THE TRILOGY EXPERIENCE: Building Displays

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Sun May 22, 2005 22:25 -0700

I just got around to adding this to my Stan Sakai Collection list...

KRAUSE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE - issue: 1291 (page 75)
August 14, 1998

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:13 -0700

That was done in Mark Crilley's Tour book, a personal sketchbook he carried around to write or draw impressions or ideas as we traveled. Everyone in the group contributed to his book as well. That particular sequence was in reference to the carving of our props. Charles Vess had arranged for these huge 8 foot blocks of styrofoam, and we carved our boulders, and decorations out of them. My Usagi statue took about a day and a half to carve with an electric saw and carving knife. Mark came along, and whipped up a couple of sculptures in half a day.

I wish I had kept a diary during those days. The Trilogy Tour was the hardest, most fun year I had doing comics. The friendships we built and the things we had to go through was unforgettable--like having to build 8 huge crates to ship everything around the country or a wild eyed Jill Thompson, hammer in hand, screaming her head off at two in the morning in a warehouse in Virginia or a newly wed Mark Crilley losing his wedding ring and frantically tearing apart drains and looking under floorboards only to find it safely on the night table in his hotel room. Jeff Smith took us on a personal tour of Old Man's Cave near Columbus, Ohio. Charles invited us to an Appalacian barbecue with story tellers and masses of fireflies. That was a magical night. Linda Medley, that sweet little pixie, I haven't seen her in years now. I'm sorry we never went ahead with our Trilogy 3 plans or our Trilogy Europe tour, but we could never come close to matching our T-2 experiences.

Those exhibits took us 9 hours to set up, and another 9 to tear down. That, I do not miss.