2023: BLACK SANKOFA 3.0 BLACK AGE DOMINATION!!! Circa 1992 - 2023.

Prof. Onli often asks a simple question as evidence of this impact. 

"How Black was this industry before the launch of the indie Black Age of Comics genre and movement in 1992?"

There is the powerful emergence of ECBACC, Motor City Black Age & Manga, OYNX CON, Black Comix Day, Black Comics Art Festival, Afro Con, Pocket Con, and the longest running originator event, Black Age of Comics, Chicago.

At the National Treasure Designated WPA Era South Side Community Art Center in the historic Bronzeville District of Chicago. Where the first Black Age of Comics Convention was given by 

ONLI STUDIOS in Feb. 1993. BOMB!

This is about the continued growth of indie Black Age publishers and others who produce an array of brilliant high-quality product with serious growth potential derived from the Black, African, Indie, Urban or Alternative experience.

Coast to coast we have seen major museums and important cultural centers presenting exhibitions featuring some type of Black Age of Comics theme.

The publishing of highly prized anthologies such as "Black Comix!", "Black Comix Returns!", and "Its Life As I See It!". 

Then mainstream's shift to rigorously investing and profiting from its former under-utilized Black characters and concepts that before 1992 were not taken seriously or to the bank.

Major colleges and universities have added Black Age type courses and hired Black Age architects to leacture and present aspects of this nexus of creativity, culture, and commerce.

This is what domination looks like in real time.

NOTE: Since COVID hit, the annual Chicago based Black Age convention has morphed into a virtual convention rebranded Black Sankofa.

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We often produce tie-in exhibitions with the likes of the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

We network with folks like Andre' Batts, the founder and producer of the

 Motor City Black Age & Manga Convention in  Detroit.

We greatly appreciate the supportive participation from fans, vendors, and sponsors!

We fill spaces with the positives in Black Age-related

 Indie and Mainstreamed Comix, Graphic Novels, workshops, panels and exhibitions.

We have sponsored Cosplay Competitions and performances!

A blast from the past........on our way to the future!

 

 Email: Multiglobe@aol.com

Chicago was a dynamic hub in all of this during the late 1960s throughout the 1970s. It offered a youthful Prof. Onli the space and place to percolate the eventual birth of the growing Black Age of Comics. Onli had founded "B.A.G.: The Black Arts Guild" in 1970 to facilitate the transition from talented art student into lifelong professional artist to fill the void in not only the Black Arts Movement but also the curriculum in art schools in that era.  B.A.M was committed to protest images and narratives about selected approved historical moments and personalities.  While art schools were detached from career and commerce opportunities.  

Both shared the view of one wanting to become a career earning professional artist as being some type of "sell out" or "less than real" artist. 

Prof. Turtel Onli is a rare example of an artist who came of age amidst the opulence of the Black age Movement who is still extremely active today. As evident in his prolifitc Rhythmistic Future-Primitif artistic practices and the launch and continued advocacy or the Black Age of Comics as an open genre of creativity, culture and commerce. 

Onli directed B.A.G. until 1978 and founded the Black Age of Comics in 1993.

"The blacker the berry,,,,,the sweeter the juice!"  

We think of Black as a flavor. 

Like Thai, Italian or other fine world cuisines.

 The more indie Black Age products you buy, share and gift the better we become in meeting your desire for the very best progressive Conventions, Graphic Novels & innovative Comic Books possible.  This is our bond. Our creed. Our essence!

You do not have to be Black to get your Black on!

We feature print products for a variety of reasons.  

This hybrid of the Visual and Literary Arts still has immense unexplored growth potential.  

You know this.

 

The mainstream knows this. 

And we offer this!

ONLI STUDIOS not only launched the growing indie Black Age of Comics in 1993 but has been a prolific consistent open indie publisher & producer since 1981. 

A solid professional operation that goes where the mainstream does not!

We bring the fun, fire & funk in comics as never before. New concepts. Better art.  

More interesting narratives.  Expanding universes.

Indie Black Age publishers are mostly banned in mainstream Comic Book Stores and indie Afrocentric Bookstores for being too creative and dangerous to the over controlling limits and predictable orthodoxy of the mainstream's market stranglehold on your choices and reading entertainment!  

They work to restrict the more creative indie world from the shelves!

Yet, Onli Studios has boldly led the charge for decades with its advocacy of the growing indie Black Age of Comics. A welcoming force that produces products and events that not only address your precious unmet needs but charts new territory for the real dynamic future of indie Graphic Novels, Comic Books and related industries.  

Buy from ONLI STUDIOSLLC online for free shipping in the USA, free oversized trading cards, with each book packed in archival plastic. All for the cover price.

Every indie collector needs a set of the awesome Rhythmistic Graphic Novels from 

"The Father of the Black Age", Prof. Turtel Onli.  

Available online via ONLI STUDIOS.

"Once you go Black you may never go back!!"

Mayor Rham Emanuel of Chicago salutes Prof. Onli 

for guiding the Black Age of Comics 

as a growing positive force of creativity, culture & commerce 

per its long association with the DuSable Museum of Black History.

"Indie today: Black Age Forever!" 

One book and one fan at a time!

ONLI STUDIOS published the 'zine Future Funk in the early 1980s. 

That was in the 20th Century!!!!

Funk will never die!

In 1982, long before the trending of "Afrofuturism" we, ONI STUDIOS published the forward ballistic moving z'ine, "Future Funk" to promote the creative arts with a serious indie flow.  

We did this, not due to the likes of George Clinton or Sun Ra.....but because of Rhythmism.  

We welcome the luv and impact of all things "Afrofuturistic".... but Future Funk and ONLI STUDIOS were always about putting the Future in The Funk.