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!

 DALLAS, TX.- A frenzy of eager bidders drove Frank Brunner's Doctor Strange No. 1 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1974) to $408,000, and an important collection kept its Promise of spectacular results to lead Heritage Auctions' near-sellout Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction to $17,823,949 last weekend.

When Doctor Strange was published in 1974, he was not yet a major Marvel character, but he has evolved into a major figure in the Marvel Comics Universe in the nearly six decades since. The Master of the Mystic Arts has solidified his stature through his role in MCU movies, as a character in Strange Tales and ultimately in his own title, with this image fronting the premiere issue.

"For original art from the 1970s to top $400,000 is incredible," Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President Ed Jaster said. "Frank Brunner's Doctor Strange covers set an unmatched standard for the character's artwork."

Promise Collection

Meanwhile, 355 lots from the historic Promise Collection Pedigree found new homes in the Nov. 18-21 sale, reaching a total of $4.69 million. The collection earned its moniker because the young boy who assembled the collection went off to war and never returned. For decades, the books were kept safe by his brother, who promised to protect the collection if anything happened to his brother on the battlefield. The lots in this sale represent the third installment from this extraordinary trove to be offered this year through Heritage Auctions.

CHICAGO - ONLI STUDIOS LLC has confirmed there are only three known copies of the landmark Graphic Novel / comic book. "NOG: The Protector of the Pyramides" in its archives. It is known in collector circles as the book and character that opened the door too the growing indie Black Age of Comics Movement/genre when it was published in 1981. It is experiencing a heightened profile since being featured in the 2021 blockbuster group exhibition, "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now".

 RHYTHMISM:  Future-Primitif pathways to creative expressions and processing was branded and launched by Prof. Turtel Onli, M.A.A.T., circa 1970s, as a manifestation of the Kwanzaa Principle of Kujichagulia. Self Determination. 

Unlike a current trending term that was christened by a non-Black or non-African to give a label to the creative expressions of those great people.  Habari Gani??

This unique solo Rhythmistic exhibition, that shows in a retrospective type presentation what Onli calls "Black Male Mojo" in real time and full visual genius, closes Dec. 10th, 2021. It is no accident that Onli's works would be presented in the building named after one of the greatest Balck Male visual thinkers of the 20th Century, the late ......prolific Gordon Parks!

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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!

Nov. 30th 2021 Until Dec. 10th 2021 

 MIAMI FL 

 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.