We plan to start offering for sell our vintage Black Age related products. Hard to find, Mint Condition and other rare items will be offered here in connection with Ebay. Or you can contact us directly via our Contact Us Tab at www.onlistudios.com.

"NOG The Protector of the Pyramides". 1981. Good Condition. This is the indie Graphic Novel the opened the door to the growing Black Age of Comics genre/movement. Long before the trending of Afrofuturism and the diversity we enjoy in the current comic book industry. 

(Onli uses the French spelling of Pramides as an homage to his late mentor Moebius and the French Bande-Dessinee explosion of the 1970s that gave us Heavy Metal Magazine, plus Tron, and Fifth Element movies.)

The first book published by ONLI STUDIOS during the classic "Black & White" Boom of the 1980s that included the likes of Teen-Aged Ninja Mutant Turtles and much more.

Its original content was reprinted in 2021 in the New Your Best-Selling Graphic Novels listed, "Its Life How I See it"!. 

Original art from NOG was featured mural-sized on the outer wall of the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2021 for its blockbuster group exhibition, "CHICAGO COMICS"! 

NOG is pure innovative groundbreaking Rhythmism:Future-Primitif predating that trending of Afrofuturism in design, content, and flow. Making it historic in Art Terms along as the coming expansion of the comics; industry. 

Low original one-time press run of 3,000. A rare find!

This is a fantastic addition to any serious collection!

PRICE: $500.00. Ships insured, in archival secure packing per USPS. With our Certificate of Authenticity. (This price / value is expected to rise.)

 This is the Rhythmistic: Future-Primitif movie-in-a-book you have been waiting for!

The most important Graphic Novel in the growing indie Black Age of Comics movement has finally dropped. Exclusively via ONLI STUDIOS. Order online at the ONLI STUDIOS website.

 Via the Graphic Novels tab & Pay Pal.

 "The War For Planet NUBA!" Rhythmistic visuals and content at its best!

Ships free in the USA. Comes packed in archival plastic along with free limited-edition Trading-Cards.

We show the luv for your participation in the best of indie Graphic Novels and more!

 Decades in the making! 

The awesome limited-edition Graphic Novel series like none other, featuring the Rhythmistic: Future-Primitif Hero, like no other, NOG: The Nubian of Greatness and Protector of the Pyramides.  "The War For Planet NUBA!"

 Published by ONLI STUDIOS! Introduced and created by Prof. Turtel Onli in 1979, long before the trending of "Afrofuturism" or "Black Lives Matters"! NOG is vital to the protection of a Black Planet instead of hiding a small nation or dealing with the persistence of oppression. 

NOG opened the door to the growing, open, forward thinking, and inclusive Black Age of Comics genre where one does not have to be Black to get ones' Black Age on!  

NOG is definitely not a tribute to slavery or injustice.  NOG is not about the seductiveness of racial or generational re-traumatization. 

NOG is the brilliance of Rhythmistic fantasy & sci-fi that goes beyond the limited orthodoxy of the mainstream. 

NOG is not perfect, but NOG is perfect for you!

Place your orders via www.onlistudios.com per our Graphic Novels Tab. Free shipping int he USA.  It comes sealed in archival plastic with our over-sized limited edition Trading Cards. 

All in appreciation for your luv and participation in the Rhythmistic Indie Evolution!

Production clip of NOG by Johnathan Ford, ONLI STUDIOS associate, from the Rhythmic-Zone! LInk below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15tQ1As3jwHDaZMAdkXOgexrhTC12vbGN/view?pli=1

 

  https://libguides.sdsu.edu/comicsbytopic/afrofuturism

The above is a link to the Afrofuturist Comics Collection at the San Diego State University Library.  A tremendous resource.

This link is to an ever-cool time-lapse video of Prof. Onli painting a Rhythmistic treatment of NOG at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Noted cartoonist like Chris Ware were overwhelmed in watching Onli do his Rhythmistic thing live, to the music of The Coltranes. (As in Alice & John Coltrane.)

LINK

Live in the Commons gallery at the MCA, Chicago.

 "NOG" is so much the long running manifestation of ONLI STUDIOS LLC's approach and innovations in this dynamic industry!

Collaboration & Anthologies

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