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egypturnashPhone call this morning.
From the moving company.
It turns out that my stuff was probably in a warehouse that was completely trashed. There is a small chance, but honestly, if it got wet... it's books. It's books. It's pretty much nothing but books in there. Some furniture, two boxes of CDs that're mostly on my hard drive in my bag anyway (frozen as lossy MP3s and AACs). Clothes I mostly don't wear' cause they're old boy stuff. The bug-girl costume. A few boxes of miscellaneous toys and detritus. My computer. But mostly books.
Mostly mass-market paperback stuff, about 20-30% I was probably going to gleefully dispose of once it got here. But... My shalf-complete run of Post Bros. and Savage Henry*. A hardback copy of the Steadman Alice**. Little Nemo collections - the Fantagraphics tomes with the whole run, the near-tabloid-sized Nostalgia Press volume that introduced me to it. The battered copy of Mice and Magic that was a seed of my fascination with animation. The World of the Dark Crystal. All three Amphigoreys***. Books I haven't thought of yet that I read time and time again because they were just fun.
ten years of sketchbooks. images i wanted to scan and finish someday. stuff i never posted because i liked it but it was too half-baked or a fragment of something i wasn't ready to show, so there isn't even a screen-res scan.
gone to mold after all.
We don't know FOR SURE yet but it sounds like they're pretty sure my stuff is fucked. Minor default insurance: about $1200 per container. I could put that with what I'm not spending on shipping after all and buy a nice new laptop if I want to. I can never replace those sketchbooks.
* $300 direct from Matt for all of PB, haven't counted up SH. Of course the out-of-print issues are ones I had.
** $50-80 on Amazon for used copies of the complete edition. is the recent paperback reprint just Wonderland, or also Looking-glass and Snark?
*** amazon reveals there's a fourth posthumous one on the way
From the moving company.
It turns out that my stuff was probably in a warehouse that was completely trashed. There is a small chance, but honestly, if it got wet... it's books. It's books. It's pretty much nothing but books in there. Some furniture, two boxes of CDs that're mostly on my hard drive in my bag anyway (frozen as lossy MP3s and AACs). Clothes I mostly don't wear' cause they're old boy stuff. The bug-girl costume. A few boxes of miscellaneous toys and detritus. My computer. But mostly books.
Mostly mass-market paperback stuff, about 20-30% I was probably going to gleefully dispose of once it got here. But... My shalf-complete run of Post Bros. and Savage Henry*. A hardback copy of the Steadman Alice**. Little Nemo collections - the Fantagraphics tomes with the whole run, the near-tabloid-sized Nostalgia Press volume that introduced me to it. The battered copy of Mice and Magic that was a seed of my fascination with animation. The World of the Dark Crystal. All three Amphigoreys***. Books I haven't thought of yet that I read time and time again because they were just fun.
ten years of sketchbooks. images i wanted to scan and finish someday. stuff i never posted because i liked it but it was too half-baked or a fragment of something i wasn't ready to show, so there isn't even a screen-res scan.
gone to mold after all.
We don't know FOR SURE yet but it sounds like they're pretty sure my stuff is fucked. Minor default insurance: about $1200 per container. I could put that with what I'm not spending on shipping after all and buy a nice new laptop if I want to. I can never replace those sketchbooks.
* $300 direct from Matt for all of PB, haven't counted up SH. Of course the out-of-print issues are ones I had.
** $50-80 on Amazon for used copies of the complete edition. is the recent paperback reprint just Wonderland, or also Looking-glass and Snark?
*** amazon reveals there's a fourth posthumous one on the way