2022 PRE-KWANZAA COURSE
“Black Age of Comics”
Friday & Saturday - 12 noon | register below
Turtel Onli | Visual Artist
A Chicago native, Turtel’s creative works covers a wide spectrum of genres; fine and visual arts, e.g. painting, drawing, Illustration, publishing, fashion, and multimedia production. A pioneer in the world of comics and graphic novel depicting black super heroes, Turtel is credited with the title of “Father of the Black Age of Comics”. He is also noted for his stylization of fusing primitive and futuristic concepts which he coined, “Rhythmism.” For his works in comic and graphic novels Turtel received the “Glyth Comics Pioneer Award” in 2006.