospective styled visual art exhibition that exudes Rhythmismtic visual artist's Prof. Turtel Onlii creative life of 'winning the peace'.  Which is what he calls taking the narratives in visual art derived from or of the Black American Experience beyond the narrow confines of celebrating suffering, poverty or oppression.  Here Onli shows that Rhythmism in a well though- out, standards' changing genre in the visual arts. 

 Intelligence and talent meets industrious vision and effort sustained over five decades.  

Onli offers the manifestation of self-determination as the foundation to winning the peace. His practice serves notice to many that there is much more going on in the Black American experience than legacies of  oppression or the self-destructive impact of thug-life.

Though Onli has had a dynamic five decades plus practice in Fine and Commercial Visual Art plus Art Education and Therapy mainstream galleries, elite Black Curators and Black Art  gallerists tend to avoid his revolutionary innovatively successful efforts in expanding the canon of the visual arts to accept and invest in a genre named, developed and expressed by an intelligent, gifted, dedicated Black Male.  They are so about protecting the Arts Establishment and serving the needs and dictates of the status quo they will only endorse terms, styles, or artists anointed by their financial handlers or professional superiors. These are the types of folks that would have never given the likes of Van Gogh recognition in his life time! So much for artistic diversity.......as Onli is still winning that peace achieved by so many in the United States of America.

 A simple internet or Wiki search supports this curiosity.

 NOG's Rhythmistic Reign over the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ends with the Oct. 3rd, 2021 closing of the blockbuster group exhibition, "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now!" curated by the insightful Dan Nadel.

 

The blockbuster group exhibition "CHICAGO COMICS" closes Oct. 3rd at the prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 

 The face of this impressive unique showcase was Turtel Onli's "NOG: The Nubian of Greatness", as it was featured in Museum Store merchandise along with being mural-sized on the outer wall of the Museum. NOG was even featured around Chicago on CTA transit stations signage.

 NOG is the first Rhythmistic character published by ONLI STUDIOS LLC in 1981 opening the door to the Black Age of Comics genre and all of its lovers & haters, moans and clones, cash and flash!

ONLI STUDIOS LLC has exploded the lame non-imaginative orthodox average Graphic Novels with the first truly multi-mega-Graphic Novels from the Rhythmic Zone where a picture is still worth a 1,000 words.  LINK 

  All for a mere $20.00 dollars.

It opens with the highly philosophical "Fight Book" then we are off to the Rhythmic Zone....in bold ass Black & White.

  Open to outcomes!

Dr. Onli has jettisoned beyond the pack.  Left them in their Crowd Funding Frenzy with the next logical move for his Rhythmistic characters. 

ONLI STUDIOS is a crowd leader and a crowd pleaser by going where the lamestream would not. 

Bring your imagination, interpretations and insights to this amazing and stimulating Rhythmistic multiglobal  Graphic Novel. LINK to ONLI STUDIOS LLC to place your order while they last.

 All of ONLI STUIDOS' ship for free! Per-packed in archival plastic. And they contain  unique over-sized limited edition Trading Cards to bulk up the value for your investment of time, money and attention.  

The lamestream takes you so  for granted in that it charges you for shipping, plastic packaging and also for its teeny-weeny little bitty dull trading cards.