Today is the 25th Anniversary Storewide Sale at Stuart Ng Books! I was fascinated by their booth at WonderCon, so the sale and temptation of the art book selection, brought me there today. The store is located in Torrance, 20655 S. Western Ave., it is but closed at this time. There is still time until midnight to get the discount at www.stuartngbooks.com! I have looked through the website, but always find it best to go through shelves and see what is interesting. There are many signed items including the latest The Art of Lightyear book. It is a wonderland of some art supplies, art books, references and techniques. Many artists visit the store from animation studios, comic books, and others! I saw autographed books, sketchbooks, and there are prints and posters.
A table had the latest book, I saw The Art of Haddon Sundblom, this is an good girl pin-up artist, mentor to Gil Elvgren, one of my favorite artists! He also created the image we know today of Santa Claus for The Coca-Cola Company! I found this out when I went to the former World of Coca-Cola in Las Vegas, now just a store. To its left is a turnstile of Golden Books an hardback books for kids. So many books of artists I’ve seen the artwork, Robert McGinnis, his covers can be seen with the Titan Comics issues of Gun Honey. If you are not familiar with the artists, it’s time to just check out books on them at Stuart Ng Books. This aisles continues with superhero books and then animation like Disney art books.
On the near wall, has tables of sketchbooks, artgerm, Terry Dodson, Adam Hughes, and Tula Lotay, plus paintings mounted on the wall. At the front of the middle aisle had Mythosaur pendants from The Mandalorian and Stephen Hickman’s Cthulhu statue. Then filled with European art books in their original language, French like Moebius and Milo Manara, Italian, and then continues with English translated comic book trades and artbooks. There are prints, fine books including artbooks and postcards of Eyvind Earle. Against the far wall is the rare art books with glass cabinets with statues, not the usual comic book statues, but I also saw the model of the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954). The owner showed me around the store, all of the employees are helpful, and the customers are all art lovers. This is items that are at all price levels. A must for anyone who like animation, movies, artists, sketchbooks, artbooks, and more!
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