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#8 –September 2019
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
The month of August was productive. While I was able to get another handful of illustrations done for my upcoming novel ‘The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain,’ I was also concurrently working on my ninth collection of comics entitled Yippee Ki-Yayenne Mother Pepper: Getting Saucy with the Goodbye Family, and got back to the prospects of doing a Goodbye Family short film. I will share as things progress. In August I was interviewed in NFReads and had a feature on Plapp, a new social network site.
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FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS
Rusty Potts: A lot of questions have been raised about the strange fellow rolling about town that is always telling dry jokes. Well, that my friend is Tumbleweed. He is, you guessed it, a tumbleweed that talks. It just so happened that he breezed in one day and got caught up on a worn-out pair of boots. In my opinion, ever since he’s been rolling around telling some real dry stinkers.
Send your yarns to: Rusty Potts and his donkey Jenny.
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Pyridines’ Recipe (for disaster)
Do not try these at home, unless you use a fully licensed cauldron
Hammer Toe-Fu
Ingredients:
1. 2 wood blocks
2. 1 hammer toe
3. ¼ cup toe lint
4. 3 Tbsp. blister beetle syrup
5. Several construction nails
6. 1 Ice block from a frozen river
Remove toe lint, who really wants to see that anyway. Set a nail atop the wood board and strike with hammer toe.
Continue until the pain is so unbearably sore you have to swear at the nail with a big "fu."
Repeat to assemble the rest of the planks until you have a shack.
Place hammer toe on ice and drink the syrup for comfort.
Once set you will have a shack to rest your sore toe.
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About a year ago I started colorizing Old West photos. Mostly American frontier photographs that were taken between 1860 and 1910. This can all be found on Instagram as @old_west_in_color or in a search in Facebook as Old West in Color.
Colorized by Lorin Morgan-Richards, photograph by Erwin E. Smith of fiddler Harry Patten, circa 1908.
#7 –August 2019
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
First look at the cover for The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain, tentatively to be released in early 2020.
The good news, is that it's nearing completion. The bad news is that it takes me close to a decade to write a novel as bits and pieces form over the course of time and characters develop. Thankfully, I have the gag-a-day comic series The Goodbye Family to keep everyone entertained. This book is a sequel to Me’ma and the Great Mountain but also acts as prequel to the comic series in which Orphie becomes sheriff.
Looking back, the Goodbye Family started after a trip my wife and I took to Wales and France. I remember it was in Paris that I began jotting down their peculiar personalities and jokes around them. I think our intention that day was to go to the catacombs but someone vandalized them so it was closed. The first comic I crafted was of Orphie sitting atop the Notre Dame Cathedral perched together with the gargoyles. Then it was Otis boarding a train and being questioned for a shrunken-head in his baggage and Pyridine sewing a cadaver in Cardiff. Interestingly, the idea for Orphie came at this point, possibly influenced by a friend’s child who was just born named Heidi, but also perhaps a premonition of my own daughter Berlin that really has been my muse for the character. Thankfully, Berlin is not as wild or death-defying as Orphie.
I have begun my ninth collection of comics entitled Yippee Ki-Yayenne Mother Pepper: Getting Saucy with the Goodbye Family with its release expected around October. I’m hoping you are enjoying the current collection The Importance of Being Otis or plan to pick it up soon. With the ninth installment in the works, I’m also happy to announce that my first volume of the Goodbye Family is approaching for next year with the very best selections from each book.
Don’t leave Nicklesworth a ghost town! Visit the weird western town online: Click on buildings to learn their Old West history as well as gain some insight into how the townsfolk go about their daily lives. Also be sure to click on character cards to get a brief overview of each person. Visit the town at lorinrichards.com and click on The Goodbye Family. Visit the town at lorinrichards.com and click on The Goodbye Family
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FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS
Rusty Potts: If you’re about town enough like me, you’re bound to smell the smoke and vittles from the chuckwagon. Well that is Ol’ Man Pickenpinch’s daily offerings of questionably edible and semi-fresh ingredients from his farm. Every morning he rides in ala carte and caters to anyone that is looking to eat out. Usually folk that can’t afford Mike’s Place. I don’t think Mike’s Place has much to worry about, they get their ingredients from Barry Dingle, his farm being a neighbor and chief rival of Pickenpinch. But that’s another story all together. Pickenpinch, just as his name sounds, is getting up in age and sometimes he’s liable to serve you something strange like his famous Shoe Fly Pie, known for its stinky pair of boots sitting in a pan with flies circling it.
Send your yarns to: Rusty Potts and his donkey Jenny.
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Pyridines’ Recipe (for disaster)
Do not try these at home, unless you use a fully licensed cauldron
Zesty Roast Goop with Uncle Herb Fillings
Ingredients:
1. Freshly ground Buzzard goop, the stuff that form in the creases of their eye
2. 3 tablespoons of tooth fillings from Uncle Herb
3. 4 cloves of garlic laid atop a stricken vampire, mix with its dust
4. Leaves from the top of a giant Purple Leaf tree
5. 2 cups low-sodium Blister Beetle sweat
6. 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Dry the buzzard goop. Arrange a rack over the fireplace and heat. Make sure first that no one is on the rack relaxing. Bake until quite crisp, or is it chip, crisp or chip depending on where you’re from.
After removing the dried goop from the rack, turn up the oven to scolding. Not to the point of it cursing, but just slightly below – perhaps at mildly annoying.
Next cook the dusty garlic until tender.
Simmer 2 cups of low-sodium Blister Beetle sweat in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the kosher salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until very soft.
Add Uncle herb’s tooth fillings. Stir and cook for 2 minutes more. Remove from the heat.
Sprinkle the dried buzzard goop to a large bowl of Purple Leaf leaves. Add the mixture and voila you have a zesty salad.
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About a year ago I started colorizing Old West photos. Mostly American frontier photographs that were taken between 1860 and 1910. This can all be found on Instagram as @old_west_in_color or in a search in Facebook as Old West in Color.
Wyatt Earp on his 75th birthday, circa 1920s, colorized by Lorin Morgan-Richards
#6 –July 2019
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
My eighth collection of comics entitled The Importance of Being Otis, Undertaking with the Goodbye Family, will be available July 8th through online retailers Barnes and Noble and Amazon to name a few. The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain, a long-awaited sequel to Me’ma and the Great Mountain, which focuses on the misadventures of Orphie, Otis and Pyridine, is moving forward. Final edits are being made, and illustrations for the story have begun. It is expected to be released in the early part of 2020 with many glorious announcements around it.
Have you been to Nicklesworth? That’s right you can now visit the weird western town online! Click on buildings to learn their Old West history as well as gain some insight into how the townsfolk go about their daily lives. Also, be sure to click on character cards to get a brief overview of each person. Visit the town at lorinrichards.com and click on The Goodbye Family.
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CODE OF THE WEIRD WEST
1) Live each day like it’s your last, cause it just might be if you cross Orphie.
2) Don’t encourage or pet Rusty’s cat, cause it's actually a skunk.
3) Never make fun of Ol’ Man Pickenpinch’s brownies.
4) Suoq reminds us always say hello.
5) Don’t trust an alien named Jorge in his UFO ten-gallon hat, you may find yourself on another planet.
6) Tumbleweed’s jokes will always be dry and prickly.
7) Ride for the Baron if you want everything to go to him.
8) A hot potato is a baked potato. Just ask Murphy the spud.
9) Remember, some sales are two for one at Dusty's Bordello.
10) Know where to draw the line, always a foot back from where someone spits.
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FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS
Rusty Potts: I hear yea varmints want to know more about the people about town. Well, let me start by telling you about Knockout Kate. She’s the most sought after girl in town, probably cause there isn’t many. She’s a saloon feature that has no tolerance for her job or her nightly visitors. It’s a real mystery why they keep coming, but somehow they do, but hardly do they leave unscathed. She is seen about town near Madam Dusty’s wearing a corset, feathers in her hair, and high boots.
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Send your yarns to: Rusty Potts and his donkey Jenny at rustypotts.historian@gmail.com.
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Pyridines’ Recipe (for disaster)
do not try these at home, unless you use a fully licensed cauldron
Banana-Hammock Bread Ingredients:
1. One very ripe stinky banana-hammock, peeled from your grandpa’s backside. Then pour over top:
2. 1/3 cup melted butter, no pun intended.
3. 6 cups of sugar (believe me you’ll need it).
4. 1 large egg, beat until it says no more.
5. 1 ½ cups of all-purpose stinkweed flour, to bring out the accents.
6. Toss in a black oven on high heat, occasionally flip the ripe banana-hammock.
7. Take out while pinching nose. Let cool.
8. Then remove the banana-hammock bread from the pan and slice with an axe to serve or remove as you now have a clean pair of undergarments.
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About a year ago I started colorizing Old West photos. Mostly American frontier photographs that were taken between 1860 and 1910. I’ve been doing this as a hobby, but it has brought about good results. This can all be found on Instagram as @old_west_in_color or in a search in Facebook as Old West in Color.
Lulu Bell Parr, colorized by Lorin Morgan-Richards
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Marcil d’Hirson Garron’s Renderings
Marcil d'Hirson Garron creates abstract art called Imperfectualism, check out the artist's gallery here.
The First Step
- Marcil d'Hirson Garron
