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#12 –February 2020
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
Two big announcements! The hardback and paperback copy of my new novel The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain will be released on February 16, 2020, with a special promotional Live-Feed reading of The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series (Click here for more information). The Goodbye Family will be read by the author Lorin Morgan-Richards as Otis, Valerie Stoneking as Pyridine, Berlin Richards as Orphie, Joanne Morrison as Grandma Yeast, Richard-Lael as himself, Nick Gligor as Lou Steed. Directed by Jessica Rose Felix. Premise: A séance is conducted to conjure their Grandma Yeast but it does not go without interference. The other thing I wanted to mention is that I have been invited to be a participant of the Buckaroo Book Shop – a Community Partner to the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival on April 18th and 19th at the William S. Hart Park in Old Town Newhall, California. Hope to see you there!
FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS Rusty Potts: I don’t suppose you know that our town's Lucky "Annie" Lucille is based on a real encounter the author had with a spirit at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Old Town San Diego. Room 4/5 is haunted by an overly-friendly Lady in Red. The author knew nothin' about the spirit before staying in November of 2017, and on the second night's stay, was awoken abruptly by the spirit. Not being able to go back to sleep, he looked up what haunts the room and there were several stories including one from a medium named Bonnie Vent that had channeled her before this encounter. Being a spiritualist, he did not think it out of the ordinary, but recorded audio that night and was convinced it was the Lady in Red's footsteps and activity he could hear in the room. The hotel later, readded a hat and other personnels to appease the spirit, that was missing during his stay. Inspiration can come from the strangest places.
Send your yarns to: Rusty Potts and his donkey Jenny.
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FROM THE AUTHOR: Now I’ve mentioned once before that every artist needs a garden. It could be as little as a small pot with a cactus or a blooming atrium or if lucky an outdoor Victorian spread. Size is not so important as the meditative time spent near one - illuminating and refreshing the mind. Get to know your garden like friends at a party. Find out their interests, qualities, which one is thorny, which one is the nurse, and whom do they mingle well with? If you need inspiration in writing imagine what tiny lairs they live in. In a nutshell, no pun intended, flowers attract life, and life attracts art. A garden is a place to create and reflect.
About a year ago I started colorizing Old West, Victorian and Edwardian photos. This can all be found on my Instagram as @lorin_morgan_richards or in a search in Facebook as Lorin Morgan-Richards.
Evelyn Nesbit, actress, circa 1901, photographer Otto Sarony, colorized by Western author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards
#11 –December/January 2019-2020
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
Can you believe it? The calendar year is at a close already. Well, here are just a few releases slated for 2020: most notably, The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain tentatively scheduled for February 16, 2020. I am also officially announcing that the beloved Hollywood entertainer and medium Richard-Lael Lillard has agreed to do the Foreword for the book. Richard-Lael is not only gifted in the psychical world, which much of the story revolves around, but also the physical as an artist and connoisseur of the Victorian era (a commonality we both share). I am very humbled by his participation.
In conjunction with the release, there will be a Live-Feed reading of The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series (Click here for more information). The Goodbye Family read by the author Lorin Morgan-Richards as Otis, Valerie Stoneking as Pyridine, Berlin Richards as Orphie, Joanne Morrison as Grandma Yeast, Richard-Lael as himself. Directed by Jessica Rose Felix. A seance is conducted to conjure a Grandma Yeast but does not go without interference.
This wonderful event that you will be able to see online is in promotion of The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain by Lorin Morgan-Richards, with a special foreword by Richard-Lael Lillard, and edited by Jessica Rose Felix. A followup novel to Me'ma and the Great Mountain.
I have recently released a new comic collection: Yippee Ki-Yayenne Mother Pepper: Getting Saucy with the Goodbye Family, my ninth installment about the Goodbye Family and the townspeople of Nicklesworth, rolling over 900 illustrations as I make my way to publishing my first Volume, sometime in 2020. In other news, another book will be released in the beginning of the year, Imperfectualism, a term I coined about a year ago, describing a process of drawing from the subconscious. These illustrations accompany my quotes. 2020 will also see the start of the Goodbye Family animation, and a short story about Vampira (if you liked my book A Little Hard to Swallow: 1334 about Rozz Williams or The Night Speaks to Me: A Posthumous Account of Jim Morrison, you should enjoy this).
FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS
Rusty Potts: Occasionally we see something flying in the air only to go down quickly into cacti, or hear a boom and then see charred inventors emerge. Well that is brothers Wilber and Orville Wrong. Ever since seeing a UFO, Wilber has been determined to fly. He has failed mostly at his inventions with the exception of creating a one-way time machine. His accomplice in the matter is Orville who wisely does not get caught up into the dangerous feats. They first appeared in the 2018 comics.
Send your yarns to: Rusty Potts and his donkey Jenny.
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About a year ago I started colorizing Old West, Victorian and Edwardian photos. This can all be found on my Instagram as @lorin_morgan_richards or in a search in Facebook as Lorin Morgan-Richards.
Vivian Reed, circa 1920, a request from the great beyond. Yes occasionally, a spirit connects with me and makes a request for a colorization.
#10 –Halloween/November 2019
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
October is always full of inspiring festivities, but here in Southern California it also was fueled with some pretty nasty fires. Hopefully that is behind us, thanks to the credit of our incredible emergency response services. Be sure to thank any that cross your path. Not sure where we would be without them. So what's new? Well my 900th comic was published on October 31st in Yippee Ki-Yayenne Mother Pepper: Getting Saucy with the Goodbye Family. Available in online stores (Amazon and Barnes and Noble links here) and by order in your local retailers.
Lots underway as we move into Fall: scriptwriting for the Goodbye Family animation, working on a short story about Vampira (if you liked my book about Rozz Williams and Jim Morrison, you should enjoy this), and of course finishing my illustrations for the novel about The Goodbye Family with a release date of Feb/March of 2020. I do have other ideas that may surface, so keep an eye out.
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FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS
Rusty Potts: Sue and Sam Shave are the local doctors in town. I could swear they are twins, but they say they are married and Sue works the appointments while Sam does the doctoring. Funny, now that I think about it, I've never seen them together. There's a rumor that has shaken the town that Sue is actually doing it all, and wearing a fake mustache as Sam, but that came from the mouth of a drunkard that suddenly took ill and didn't make it through the night.
Send your yarns to: Rusty Potts and his donkey Jenny.
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The Goodbye Family Unofficial Soundtracks
Ever wonder what music would make a great soundtrack for the Goodbye Family? Well, don't hurt your noggin' thinking about it too hard as I've done the dirty work and prepared some of my favorite tunes in a two-part playlist broken up between THE WEIRD and THE WEST. If you have an Apple Music you'll have no problem playing it.
For THE WEIRD (also makes a perfect playlist for Halloween) click here: THE WEIRD
For THE WEST click here: THE WEST
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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 my Instagram as @lorin_morgan_richards or in a search in Facebook as Lorin Morgan-Richards.
Colorized by Lorin Morgan-Richards, photograph of a farmer's family, circa 1900
#9 –October 2019
Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter, with input from the town historian Rusty Potts
LATEST NEWS
Do you feel the chill in the air? That must mean one thing, either Otis Goodbye forgot to light the crematorium or it’s suddenly October! I just love this month as the foliage changes colors and the heat dissipates. Spiders make elaborate webbings in your yard as insects get in their last feasts before going underground for Winter. Autumn is truly a special time and my family was honored with a sign on our mailbox that read ‘congratulations you’re the first to put out their Halloween decorations - signed your neighbors’. Truthfully, we’d keep it out all year round outside the house as we do inside but alas I digress.
September was most bleak but had some fun attending Calico Days and Randsburg Old West Day, but October is looking to have several releases, including a reissue of ‘The Terribly Mini Monster Book’ in paperback and my ninth collection of comics entitled ‘Yippee Ki-Yayenne Mother Pepper: Getting Saucy with the Goodbye Family.’ Here is a first look at the cover.
I have begun writing a script for an animation of The Goodbye Family. This entails learning new tools to make this happen. Bear with me but I do hope this is finished in 2020. More to say perhaps next month. My novel for The Goodbye Family is also being illustrated with a release date of Feb/March of 2020.
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FROM THE CAVE OF RUSTY POTTS
Rusty Potts: Who are Orphie’s trusted partners in fighting crime? Besides her cat Ouiji who can claw away trouble, but usually just sits on horse Midnight and cough up hairballs, she also carries a spider under her hat named Dorian that provides a good net for catching crooks, and recently has been spotted using a snake (with its permission of course) named Lassy as a living lasso. She apparently deputized them all and has had no complaints in mopping up the town. Can’t say the same for the last sheriff that went missing when the Fire Ant Gang rode in or if you recall the Octopus Otis and Pyridine hired when Orphie went abroad.
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
Boiled Bare Breasted Beast Sand Witch
Ingredients:
1. 1 Bare Breasted Beast
2. 3 tablespoons of blister beetle butter
3. 1 Sand Witch present and accounted for
Preheat cauldron to a boil. Generously butter the bare breasted beast. Tie buttered bare breasted beast onto a rope and lower into cauldron. Have Sand Witch read her incantation of burps while buttered bare breasted beast is browned, turn in cauldron, until burped on and browned buttered bare breasted beast is baked. Remove your baked burped on and browned bare breasted beast. Serves 10 on broomstick.
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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 of frontier town (Dodge City or Abilene), circa 1872
#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
