Keeping up with the Boneses: Digging with the Goodbye Family

by Lorin Morgan-Richards

Sheriff Orphie has her hands full after the townsfolk come down with the vampire bat flu, opium sales are on the rise, and a horse named Harold is running "foal." Meanwhile, Orphie's mother, Pyridine, a mortician, is making house calls, and her father Otis, the hearse driver, is getting bloated on pickles. Join in the hilarity as the Goodbyes try to keep up with the Boneses in this 11th comic collection by Lorin Morgan-Richards.
The Goodbye Family are a family of undertakers from the Old Weird West of author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards. The family includes Pyridine Goodbye, matriarch and mortician, Otis, father and hearse driver, their daughter Orphie, who is both a gravedigger and Sheriff, along with Ouiji the cat, Dorian the tarantula, and their horse Midnight.

104 pages, Paperback

Published September 27, 2020

About the author

YA author, poet and illustrator, known for his humorous tales and Weird West series 'The Goodbye Family.'

"Lorin Morgan-Richards charts the paths of weird clouds that pass far overhead and then maps the changes that their rain makes on the lives of people living below."-Dark in the Dark Magazine

"Lorin Morgan-Richards has a unique tone and style all his own, and the stories are told in a fashion that pulls the casual reader in with wonderful fancy and the magical quality of good story telling. The high quality illustrations are rendered in sharp crisp lines and add to the wonderment instilled by these fanciful tales."-Macabre Cadavier

"Lorin Morgan-Richards art reminds me of a modern day Charles Addams or Edward Gorey. He dabbles in the unusual and strange, yet there's just enough of the familiar in his artwork to keep it grounded."-From My Bookshelf