Lorin Morgan-Richards
Description
YA author, poet and illustrator, known for his humorous tales and Weird West series The Goodbye Family.
Books
The Dreaded Summons and Other Misplaced Bills
The Dreaded Summons and Other Misplaced Bills by Lorin Morgan-Richards investigates seven unfortunate accounts piled together to make you laugh. The collection opens with Tina Teatree who has a compulsion for weeding that soon digs up the root of her problem. The title story is The Dreaded Summons about an introvert and his friendship with a lost Manatee. Other stories reveal the Breakfast Hunter, J.J. Whitweather, Shirley Short, and Fig B. Willingsbee.
Wanted
Betrayed by his first wife, Simon Grimshaw won't marry again. But sultry nights in Singapore can be lonely--nothing a beautiful English mistress wouldn't fix! Bethan Conway answers an advert to become a wife, believing it will help her secret search for her missing brother. But Simon isn't the ugly old man she was expecting. He's a hot-blooded bachelor who wants a woman in his bed--a position Bethan's more and more tempted to fill!
Welsh in the Old West
Over thirty biographies of known and lesser known emigrants from Wales and Welsh descendants whose lives helped shape the American West as we know it today. Fully illustrated by select artists from Wales and the US depicting these pioneers, outlaws, inventors, military leaders, miners, and more. A special foreword by Jude Johnson, author of Cactus Cymry.
Nicklesworth
Sheriff Orphie Goodbye lassoes trouble in the town of Nicklesworth, with her deputies Ouiji and Dorian, when she learns of a new criminal Frank Thorne is coming to test her courage. The town booms as several more arrive including a talking tumbleweed, an artist, and a strange masked man who only says Howdy. Dusty's Bordello flourishes in the growth while Madeline Sage opens a theatre. This is the fifth collection of comics by Lorin Morgan-Richards.
The Importance of Being Otis
Otis may be handy with the spade but what makes him undertake his duties? In this eighth installment of comics by Lorin Morgan-Richards, we dig deeper into the mortician who sprinkles the creme on top of crematory. Included in this book are all your favorite slightly-deranged characters including Otis' rootin-tootin' daughter and sheriff Orphie, his morbidly witchy-wife Pyridine, their pickle-loving horse Midnight, and their hairball raising cat and quilting tarantula Dorian. As well you'll find in these pages the town of Nicklesworth's own: Tumbleweed, Souq, Rowe, Knockout Kate, Miss Abigail, Ol' Man Pickenpinch, among others!
Dead Man's Hand-Kerchief
The supernatural saddle bags go loose in this seventh installment of Old Weird West comics by Lorin Morgan-Richards. Our favorite undertakers can't appease the dead, while Mister Lint gets abducted, Wilbur Wrong travels through time, Tumbleweed is hoarding, Sam/Sue Shave take new patients, and Orphie gets the winning hand against lawlessness.
Memento mori
The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis.
Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories
Simon Snootle and OTHER small stories is about seven misguided tales of humorous woe by several downtrodden characters that are simply looking to be themselves. The book begins with Simon Snootle, a meager young man who lived most of his life at the bottom of a cistern with neighborhood cats. He is not aware of any tragedy of the situation, but rather makes the best of it, knowing that eventually more things will fall in as he did.
Down West
All new comics of The Noodle Rut and The Goodbye Family plus Orphie sets off overseas to play camp in a land of dandy and deadly outlaws. Her abilities as a tough sheriff prove useful in tracking the likes of Trigger Happy Hoppy and the Apple Juice Kid. Meanwhile, Otis and Pyridine grow restless as the house begins to fall apart without their daughter's aid.
Dark Letter Days
Dark Letter Days by Lorin Morgan-Richards reveals 23 woeful poems and spoken word with illustration about life, death and what lies beyond the unknown. Dark Letter Days derives from the ancient pastime of marking the calendar, as red letter days in times of happiness, and dark letter days: days in which we were sorrowful and sat in the shadows.
The Night Speaks to Me
In Paris and yearning for poetic inspiration, Jim follows a peculiar old man into the darkened lair of PEre Lachaise Cemetery. The Night Speaks to Me: A Posthumous Account of Jim Morrison by Lorin Morgan-Richard is an original tale of dark fiction featuring 10 illustrations by the author. "Memories," I said in frustration, "they float around. I sing. It never goes. I watch people. I write. It never leaves. These ghosts...are all still with me. I find myself traveling back and forth, but its goes like the wind. It's hard to explain."
The Goodbye Family Unveiled
What the crape? Lorin Morgan-Richards presents his third collection of panel comics from The Goodbye Family and The Noodle Rut. With an uptick of paranormal happenings in town, Orphie officially takes over as sheriff, while Pyridine tests out her mortician delivery service and Otis questions the family business.
A Welsh Alphabet
Over 30 artistic interpretations of Welsh mythology and legend set to the poetic work of author Lorin Morgan-Richards. Includes a special preface and notes throughout the book by Welsh storyteller Peter Anthony Freeman and artist contributions by Jen Delyth, Monica Richards, Casey Ruic, Frankie Babylon, John Charles, Gina Turcios (rabbit), Phresha Le Vandale, David Richardson, Adrien Burke, Spinestealer, Nicole Josephian, Kelly McCartin, Gaabriel Becket, Nicolas Caesar, Rick Dienzo Blanco, Meiling Chen, Nichola Hope, Chris Mann, Andrea Gutierrez, Calan Ree, Kimberly Wlassak, Sarah Hope, Jo Mazelis, Rochelle Shelly Rosenkild, Michele Witchipoo, Lorin Morgan-Richards, Xavier Lopez Jr., Rhys Jones, Liam O'Connor, Jeremy Cross, and Jason Shepherd.
A Little Hard to Swallow
A pocket sized illustrated poetry book based on the life of Rozz Williams, a pioneer of Deathrock. Rozz Williams was born Roger Alan Painter in Glendora, California on November 6, 1963. He took his name from a gravestone in a Pomona cemetery. His first breakthrough came in 1979 with the band Christian Death, a play on the brand Christian Dior. In 1981, he collaborated with performance artist Ron Athey to produce the beginnings of Industrial noise in a project called Premature Ejaculation. Always an innovator, Rozz Williams changed the depth of music and art while inspiring subsequent generations of artists.
Me'ma and the Great Mountain
Me'ma and the Great Mountain by Lorin Morgan-Richards is about little girl named Me'ma who lives in an oppressed village called Sunken Creek. Faced with removal, Me'ma brings to focus her extraordinary ability to see ghoulish characters who try to help her in overcoming the nightmare she and her people are facing from an evil tyrant. Includes a special foreword by Corine Fairbanks (Oglala Lakota).
