Black Age Heroes

 

Free Trading Cards at the Trading Post Museum Store!

 CHICAGO- Juneteenth, June 19th, 2022, from Noon until closing, the Trading Post Museum Shop of the DuSable Museum of African American History will be hosting a special Graphic Novels' and Trading Cards' Signing featuring the "Father of the Black Age of Comics", Prof. Turtel Onli. ,

 Added guest will be Johnathan Ford, the dynamic illustrator per the ONLI STUDIOS' "Nu Look" over-sized, limited-edition highly valued trading cards.  

ONLI STUDIOS LLC provides its fans readers, customers, and collectors with free, over-sized, limited edition Trading Cards of its Rhythmistic characters to express its appreciation for the independently minded support these enthusiasts demonstrate.  

This includes our Rhythmistic villains and heroes.  Sheroes and villanists.

Offering our Classique and Nu-Look!

This bold move to buy and embrace fresh, expansive creative characters that are robustly independent of the predictable orthodoxy of the mainstream is worthy of encouragement.

The mainstream's trading-cards are often less than half the size of the ones from ONLI STUDIOS and usually are not free!

Ford will be there signing the release of these cool hot cards for fans, collectors and lovers of art & history.

Prof. Onli is called the "Father of the Black Age" for coining the term, The "Black Age of Comics" as an affirming genre that celebrates material, concepts and creators derived from the Black, Urban, African and Alternative experience in 1993.  Plus, ONLI STUDIOS produced the world's first open source, indie Black Age Comic-Con.

Since then, many have scaffolded on the ONLI STUDIOS model.  

Due to COVID considerations this event is now an annual virtual production and has been rebranded, "Black Sankofa"!

FACT CHECK: The ONLI STUDIOS event is the first of its kind to be open to all folks, Black, White, Brown, Gay, Queer, Bi, Disabled, and Hot. 

This started in 1993 at a time when the mainstream comics world would never do such a thing and the current rash of imitators would not have been that bold and resourceful to expand the industry with both a radical new genre and a model event for those to learn and be safe in exploring and sharing of themselves.