afrofuturism - Photos - Blacksciencefictionsociety2024-03-29T08:03:12Zhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/feed/tag/afrofuturismOnli presenting Onli pasthttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/onli-prsenting2023-09-28T23:54:09.000Z2023-09-28T23:54:09.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12234332464?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Me seeing where I was when a was too far out for the mianstream and struggling to gian support in the Black Cultural Revolution of the 1960s & 70s. Looking at a book, now currently on the NY TImes Grpahic Novels Best Seller List, including my first published Rhythmistic Future-Primitif book. character. Decades before the trending of Afrofuturism.</p></div>Black Comic sectionshttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/ad-copy-12023-05-28T13:46:56.000Z2023-05-28T13:46:56.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11151616468?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p style="text-align:center;">Where do you go tosee and beexposed to a rack or section in a Afrocentered, Indie, or progressive comic book store? <strong>Hmm?</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong> Like no where!</strong> </p><p style="text-align:center;">They refuse to stock products in a section dedicated to the awesome killa products coming from various indie Black owned operations. </p><p style="text-align:center;">Then most fo those Black owned operations will not band to change thisinstitutional brick & mortar store boycott. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>It is hard to appraciate or buy wheat you never see or experience</strong>.</p></div>Malcom-10 Splash pghttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/malcom-10-splash-pg2023-05-28T13:39:54.000Z2023-05-28T13:39:54.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11151614876?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>ONLI STUDIOS published Malcolm-10 in 1992. This introduced his dope Rhythmistic urban look to the entire industry. This was done when Blade lamely had a cyrly Afro or a cute ponytail. Then Bam! Blade hits the movie world looking a lot like Malcolm-10. Lawyers agreed on the infringement aspects of this howeverthey wanted a retainer of over $150,000.00 to take the case. </p><p>The mainstream doesn't rip or or steal lightly. Onli's character had and still has amazing growth potential. <a href="http://www.onlistudios.com">www.onlistudios.com</a></p></div>Future-Funk Nu Look!https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/future-funknulook2023-05-28T13:04:44.000Z2023-05-28T13:04:44.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11151598066?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The long running 'zine <strong>Future-Funk</strong> from ONLI STUDIOS is featuring the killa "Nu Look" rebootz from Johnathan Ford of the central Rhythmic-Zone chracters from ONLI STUDIOS. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>This bomb issue drops in the Summer of 2023. </strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Future-Funk was first published in 1982</strong>.</p><p>Fans, Collectors, serious novices and investor will appreciate the continued expansion and excellence that ONLI STUDIOS has always manifested. </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>"Indie today: Black Age Forever"! </strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>We go beyond the limited orthodoxy of the exploitative mainstream!</strong></p></div>Year of the Panther 69https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/year-of-the-panther-692022-12-06T19:50:54.000Z2022-12-06T19:50:54.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10902700268?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I was one of the last folks to see the real Freb Hampton alive. That was the evening before his was murdered. Assasinated. Hunted! Betrayed. Silenced?</p><p>Alunta Continua! Indie today: Black Age Forever!</p><p> </p><p>What$ In you' Collection?</p></div>This is war!!!!!https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/me-hulking12022-05-30T13:01:44.000Z2022-05-30T13:01:44.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10525137088?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Our's is a war for minds & market shares! Rhythmistic creativity, culture and commerce!</p><p><a href="http://www.onlistudios.com" target="_blank">ONLI STUDIOS</a> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10525138459,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10525138459,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="444" alt="10525138459?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p></div>East / West Zodiachttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/ad3e2022-04-26T10:49:54.000Z2022-04-26T10:49:54.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10440520459?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>A Rhythmistic treatment from our best-selling Rhythmistic journal that compares & contrasts the two major Horescope systems. First published by ONLI STUDIODS in 2019.............<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10440523096,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10440523096,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="495" alt="10440523096?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p></div>NOG MCA Limited edition....."Tales From The RHythmic Zone"! from ONLI STUDIOS LLChttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/nog-mca-limited-edition2021-12-25T14:00:36.000Z2021-12-25T14:00:36.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9944589667?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><strong>Spring / Summer / Fall 2021 saw landmark exhibitions in Chicago.</strong></p><p>The Bisa Butler'quilts along with the Obama Presidential Portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago. Plus the blockbuster group show, "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now" curated by Dan Nadel....feauring an iconic image of <em><strong>"NOG: The Nubian of Greatness"</strong></em> created and publsied by ONLI STUDIOS / Turtel Onli in 1980, mural sized on the outer wall of the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This is what artistic and creative progress looks like in real time.</p><p>Now for true fans, intelligent scholars and serious collectors to step up for the creativity, culture & commerce they deserve!!!.</p><p><strong> Value matters beyond the limits and control of the mianstream.</strong></p></div>Watch Out!!!!https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/virtual-self1x2021-12-25T13:47:21.000Z2021-12-25T13:47:21.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9944583701?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><strong>ONLI STUDIOS LLC was publsihing 'zines in the early 1980s</strong>. Doing album covers in the early 1970s. Publishing indie Graphic Novels and working the mianstream before it decided to expand the entire industry by creating the Black Age of Comcis with world's first boldly innovative Black Age of Comics Convention in Chicaog, in 1993. </p><p style="text-align:center;">History is what really happended. Visit <a href="http://www.onlistudios.com" target="_blank">ONLI STUDIOS LLC</a></p><p><strong> Prof. Onli often asks, : "How Black was this industry before the launch of the Black Age in 1993?"</strong></p></div>Campaign ONLI STUDIOS LLChttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/campaignonli1x-22021-12-25T13:37:17.000Z2021-12-25T13:37:17.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9944582078?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>ONLI STUDIOS LLC has been an indie publisher, advocate and production studio since 1981. Vintage and proven with a lot of Fun, Fire, Funk and Flow to offer those who want more than the limits of the mainstream!</p></div>Bisa Butler at the Art Institute of Chicagohttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/bisa-12021-12-25T13:32:02.000Z2021-12-25T13:32:02.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9944578896?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Prof. Onli sporting his limited edition Rhythmism chic at the Bisa Butler solo exhibition Summer 2021 at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago.</p></div>Rhythmique Xhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/rhythmiquex2021-10-06T12:04:32.000Z2021-10-06T12:04:32.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9650717493?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>When a Black , openly Hetero-Man named the flow, genre & movement in the early 1970s, folks ran from it or pretended it didn't happen. But in the 1990s when a White Man names the flow and attachs it to a legacy of White oppression folks flock to it.</p></div>NOG Showtime! The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicagohttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/nog-showtime2021-05-19T12:07:16.000Z2021-05-19T12:07:16.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8945124868?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This Summer & Fall 2021 in Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art is featuring a major group exhibition: "Chicago Comics: 1960 until Now!'.<a href="https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2021/Chicago-Comics-1960s-To-Now" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><p><em><strong>"NOG The Protector of the Pyramides"</strong></em> created in 1978 by Rhythmistic Artists/Publisher Turtel Onli is featured in the exhibtion and outisde in a mural sized incredibel display.</p><p><strong>Putting haters in total check!!!! </strong> Honor and tribute to the impact Onli's work has had in expanding the ocmics related industries to celebrate styles adn content derived from the Black, African, Urban and ALternaitve experiences. </p><p>Both Rhythmism with its Future-Primitif pathways and the growing Black Age of Comics were poineered by Turtel Onli and <a href="http://www.onlistudios.com" target="_blank">ONLI STUDIOS</a>.</p></div>Black_Panther-05https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/black-panther-052021-04-15T11:14:23.000Z2021-04-15T11:14:23.000ZKim McMillonhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/KimMcMillon754<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8797722300?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p> </p><p>Get ready to be enlightened on all things Wakanda! Emory University will present a virtual panel discussion on the recently published <em>Black Panther Tales of Wakanda</em> anthology edited by Jesse J. Holland and published by Titan Books. The event will take place virtually on Friday, April 30 at 3 pm (PST), 4 pm (MT), 5 pm (CST), and 6 pm (EST). This program is being moderated by Dr. Clinton Fluker, the Curator of Emory University’s African American Collections. Dr. R. Candy Tate, the Assistant Director of Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts, will host the discussion.</p><p>The panel will showcase authors Dr. Glenn Parris, Milton Davis, Kyoko M., and Linda Addison, the first African-American recipient of the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award®.</p><div>To register, please use this</div><div>link: <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://BIT.LY/39UU463?fbclid=IwAR0R2icCbD-6xUw_UVdI2rmArORyD-6RgCqbmrYItwIN11uRoCk-wbsDCH8" target="_blank">BIT.LY/39UU463</a>. You can also use your cell phone and click on the register icon on the flyer. The program may also be viewed on Facebook Live on Friday, April 30, 2021 at 6 pm (EST)</div><p> </p><p>For more information about this event, please contact Kim McMillon at (510) 681-5652 or email kimmac@pacbell.net.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>BLACK PANTHER: TALES OF WAKANDA</em></strong><strong> [Titan Books]</strong> <strong>edited by JESSE J. HOLLAND</strong></p><p><strong>9781789095678 | March 9, 2021 | Hardback | $25.95/£17.99 | 480pp</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p></div>SCAD flyer-1 jpeghttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/scad-flyer-1-jpeg2021-03-30T15:24:05.000Z2021-03-30T15:24:05.000ZKim McMillonhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/KimMcMillon754<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8733080056?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><strong>SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film</strong></p><p><strong>Presents a Virtual Panel Discussion with</strong></p><p><strong>authors from the </strong></p><p><strong>BLACK PANTHER: TALES OF WAKANDA ANTHOLOGY</strong></p><p><strong>Thursday, April 1, 6 PM (EST)</strong></p><p><strong>FREE TO THE PUBLIC</strong></p><p>(Atlanta, Georgia), March 19, 2021 --- SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta, Georgia presents a Panel Discussion with authors from the </p><p>BLACK PANTHER: TALES OF WAKANDA ANTHOLOGY edited by Jesse J. Holland and published by Titan Books.<strong> </strong>The event will take place virtually on Thursday, April 1, at 3 pm (PST), 4 pm (MT), 5 pm (CST), and 6 pm (EST). SCAD creative writing professor Darby Sanders will moderate the panel discussion.</p><p>Award-winning authors Jesse J. Holland, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Glenn Parris — whose work is featured in the new anthology <em>Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda</em>, published by Titan Books and Marvel — share insight on science fiction, fantasy, Afrofuturism, and the enduring power of Wakanda. The panel discussion is presented on the occasion of the exhibition <em>Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design</em>, on view at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film through Sept. 12, 2021.</p><p>To register in advance for this free event, please go to <a href="https://cutt.ly/bz1Lcey">https://cutt.ly/bz1Lcey</a>. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.</p><p><strong><u>About the Authors:</u></strong></p><p><strong>Jesse J. Holland</strong> is the author of <em>The Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther? </em>prose novel, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2019. He is also the author of <em>The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves Inside the White House</em>, which was named as the 2017 silver medal award winner in U.S. History in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and one of the top history books of 2016 by Smithsonian.com. Jesse is also the author of the <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Finn's Story</em> young adult novel, the nonfiction book <em>Black Men Built The Capitol: Discovering African American History in and Around Washington, D.C.</em>, and is one of the co-creators of the late, lamented comic strip, <em>Hippie and the Black Guy</em>.<em> </em>He is currently the Saturday host for C-SPAN <em>Washington Journal </em>as well as an assistant professor of Media & Public Affairs at The George Washington University. He is a former Race & Ethnicity writer for The Associated Press, as well as a former White House, Supreme Court, and Congressional reporter. Jesse was awarded a doctorate of humane letters from Lemoyne-Owen College in 2018. You can see more at his website, <a href="http://www.jessejholland.com">www.jessejholland.com</a><u>.</u></p><p><strong>Glenn Parris</strong> is an author who works across genres, including medical mystery, Afrofuturistic science fiction, and historical fiction. <em>The Renaissance of Aspirin</em>, his debut novel, which garnered rave reviews, and paranormal fantasy, <em>Unbitten: A Vampire Dream</em>, have been adapted to screenplays. His short story, "The Tooth Fairies, Quest for Tearhaven," heads up the anthology <em>Where the Veil is Thin</em>. A self-described sci- nerd, he brings his perspective as a physician to his work. Parris' speculative science fiction novel, <em>Dragon's Heir, The Archeologist's Tale</em>, an allegory of culture, caste, and imperialism, is scheduled for publication by Outland Entertainment this spring. As a board certified rheumatologist, Parris has practiced medicine in the Atlanta area for over thirty years. Check out his website at <a href="http://www.glennparris.com">www.glennparris.com</a>.</p><p><strong>Sheree Renée Thomas</strong> is the author of <em>Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future</em> (Third Man Books, 2020) and is the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning editor of the landmark Black speculative fiction anthologies, <em>Dark Matter</em>. She is the Editor of <em>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</em>, founded in 1949, and the Associate Editor of <em>Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora</em>, founded in 1975. Sheree co-edited <em>Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue</em> (forthcoming in 2021 from Third Man Books) and is a co-curator of Curating the End of the World: Red Spring on Google's Culture Institute platform. Thomas is honored to guest edit <em>Heirloom: Preserving HBCU Futures</em>, a special volume of Obsidian scheduled for Fall 2021, and is at work on other exciting projects to be announced. <a href="http://www.shereereneethomas.com">www.shereereneethomas.com</a></p><p> </p></div>Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective III: The Case of the Vanishing Childhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/mona-iii-redone2021-02-10T20:34:29.000Z2021-02-10T20:34:29.000ZValjeanne Jeffershttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ValjeanneJeffers<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8540496873?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The threads of a blood chilling mystery … A world torn in half. A young black man desperate to avenge his murdered brethren. A white supremacist with the terrifying power to alter reality. And a little girl trapped in the eye of the storm. Detective Mona Livelong takes on her most dangerous case yet, as she races to save the life of an innocent child, and countless others hanging in the balance. <a href="http://www.vjeffersandqveal.com" target="_blank">www.vjeffersandqveal.com</a></p><p>At: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mona-Livelong-Paranormal-Detective-Vanishing/dp/B08TZK8SXD" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p><p>and <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1062769" target="_blank">Smashwords</a></p><p> </p></div>"Black Age Sankofa"https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/blkagexxivx-12021-02-01T18:52:18.000Z2021-02-01T18:52:18.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8503236877?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><div style="width:522px;"><div id="ctrl-30104215" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;">"BLACK AGE XXIV"<br /></span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104217" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;">Feb. 22nd - 28th 2021<br /></span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104219" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;"> </span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104221" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-size:large;">"Black Age Sankofa"</span></span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104222" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;"> </span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104224" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;">"Reaching back to experiences and knowledge,<br /></span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104226" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;">bringing them into the present in order to manifest<br /></span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104228" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;">positive practices and progress!"<br /></span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104230"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';font-size:medium;"> </span></em></div><div id="ctrl-30104232"><span style="font-size:large;"><em><span style="font-family:'arial black';"> </span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104234" align="center"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:large;">Virtual Black Age of Comics Convention<br /></span></span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104236" align="center"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:large;">Chicago IL. USA</span><br /></span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104238"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104240"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">Featuring :<br /></span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104242"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104244"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">1. Historic Video Hub<br /></span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104246"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">2. Hype Slide Show</span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104247"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">3. Tribute<br /></span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104249"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">4. Educational Supports<br /></span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104251"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">5. Market Place</span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104252"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></em></span></div><div id="ctrl-30104254"><span style="font-family:'arial black';"><em><span style="font-size:medium;">( Modest access fees for your positive participation, connection and ownership will be announced in the near future after our plans are definitive.</span></em></span></div></div></div>Sun Ra Trading Cardhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/sun-ra-trading-card2021-01-08T14:58:32.000Z2021-01-08T14:58:32.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8402532656?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Tho' I created or named the future-primitif style "Rhythmism" in the early 1970s folks luv to assert I was influenced by Sun Ra. <strong>Not at all the case!</strong> My groove was in over-drive long before I heard anything about Sun Ra. Plus I thought his music, wearing TV antennaes and aluminum foil and wires along with his claims of being from Saturn were super-lame. </p><p>Later in the 1990s or so, when a non Black White man comes up with a term to cover a similar style, "Afrofuturism", it becomes the rage.</p><p><strong> So was his name Kunta Kente or was it Toby?</strong></p><p>HMMMMM? Where is the Kwnazaa in that? I was commisioned by the indie "Roctober" 'zine do a Sun Ra image that is now a trending as a trading card.</p><p><strong>I sitll stand for Rhythmism!</strong> Being a major market kick ass illustrator......... I am still for hire. So here it is. </p><p>But remember,<strong> "Rhythmism Lives!"</strong></p></div>Father of the Black Agehttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/941941-10151340837212315-1446261679-n2020-12-02T13:55:07.000Z2020-12-02T13:55:07.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8240497896?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Prof. Onli, AKA "The Father of the Black Age, kicking it iwth an ever-cool Alien who wanted to acquire the secrets of Onli's funk and Rhythmistic flow. ONLI STUDIOS LLC was the founder of indie Black Age of Comics themed conventions in 1993. This force now sees events in all major American markets along iwth a few in Africa.</p><p>Onli has created the most independent concepts and chracters in the Black Age with his awesome Rhythmistic practices. However he is down with all of the emerging trendy works in 'Afrofuturism and such. Revolutions need numbers. <strong>Indie today: Black Age Forever!</strong></p></div>Black Age of C0mics Founder 1994https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/20yearsx-22020-12-02T13:39:39.000Z2020-12-02T13:39:39.000ZTurtel Onlihttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/TurtelOnli<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8240468494?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=360"></div><div><p>In February 1993 Prof. Turtel Onli boldly, with his own money and funk,....coined the term "Black Age of Comics" as a movement & genre to celbrate and promote creators, concepts and content derived from the Black, African, Urban and Indie experience. Solid with Black Hisotry Month. </p><p>In tune with the legacy of the historic South Side OCmmunity Art Center in the Bronzeville Distirct of Chicago. Harmonizing iwth each Principle of Kwanzaa as open sources and opulent.</p><p>Prof. Onli often askes the question: "How Black was this industry before that powerful launch of the Black Age in 1993?"</p></div>Cosmic stormhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/cosmic-storm2020-08-19T19:15:01.000Z2020-08-19T19:15:01.000ZValjeanne Jeffershttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ValjeanneJeffers<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7530424097?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Our Bloodline Has Returned ... Queen your essence, the frequency of your electrical powers, charges me up when it’s the perfect moment to intercourse the canal to your inner core—to the path that leads to your very soul. Heavenly stars begin to fall, even the moon turns blood red ...<br /> <br /> Poet and artist Quinton Veal has returned and he's bringing the fire! Cosmic Storm is a delicious medley of erotica, Afrofuturism and romance, guaranteed to satisfy the reader's mind, body and soul. Get swept up in Quinton's Cosmic Storm.</p><p>Available at: <a href="http://www.vjeffersandqveal.com" target="_blank">www.vjeffersandqveal.com</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cosmic-storm-quinton-veal/1137368509" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a></p><p><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1033143" target="_blank">Smashwords</a></p></div>Chosen Realities: Summer 2020https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/photo/ebook-covera2020-07-25T16:57:36.000Z2020-07-25T16:57:36.000ZStafford Battlehttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/StaffordBattle<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7139284498?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction (DWASF) has published its first Journal featuring creators who specialize in AFROFuturism. The stories, poems, screenplays, interviews, art, and commentary offer unique as well as provocative visions of the diversity of our global society inspired during this Coronavirus 19 epoch. Fantasy, horror, sci-fi that have helped to shape, encourage, and fortify the Black community for centuries are explored in this speculative fiction Journal.</p><p>AFROFuturism is a unifying force for all people of color as well as a conduit for anyone interested in gaining an insight into the “other”.</p><p>Available on Amazon at:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CN4L2KW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B08CN4L2KW&linkCode=as2&tag=sbattle100-20&linkId=c87ec3da7afff63968231c19983fb084" target="_blank">Chosen Realities: Summer 2020</a><img style="border:none;margin:0px;" src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=sbattle100-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B08CN4L2KW" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></p></div>