It happened again
all my ruined stuff
I was heading into work on Friday when I got a telephone call from Indigo Kelleigh, my studiomate. It seems that the roofers who were “fixing” the roof at our studio did an extremely shoddy job of covering the building before they left on Thursday (Wednesday? I’m not sure when they’d last done any work) and the rain of Thursday night and all day Friday had poured right on into the building.
I got in a few minutes later, and it was a disaster. Almost a total loss. About ten or so finished Jonny Crossbones pages (they’d all been scanned, thank goodness), a few commissions, some other illustration and comics work, and all my art supplies were completely waterlogged. Water got in under the laminate on my drafting table, so that needs to be replaced, too. I am extremely glad that I’d taken my Cintiq home for the week, so I could work on an illustration gig there because of the noise the roofers were making.
My bookshelf seems to have escaped mostly unscathed, so my reference and inspiration library is okay.
My housemate/studiomate/hetero lifemate Jon lost all of his art books, all his artwork, and his Cintiq was soaking wet but still seems to work for the time being.
Indigo lost a big box of minicomics he’s been collecting for the last fifteen or twenty years, some books, some art supplies, etc.
And BT Livermore lost a ton of artwork that was hanging on the wall, and a whole rack full of supplies, but was lucky enough that his own artwork was on a rack that escaped most of the damage.
Now we’ve got a couple of garages full of wet art stuff and nowhere to work. We’ve already started our search for a new location, so hopefully we’ll be back on track soon.
The most frustrating thing about this is that almost the exact same thing happened at the last location Jon, BT and I shared. Roof taken off without adequate covering, water-damaged studio. That was just a year and a half ago! At least that time we didn’t lose anything. We weren’t nearly so lucky this time.
Let’s just hope this trend does not continue in our next location.
all I could think was “f**k!f**k!f**k!f**k!f**k!, that sucks”.
If this keeps up you’ll be so paranoid that wherever you go you’ll keep everything in giant rubbermaid bins and cover the entire room with tarps every night.
Did you guys have renter’s insurance? Not that it would help with the artwork, though. I guess we’re back to “f**k!f**k!f**k!f**k!f**k!”
Actually, as long as you’ve sold your art in the past and can prove a relative value, insurance should pay out on that too.
Oh my god! That totally stinks!
That’s the kind of thing where, while insurance would be nice, what you really want is to be able to punch somebody in the face for screwing you over. But take a breath, count to ten, violence is not the answer.
Good luck finding a new, dry location!
holy crap, I had the same thing happen.
But instead of rain, it was an actual chunk of roof that came down in my office. The so-called roofing professional felt the need to walk on the ceiling sheet rock instead of the beams. Best part is, a crapload of sunflower seeds were scattered all over my trashed office floor and dirt covered amps etc. So the dumbass wasn’t even working when he did it…he was walking around eating sun seeds.
I have that same all-in-one unit too (it got covered in shit- but not ruined)
I feel your pain.
I saw someone talking about it on penciljack.com and then I found one on clearance at OfficeMax for $180. Not bad for a tabloid scanner!