"Future-Funk"....the iconic Rhythmistic 'zine was first published in 1982 and is still rolling. ONLI STUDIOS LLC is in production for the next version that will be about a deep dive into Rhythmism.

Readers, creators, fans, scholars and haters all will find some visual Funk in the future.

Drop date will be Summer 2022. Cutting, paving and flowing across two centuries of visual Funk!

Future-Funk was featured in the 2021 blockbuster exhibition "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now!" and distinguished not only the rare 'zine published by a Black owned operation but also one of the original true early indie 'zines.

 "Sasa: The New Face of Horror!" Rhythmistic movie release for only $2.00.  

Adapted from the hot, creepy, new horror tale that will keep you up at nights.

Uniquely Afrofuturistic & Rhythmistic!

Trending now! Produced by ONLI STUDIOS LLC.  

Directed & Created by Prof. Turtel Onli, the "Father of the Black Age of Comics" 

and the founder of the Rhythmistic visual arts genre.

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 In 1982, long before the trending of "Afrofuturism" we, ONLI STUDIOS published the forward ballistic moving z'ine, "Future Funk".  

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

We welcome the notion and impact of all things "Afrofuturistic"....but we were about putting the Future in The Funk.   

That was in the 20th Century!!!!

Why? Cause Funk will never die!

"No More Drugs!" Mural  Turtel Onli 1971

A youthful Turtel Onli was not able to complete this mural near the Cabrini Green Public Housing Project in Chicago, in 1971, because the Chicago Police confronted him about it. They voiced their negative opinions about its content and threatened to arrest the 19 year old Onli if he returned to complete it.   

When one look close at the stylizations Onli was using one sees to early percolations of his signature Rhythmistic Future-Primitif approach to the Visual Arts.  

Fortunately this and other Mural in Chicago are not archived and available per the Northwestern University, in Evanston IL.

 LINK TO IMAGE & CONTENT!

 The New York Times placed the landmark anthology, "It's Life As I See It!" on its Top 20 List of Graphic Novels for 2011.  

This book accompanied the blockbuster group exhibition that year, "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now!" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by Dan Nadel,  which featured on the outer wall of the Musuem a mural sized enlargement of Black Age of Comics founder, Turtel Onli's "NOG: The Protector of the Pyramides". 

 "NOG" is the first published Rhythmistic Future-Primitif character that opened the door to diversity and the growing Black Age of Comics when I was published in 1981.

LINK: NY Times Review

 Note: The entire first run of Turtel Onli's Rhythmistic character, "NOG: The Nubian of Greatness, Protector of the Pyramides" is included in this important book. 

Created in the late 1970s and published in 1981 by ONLI STUDIOS LLC. The reviewers omit that Onli is the sole indie publisher in the book and that his operation ONLI STUDIOS LLC is still in full effect. Consistently active since 1981. 

 The tendency is to sequester the work in the grave of the marginalized....or the tombs of the 'unfortunately overlooked".

 Nor is there any reference to the growing dynamic Black Age of Comics genre / movement. Fortunately you know better! Its still an honor to be included in this vital unique Graphic Novel that is one part history and one part now! Reaching out and presenting awesome high valued rare works to a more deserving audience. not limited to the narrow bias of its reviewers.

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