Come out, meet and talk to William Stout, illustrator, underground cartoonist, movie poster and album cover artist, visual development artist, production designer, muralist, paleo-artist, wildlife painter, and Antarctic explorer!  

Bill’s new full color collection of fantasy illustrations Hallucinations debuted at Comic-Con and the hardcover edition, limited to 500 copies, is already sold out.  We have the paperback edition as well as the last hardcover copies from the publisher. 

William Stout. HALLUCINATIONS - SIGNED & NUMBERED HARDCOVER EDITION. [SN28516X] $30

Santa Cruz: Flesk, 2010. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 48 pages, 50 color illustrations, hardcover cloth. VF/VF.

William Stout. HALLUCINATIONS - PAPERBACK EDITION. [SN28517X] $20

Bill will be at our showroom Saturday, August 28, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, to sign and draw in Hallucinations. 

If you can’t make it to the signing in person, you can pre-order the book and we will ship it to you after the signing.

SEPTEMBER 18 BOOK SIGNING
WITH SEAN “CHEEKS” GALLOWAY AND RYAN BENJAMIN

Meet and talk to these two artists who work in comics, character design, and visual development.

Sean and Ryan will be at our showroom Saturday, September 18, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, to sign and draw in their books.  Sean will do a head sketch of the character of your choice (if it is not a character he normally draws, you should supply reference).

Sean Galloway. CHEEKS: FRESHLY SQUEEZED. [SN29096X] $30

2010. 1st. Oblong small 4to (9-11"), 100 pages, color illustrations, hardcover pictorial boards. VF.

A new collection from this character designer (Spectacular Spider-Man, Hellboy Animated) and comics artist (Wednesday Comics). With over 60 pages of never-before-seen content: new characters, more sequentials, polished up and rough pieces, a deeper peek into Bastion's 7 as well as peeks at several new concepts created by Sean.

Ryan Benjamin. PANCRATIA: THE ART OF RYAN BENJAMIN 2010. [SN29305X] $25

2010. 1st. Oblong small 4to (9-11"), 92pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Pancratia Episodes 3 and 4 ("Its a huge car chase with tons of fight action from start to finish.") and behind-the-scenes art, character designs, and other artwork. Ryan is a comic book artist (Marvel, DC, and Wildstorm) and concept artist for Sony.

If you can’t make it to the signing in person, you can pre-order either book and we will ship it to you after the signing.   

We have moved to a bigger, better showroom!

Visit us Saturdays, from 12 noon until 5pm
and Monday - Friday, from 11am until 3pm
at our NEW LOCATION:

Dean Yeagle stopped by our Showroom on Saturday January 23rd, 2010,
and signed copies of his new Comix Buro sketchbook, as well his Mandy books:

Stuart Ng Books exhibited at the CTN Animation Expo in November, 2009:

Peter de Sève at CTNX

Peter de Sève. A SKETCHY PAST: THE ART OF PETER DE SÈVE. [SN26825X] $55

This is the career retrospective book on this fantastic illustrator and designer. It is the book we've all been waiting for: a large format coffee table art book in full color on a heavy mat stock. With a brief text by Amid Amidi. And a Foreword by Chris Wedge (Ice Age).

In this exquisite monograph, world-renowned illustrator and character designer Peter de Sève shows his favorite published and unpublished works. Inventive, eccentric, and often irreverent, they represent a lifetime of drawing . . . a very sketchy past.

Peter de Sève is one of America’s foremost contemporary American illustrators. Beginning his career as an editorial illustrator in the early eighties, de Sève has gone on to create artwork that has graced the covers and interiors of countless major publications, books, and posters. He has also played an influential role in the design of numerous animated feature films, including the blockbuster Ice Age series. The imagery that springs from his pen marries colorful personalities with expert storytelling, and wild flights of imagination with a masterly drawing technique that harkens back to a bygone era of impeccable draftsmanship and craft. Copiously illustrated with hundreds of paintings and drawings, including never-before-published New Yorker cover roughs, behind-the-scenes animation development artwork, and personal sketches, A Sketchy Past is the first comprehensive survey of de Sève’s work. A career-spanning biographical essay written by historian Amid Amidi, along with comments from de Sève throughout the book, offer a unique insight into his approach to illustration and his artistic process.

"Peter’s characters are believable, original, and always appealing. Even his “bad guys” are appealing. Be it a grasshopper, a pelican, or an angler fish, Peter takes something you think you know and gives it to you in a way that you’ve never seen it before."—John Lasseter, chief creative officer, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios

"It may sound overly simplistic, but Peter can just draw! His style is based on an ability to draw without any tricks or fancy techniques. It’s the type of thing that drives comic book and animation artists crazy."—Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy

A Sketchy Past was recently featured in The New York Times Sunday Book Review:

"Peter de Sève is much better known than kamishibai artists, but he does the same job of telling stories. His numerous covers for The New Yorker tell ironic tales of the city. “Panhandler,” a fanciful drawing of the mythical half man, half goat Pan playing his proverbial pipes on a New York street corner, is as farcical as it is evocative of the real talents who busk for loose change. De Sève’s “Through the Wringer,” showing a flabby naked man walking through an airport metal detector (ignored by all the passers-by), captures the way many people actually feel when going through the ordeal. These and many more illustrations are collected in a gorgeously designed coffee-table book, A SKETCHY PAST: The Art of Peter de Sève (Akileos, $54.95).

"The sketches implied in the title are probably the best part. De Sève’s finished pieces are very fluid and impressionistic while totally representational, with hints of caricature at every turn. But his looser sketches are the real masterpieces of visual erudition. He depicts character and expression so completely with only a few well-composed lines and shades. And among the most delightful, in a book that will doubtless serve as a textbook for today’s aspiring artists, are production sketches for the animated “Ice Age” films, for which he designed the amazing characters (under the supervision of the director Chris Wedge, who wrote the book’s foreword). Although de Sève is certainly a people person, drawingwise, I haven’t seen such a master with animals since John James Audubon — if Audubon had done caricatures of prehistoric creatures, that is." - Steven Heller

Each copy of A Sketchy Past comes with a signed bookplate, designed exclusively for Stuart Ng Books:

Paris: Akileos, 2009. 1st edition. 12 ½" x 11" x 1", 240 pages, color and black & white illustrations, hardcover pictorial boards. VF book/VF dust-jacket. Weight almost 5 lbs.

Eric Goldberg at CTNX

Andreas Deja at CTNX

William Stout in the Stuart Ng Books showroom on April 18th, in Torrance, California.

Each customer could request a picture of his or her favorite dinosaur for Mr. Stout to draw.

Just one example of William Stout's fantastic art, as drawn for one of our customers.

Stuart Ng Books 20655 S. Western Ave., Suite 104, Torrance, CA 90501
phone: (310) 909-1929

Store Hours: Monday through Friday, 11am until 3pm; Saturday, 12 noon until 5pm.
Closed Sundays and Holidays.