Lorin Morgan-Richards

{{Short description|American cartoonist (born 1975)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Lorin Morgan-Richards

| image = Lorin Morgan-Richards author and illustrator.jpg

| caption = Morgan-Richards in 2016

| pseudonym =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|02|16}}

| birth_place = Beebetown, Ohio, U.S.

| occupation = Author
poet
cartoonist
playwright
composer
publisher
animator
historian

| education = Cuyahoga Community College (AA), California State University, Los Angeles (BA)

| genre = Young adult fiction, Weird West, Gothic Western, Gothic fiction, Western, short stories, humor, surrealism, literary nonsense, supernatural fiction

| notableworks = The Goodbye Family, Me'ma and the Great Mountain, A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels, Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories, Imperfectualism

| spouse = Valerie Stoneking

| children = 1

| website = {{URL|lorinrichards.com}}

| signature = Signature of Lorin Morgan-Richards.png

}}

Lorin Morgan-Richards (born February 16, 1975) is an American author, illustrator,{{cite web |url=https://www.scbwi.org/speakers/lorin-morgan-richards-2 |title=Speaker Profile – Lorin Morgan-Richards |publisher=Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators |date=January 1, 2017 |access-date=2019-05-10 |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510144138/https://www.scbwi.org/speakers/lorin-morgan-richards-2 |url-status=dead }} and songwriter,{{cite web|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/1CEZTUOU2BOUaJjwrUZXC0|title=An Occurrence Remembered|website=Open.spotify.com|access-date=2020-03-18}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lorinrichards.com/music.html|title = Lorin Morgan-Richards Storefront – Music by Lorin Morgan-Richards}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBj97hhUqp7NgMYsf3Gnr5Q|title = Lorin Morgan-Richards – YouTube|website = YouTube}} primarily known for his young adult fiction and Gothic Western comedy series The Goodbye Family.{{cite web | url=https://tubitv.com/series/300009609/the-goodbye-family-the-animated-series | title=The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series }}

In the past, Richards served as the publisher of Celtic Family Magazine,{{cite web|url=http://www.walesartsreview.org/the-welsh-in-america/ |title=The Welsh in America |publisher=Wales Art Review |date=February 27, 2013 |access-date=2014-08-05}} and was the founder of the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival,{{cite web |url=http://www.welshicons.org.uk/news/welsh-singing-sensation-meinir-gwilym-makes-her-american-debut-in-hollywood/ |title=Welsh Singing Sensation Meinir Gwilym Makes her American Debut in Hollywood |publisher=Welsh Icon News |date=January 12, 2014 |access-date=2014-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810042211/http://www.welshicons.org.uk/news/welsh-singing-sensation-meinir-gwilym-makes-her-american-debut-in-hollywood/ |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/381087/Richard-Burton-honorured-with-a-star-on-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame |title=Richard Burton honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame |website=Express.co.uk |date=March 1, 2013 |access-date=2014-08-05}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/st-davids-day-wales-around-6758228/ |title=St David's Day: Wales Around the World |publisher=Daily Post |date=February 28, 2014 |access-date=2014-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129033256/http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/st-davids-day-wales-around-6758228 |archive-date=November 29, 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.carmarthenjournal.co.uk/Carmarthenshire-Hollywood/story-20445486-detail/story.html |title=From Carmarthenshire to Hollywood |publisher=Carmarthen Journal |date=January 15, 2014 |access-date=2014-08-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319001217/http://www.carmarthenjournal.co.uk/Carmarthenshire-Hollywood/story-20445486-detail/story.html |archive-date=March 19, 2014 }} one of the largest Welsh festivals of its kind in the United States.

Morgan-Richards was born in Beebetown, Ohio, and is of Swiss (Amish) and Welsh descent.

Early years

Richards was raised in an old converted one-room schoolhouse in Beebetown, Ohio, that had a well for water. His mother (a student of fine art) taught him the basics of drawing and music composition on the family pump organ. Richards also credited his imagination on the plentiful books his family owned, creative isolation, and the sheer number of animals they took care of, many of which he incorporated into his early drawings and writings.{{cite web|date=July 1, 2014|title=Celts in California|url=http://issuu.com/jamesmichaelmcdonough/docs/irish_a_e_for_digital|access-date=2014-08-05|publisher=Irish Arts & Entertainment}}

Richards interest in Native American and American Western history began in childhood. "I remember my first book as a child was The Indians Knew by Tillie S. Pine, an early reader from 1965 explaining the cultural ways and historical resourcefulness of Native Americans and how they are applied in the sciences today."{{cite web|url=http://www.british-weekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/lrbw032616.pdf |title=Welsh in the Old West: More than you thought |publisher=British Weekly |date=March 26, 2016 |access-date=2016-04-04}}

When Richards entered second grade, he was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia that required tutoring through the ninth grade. By his early teens, he was reading and became inspired by Edward Lear, L. Frank Baum, Roald Dahl, and Lewis Carroll; helping him overcome his reading disability.{{cite web|url=http://steamkat.com/feature-dark-letter-days-by-lorin-morgan-richards/ |title=Interview with Lorin Morgan-Richards |website=SteamKat.com |date=April 9, 2016 |access-date=2016-04-29}}

In 1990, at the age of 15, Richards wrote and produced his first film entitled The Cowboy Movie.

Theater

File:Still photo from NYC Premiere of 'An Occurrence Remembered' directed by Lorin Morgan-Richards, 2001.jpgBetween 1993 and 2003, Richards received an AA Degree in Liberal Arts at Cuyahoga Community College and credited his Anthropology Professor Mark Lewine as a mentor. During this time, Richards also achieved minor success in producing music projects containing modern dance and theater, and befriended and collaborated with artist Textbeak. "I first attended Tri-C Western campus where my focus was on Liberal Arts. At the time, I kept a journal of random thoughts, doodles, and lyrics and used the filter of music as my art. So, the bulk of my classes were in this field of study. I made connections with other artists who shared similar passions, and we were all eager to form various projects of expression. I moved to Lakewood to be closer to the performance spaces and switched to Tri-C Metro where I was awakened out of my shell by an Anthropology teacher named Dr. Mark Lewine."{{cite web|last=Cacho |first=Daniela |url=http://www.cccvoice.com/2018/02/26/one-of-many-tri-c-alumni-contains-a-creator-of-childrens-literature/ |title=One of many Tri-C Alumni Contains a Creator of Children's Literature – The Voice |website=Cccvoice.com |date=February 13, 2015 |access-date=2018-02-27}} In 1999, Richards solo album ENKI and subsequent live production were based on Zecharia Sitchin's book The Twelfth Planet.Scene Magazine, 2000 Scene Magazine Music Awards, Erick Trickey, published April 27, 2000Last Sigh Magazine, Enki, by Tek, published May 28, 2000The Cleveland Free Times, The Power of ENKI, by Laura DeMarco, Published November 17–23, 1999 The show premiered in Cleveland, Ohio under the choreography of Michael Medcalf. Native American musical act Shouting Mountain opened the evening. In 2001, Richards followed the success of ENKI with the production of An Occurrence Remembered, influenced by the metaphysical war writings of Ambrose Bierce. The performance premiered in New York City.Civil War Times Illustrated, December 2001{{cite web|url=http://www.ambrosebierce.org/journal4zaffino.html|title=Kyle Zaffino Reviews a Concept Album by Lorin Morgan-Richards|website=Ambrosebierce.org}} Richards reflects on the performance: "Rehearsals were underway when 9-11 happened and I recall we continued only for our own therapy of the situation, knowing theater-goers were not going out. It was a tremendous performance, but it financially broke me."Golwg360, January 21, 2016, Welsh language newspaper.

Richards calls his synth music "Dark Electronic Storytelling" as it is conceptually based on written works and is meant for dramatic performance.{{cite web |url=https://www.darktwincities.com/reviews.php?review=60 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615004507/https://www.darktwincities.com/reviews.php?review=60 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |title=Reviews |website=Darktwincities.com |date=October 4, 2008 |access-date=2018-06-14 }}

Richards announced on social media in June 2018 that he was re-releasing previous albums and upcoming tracks under the new moniker Elder Moon.{{cite tweet|number=1007344454926135296|user=LMorganRichards|title=I will be rereleasing my past albums and upcoming tracks as my new songwriting moniker Elder Moon. Updates will be… |accessdate=2018-06-14|language=en|date=June 14, 2018}}

Writing career

In 2002, Richards moved to Los Angeles to start over where he refocused his artistic direction into writing and illustrating, which he said: "did not need the expenses of my past but only a pen and paper."Gothic Beauty Magazine, Issue 31, 2010 While his novel Me'ma and the Great Mountain (2012) began drafts as early as 2002, it was Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories that became his first book release in 2009.{{cite web|last=Lamkin|first=Elaine|date=January 29, 2010|title=Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories (Book) {{!}} Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/simon-snootle-and-other-small-stories-book|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129081753/http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/simon-snootle-and-other-small-stories-book|archive-date=January 29, 2010}}Disdeinen.net, October 13, 2009

The following year Richards delivered four new releases including his second book of short stories in A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels.

Richards conceptualized most of The Goodbye Family characters in 2009 during a trip to the UK and France with his wife, although they were mentioned before this in his western novel Me'ma and the Great Mountain. Richards explains "I took a diary on the trip to write my second novel The Goodbye Family.File:Orphie Goodbye Family Lorin Morgan-Richards.jpg

The Goodbye family consisted of undertakers Otis and Pyridine, their daughter Orphie and her pet tarantula Dorian. Orphie was first seen atop the Notre Dame Cathedral with gargoyles, Otis was trying to board a train at customs with a shrunken head, Pyridine was sewing a limb back together in Cardiff, and Dorian was capturing a fairy to eat. Following these illustrations, a cat Ouiji was unveiled and Orphie is said to have a brother named Kepla, but he is hardly ever seen and it is unclear if he even exists."{{cite web|url=http://steamkat.com/goodbyeanniversary-2/ |title=An Interview with Lorin Morgan-Richards |website=SteamKat.com|date=November 28, 2016 |access-date=2017-04-26}}

Between 2009 and 2013, Richards was bookbinding his limited edition versions of each title with runs equaling 50 to 400. These collectible books were typically oversewn by hand with a faux leather hard backing and linen pages inside. In an interview he states:

"Having seen what is being printed by majors these days with poor quality paper, I wanted to provide the reader with a book that carries more value near the same price and that can last for generations. Nothing would be more inspiring to me than to know my books are treasured like an heirloom."

Stylistically, Richards prefers a pencil and ink approach to his illustrations, and his writing often has elements of dark satire. Many of his stories also have a strong environmental message.{{cite web |url=https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-with-34254480 |title=Patreon Interview with Lorin Mortan-Richards | the Gentleman Psychic on Patreon |website=www.patreon.com |access-date=January 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227172800/https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-with-34254480 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |url-status=dead}}

Between 2015 and 2018 Richards ran two weekly cartoons on Steamkat, a comic strip site, The Goodbye Family and The Noodle Rut.{{cite web|url=http://steamkat.com/ |title=Home |website=SteamKat.com|access-date=2017-04-26}} Richards won the 2016 Official Tasty Nugget award for his illustrated story Sad Lost Doll.{{cite web |url=http://tastynuggets.com/morgan-richards |title=Tasty Nuggets Banjo's Hollywood |website=Tastynuggets.com |date=November 1, 2016 |access-date=2016-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111060737/http://tastynuggets.com/morgan-richards |archive-date=November 11, 2016 |url-status=dead }} File:Marcil d'Hirson Garron.jpg Since 2018, Richards has syndicated his series The Goodbye Family on Tapas as well as through his social media.{{cite web|url=https://tapas.io/series/The-Goodbye-Family|title=The Goodbye Family | Tapas|website=Tapas.io|access-date=2020-03-18}} In 2021, Richards created The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series.{{cite web|url=http://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-orphie-goodbye/|title = Conversations with Orphie Goodbye – Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide| date=December 3, 2021 }}

=The Goodbye Family=

{{Main|The Goodbye Family}}File:Down_West_by_Lorin_Morgan-Richards.jpg

Since 2017, Richards has released his comic collections on a nearly quarterly basis, growing his audience, and solely focusing on The Goodbye Family and his Weird West brand. In an interview in 2019, he announced an early 2020 release of his second novel The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain.

Producer and Director

Richards has produced and directed several documentaries relating to the American Frontier experience and Welsh American stories. In fiction, Richards created The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series, based on his Weird West characters, which has received such accolades as one of the top ten best animated TV series in 2022 by New York Magazine.{{cite web|author=Eric Vilas-Boas |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-animated-tv-shows-2022.html |title=The Best Animated TV Shows of 2022, Ranked |publisher=Vulture.com |date=2022-12-16 |accessdate=2022-12-22}}

A Raven Above Press

A Raven Above Press was founded in 2009 by Richards with a focus on printing his illustrated stories and promoting other authors and illustrators of Celtic and Native American origin. The press also became a catalyst for producing cultural events and art exhibits. Notably, the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.walesworldwide.org/2014/02/welsh-artists-to-descend-on-hollywood-this-coming-st-davids-day/ |title=Welsh artists to descend on Hollywood this coming St David's Day |publisher=Wales World Wide |date=February 10, 2014 |access-date=2014-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034417/http://www.walesworldwide.org/2014/02/welsh-artists-to-descend-on-hollywood-this-coming-st-davids-day/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=usurped }} On August 1, 2013, Celtic Family Magazine hit the newsstands with a release party in Cardiff, Wales. Richards was the founder and publisher of Celtic Family Magazine from its inception in 2013 to its hiatus in 2017.

The logo for A Raven Above Press displays a raven atop a bending cypress tree. Model Wednesday Mourning appeared in the main ad for A Raven Above Press,{{cite web |url=http://www.aravenabovepress.org/products/a-raven-above-press-t-shirt |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228152253/http://www.aravenabovepress.org/products/a-raven-above-press-t-shirt |archive-date=February 28, 2018 |url-status=usurped }} as well as Richards daughter Berlin in her traditional Welsh dress.

Richards would produce a book for every Welsh event he curated through A Raven Above Press. Outside of including his own illustration, these books often had American and Welsh artists depict the subject matter. Notable artists involved were Jen Delyth, Ruth Jên, Siobhan Owen, Monica Richards, Nichola and Sarah Hope, and Nathan Wyburn to name a few. The following is a list of these books:

  • A Welsh Alphabet by Lorin Morgan-Richards and Peter Anthony Freeman (2010) in conjunction with the 2011 West Coast Eisteddfod.
  • The Children's Voice: A Definitive Collection of Welsh Nursery Rhymes by Peter Anthony Freeman (2012) in conjunction with the 2012 Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.
  • The Age of Saints by Peter Anthony Freeman (2013) in conjunction with the 2013 Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.
  • Welsh in the Old West by Lorin Morgan-Richards (2015) created for but released after the 2014 Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.

=Native American Involvement=

File:Lorin Morgan-Richards speaking at Bringing the Circle Together.jpg Richards speaking on the history books he read in grade school: "Usually the pictures told much more about American history than the text. I remembered seeing at a very early age a glowing photo of Custer and a few pages after (of) an elderly man, who looked like my own grandfather, lying dead in the snow. He was alone, and without care. I later found out his name was Miniconjou chief Spotted Elk (Bigfoot) and he was part of the massacre at Wounded Knee. That photo has always stuck with me. I knew something was not right, and the text which was alongside it was not giving the full story."

In 2004, Richards worked at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian while pursuing his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles with a focus on Native American studies.{{cite web|url=http://authoranthonyavinablog.com/2020/06/19/author-interview-with-lorin-morgan-richards/|title=Author Interview with Lorin Morgan-Richards|date=June 19, 2020}}

==Bringing the Circle Together==

{{Main|Bringing the Circle Together}}

File:Western children's author Lorin Morgan-Richards with his daughter Berlin.jpg Between 2008 and 2012, Richards partnered with Native American and Indigenous groups in Los Angeles to establish Bringing the Circle Together,{{cite web|url=http://feministmagazine.org/2009/03/mar-18-on-fm/ |title=Mar 18 on FM: Women's Month, Bridge City & So. Central Farm Update |publisher=Feminist Magazine |date=March 18, 2009 |access-date=2017-04-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.garinet.com/main.php?module=gcms&node=gcms_front&action=get_content_detail&content_id=4614&category_id=150&parent_id=230 |title=In Los Angeles, A Free Screening of Quest of the Carib Canoe |website=Garinet.com |date=June 18, 2009 |access-date=2017-04-26}} a free monthly film series hosted at the Japanese American National Museum. The series offered a central gathering place to screen documentaries by and about Indigenous people while providing historical narratives with guest speakers, and art and cultural demonstrations. Special guests included Makana, Saginaw Grant, Douglas Miles, Blase Bonpane, among others.

The film series in partnership with AIM Santa Barbara held a community birthday celebration at Nahui Ohlin in Los Angeles for Leonard Peltier on September 12, 2009, with an update on his status and how the public could get involved to petition his release. Richards spoke to a reporter: "This is all grassroots. Everyone's voice counts. The time is now because Barack Obama, our president, had said it's not the president that actually makes the change, it's going to be our pressure upon the president that will make the change."{{cite web|url=http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/09/230316.php |title=Rally for Leonard Peltier : LA IMC |website=La.indymedia.org |access-date=2017-04-26}} The event was followed in December by a screening of Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier with discussion afterward by Ben Carnes, members of AIM Santa Barbara, as well as friends and family.{{cite web |url=http://www.janm.org/events/2009/12/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041104205917/http://www.janm.org/events/2009/12/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2004 |title=Events | Japanese American National Museum |website=Janm.org |access-date=2017-04-26 }}

History was made at the film series on February 25, 2010, at the screening of Lost Nation: The Ioway when representatives of the Southern Ioway and Northern Ioway tribes gathered with Tongva leaders, making it the first time a meeting took place between Southern California and Midwestern Native American Nations.{{cite web |url=http://www.iowaymovie.com/news.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723210720/http://www.iowaymovie.com/news.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 23, 2008 |title="Lost Nation: The Ioway" – News |website=Iowaymovie.com |access-date=2017-04-26 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov/sites/sfnation/uploads/documents/News12/july/july_finished_2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921052043/http://sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov/sites/sfnation/uploads/documents/News12/july/july_finished_2.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 21, 2015|title=Sac and Fox News|website=www.sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov|accessdate=2020-03-18}}

=Celtic involvement=

File:Author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards in Old Town San Diego (33520541991).jpg

Richards became heavily involved in the Welsh-American community after the closure of the Welsh Presbyterian Church in December 2012.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} Before this, Richards had helped coordinate an Eisteddfod at Barnsdall Art Park in 2011. Feeling a need to fill the void of losing the church as a cultural center, Richards founded the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival, an annual event taking place on or around March 1 celebrating Wales. The first festival took place on March 1, 2013. Singer and harpist Siobhan Owen headlined the large-scale event. In conjunction with the festival, Richards began producing Celtic Family Magazine, a nationally distributed print and digital publication on Celtic interests.{{cite web|last=Barton |first=Cath |url=http://www.walesartsreview.org/the-welsh-in-america/ |title=The Welsh in America |date=October 31, 2013 |publisher=Wales Arts Review |access-date=2017-04-26}}

Imperfectualism

Imperfectualism is an anti-art treatise by Lorin Morgan-Richards, using the pen name Marcil d'Hirson Garron, and first published in January 2020.{{cite book|title=Imperfectualism (9781733287944): Lorin Morgan-Richards: Books|isbn=978-1733287944|last1=Morgan-Richards|first1=Lorin|year=2020|publisher=A Raven Above Press }} Richards defines Impefectualism as art that cannot be easily replicated by machine. An imperfectualist looks to slow automation through their art.{{cite web|url=https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lorin-morgan-richards|title=Marcil D'Hirson Garron aka Lorin Morgan-Richards – Art|website=Fineartamerica.com|access-date=2020-03-18}} The theme of Imperfectualism is the art of being imperfect. Richards used automatic drawing as a means of producing the work where conscious control is suppressed.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLhozAEACAAJ|title=Imperfectualism|first=Lorin|last=Morgan-Richards|date=March 18, 2020|publisher=Raven Above Press, A|isbn=9781733287944|via=Google Books}}

In several interviews, Richards mentioned being influenced by the Dadaists and Surrealists.

{{cite web|author= |url=https://boldjourney.com/meet-lorin-morgan-richards/ |title=Meet Lorin Morgan-Richards |publisher=boldjourney.com |date=2023-10-03 |accessdate=2023-10-03}}

Personal life

=Beliefs=

Richards considers himself a Spiritualist, stating that:

After a lifetime of witnessing spirit communication and most remarkably of that spirit I have seen firsthand, some in very close proximity, I feel I need to announce my path closely aligns with Spiritualism, or more precisely Spiritism and its view of reincarnation.{{cite tweet|number=1176895596902223872|user=LMorganRichards|title=Quote by Lorin Morgan-Richards about Spiritism #spiritism #spiritualism #spiritualist #psychicmedium #pyschic |date=September 25, 2019}} In relation to his art, Richards states: My imagination helps see the past come to life as if watching a theater production put on by spirits.{{Cite web |url=https://www.denimboulevard.com/2020/04/07/lorin-morgan-richards-western-artist/ |title=Lorin Morgan-Richards Western Artist – Denim Boulevard |access-date=April 7, 2020 |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407161656/https://www.denimboulevard.com/2020/04/07/lorin-morgan-richards-western-artist/ |url-status=dead }}

Works

=Bibliography=

  • Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories (2009) {{ISBN|0985044748}}
  • A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels (2010) {{ISBN|0985044772}}
  • A Little Hard to Swallow (2010) {{ISBN|0997319313}}
  • A Welsh Alphabet (2010), with notes by Peter Anthony Freeman {{ISBN|0983002053}} (in collaboration with other artists)
  • The Terribly Mini Monster Book & a Lesser Known Story About a Rare Benign Belbow (2011) {{ISBN|0983002045}}
  • Me'ma and the Great Mountain (2012), with foreword by Corine Fairbanks {{ISBN|0985044799}}
  • Welsh in the Old West (2015), with foreword by Jude Johnson{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-roots-americas-wild-west-10763096 |title=The Welsh roots of America's Wild West gunslingers revealed |publisher=Wales Online |date=January 20, 2016 |access-date=2016-01-25}} {{ISBN|0983002096}} (in collaboration with other artists)
  • Dark Letter Days: Collected Works (2016) {{ISBN|0997319305}}
  • The Night Speaks to Me: A Posthumous Account of Jim Morrison (2016) {{ISBN|0997319321}}
  • The People of Turtle Island: Book One in the Series (2016) {{ISBN|099731933X}}
  • The Dreaded Summons and Other Misplaced Bills (2017) {{ISBN|0983002061}}
  • Imperfectualism (2020) {{ISBN|9781733287944}}
  • The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain (2020), with foreword by Richard-Lael Lillard {{ISBN|9781733287913}}

=Comic collections=

  • 13 Disturbing Postcards to Send to Your Grandparents (2010) {{ISBN|0983002002}}
  • Memento Mori: The Goodbye Family Album (2017) {{ISBN|0997319348}}
  • Wanted: Dead or Alive...but not stinkin' (2017) {{ISBN|0997319356}}
  • The Goodbye Family Unveiled (2017) {{ISBN|9780997319361}}
  • Down West (2018) {{ISBN|9780983002079}}
  • Nicklesworth: Featuring the Goodbye Family (2018) {{ISBN|9780997319392}}
  • Gallows Humor: Hangin' with the Goodbye Family (2018) {{ISBN|9780997319385}}
  • Dead Man's Hand-kerchief: Dealing with the Goodbye Family (2019) {{ISBN|9780983002086}}
  • The Importance of Being Otis: Undertaking with the Goodbye Family (2019) {{ISBN|9781733287906}}
  • Yippee Ki-Yayenne Mother Pepper: Getting Saucy with the Goodbye Family (2019) {{ISBN|9781733287937}}
  • Pyridine's Fancy: It's a Grave Business with the Goodbye Family (2020) {{ISBN|9781733287975}}[https://twitter.com/LMorganRichards/status/1240667257547542528/photo/1 LorinMorgan-Richards on Twitter: "Cover for the upcoming comic collection due out April 1st, 2020 – 'Pyridine's Fancy: It's a Grave Business with the Goodbye Family' by Lorin ..."]
  • Keeping up with the Boneses: Digging with the Goodbye Family (2020) {{ISBN|978-1733287999}}
  • Family Messings: Getting Dirty with the Goodbye Family (2021) {{ISBN|978-1737222101}}
  • It's Your Funeral: Stitched Up with the Goodbye Family (2022) {{ISBN|978-1737222118}}
  • It Came From the Outhouse: Off the Grid with the Goodbye Family (2024) {{ISBN|978-1737222125}}

=Comic volumes=

  • The Goodbye Family Jewels: Volume 1 (2020) {{ISBN|978-1733287982}}

=As illustrator only=

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin (2012), authored by Robert Browning, colorized by J.A. Pringles{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/437472331?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1 |title=David Edmonds (Lansing, MI)'s review of The Pied Piper of Hamelin |website=Goodreads.com |date=October 19, 2012 |access-date=2017-04-26}}
  • Plop the Raindrop (2013), authored by Kevin Alan Richards

=As Writer only=

  • A Seers Guide to the Haunted Labyrinth (2012), collaborative art book curated by Brian A. Kenny
  • Voices Lleisiau (2023), collaborative art book curated by Nichola Hope, Dan Langford and Wales Week/London

=Web stories=

Richards has created original content and retold classic stories with his illustration for social media.

==Original stories==

  • Sal the Silverfish (2016)
  • The Overcooked Tater Tot (2016)
  • The Sad Lost Doll (2016)
  • The Tiny Adventure of Hairball Man (2016)
  • 12 Days of Krampus (2016)

==Now That's a Silly Goose==

The following are classic stories illustrated by Richards

  • Jack and the Beanstalk (2020)
  • Aesop's Fables (2020)

Discography

=Solo studio albums=

Albums released under the name Elder Moon or Lorin Morgan-Richards

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Year

!Title

1999

|ENKI

2001

|An Occurrence Remembered

2002

|We See But Dimly

2010

|Orpheus

=Compilation albums=

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Year

!Title

2001

|Notes From Thee Real Underground IV (Underground, Inc.)

2002

|Mutations: Tribute to Alice Cooper (Underground, Inc.)

=Audiobooks=

Albums released under the name Lorin Morgan-Richards

class="wikitable"
Year

!Title

2010

|A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels (Read by Jason Shepherd, introduction by Seongje Hwang and Tae Sung Jie)

2012

|Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories (Read by Jason Shepherd, introduction by Seongje Hwang and Tae Sung Jie)

2012

|A Welsh Alphabet (Read by Jason Shepherd)

2018

|The Dreaded Summons and Other Misplaced Bills (Read by Jason Shepherd, introduction by Jay Hwang and Jie TS)

2022

|The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain (Read and foreword by Richard-Lael Lillard)

2023

|Me'ma and the Great Mountain (Read by Jessica Rose Felix, foreword by Corine Fairbanks)

=Collaborative albums=

Albums released with associated acts

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Year

!Title

1994

|1991:94

1998

|Graven Image – Black Lung Cathedral. Released on Jevan Records.

2009

|Graven Image – Early Demos and Live Tracks

=Other Collaborative Recordings=

EPs and Singles released with associated acts

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Year

!Title

2021

|The Goodbye Family, EP, produced and mixed by Chopper Franklin, lyrics by Lorin Morgan-Richards, vocals by Mather Louth and music by the Heathen Apostles.{{cite web|url=https://heathenapostles.bandcamp.com/album/the-goodbye-family-ep|title = The Goodbye Family EP, by Heathen Apostles}} Featuring songs Sew it up, Get Outta Dodge, and Lake of Fire (instrumental). Released on Ratchet Blade Records.

2023

|Gothic Western Haunt, Single, produced and mixed by Chopper Franklin, lyrics by Lorin Morgan-Richards, vocals by Mather Louth and music by Heathen Apostles. Released on Ratchet Blade Records.{{cite web|url=https://heathenapostles.bandcamp.com/track/gothic-western-haunt |title=Gothic Western Haunt | Heathen Apostles |publisher=Heathenapostles.bandcamp.com |date= |accessdate=2023-02-17}}

Filmography

= Film =

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scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

scope="row" |2013

|Do Ye the Little Things in Life: St. David's Day Festival-National Day of Wales 2013

|Self

| A Raven Above Press, documentary short by Lorin Morgan-Richards, featuring Siobhan Owen at the 2013 Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.

scope="row" |2022

| Celt: Live in Hollywood

| Self

| A Raven Above Press, documentary short by Lorin Morgan-Richards, featuring Meinir Gwilym at the 2014 Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival.

scope="row" |2021

| The Mari Lwyd by Lorin Morgan-Richards

| Self

| A Raven Above Press, documentary short by Lorin Morgan-Richards.

scope="row" |2025

| Poor Poor Eldon

| Eldon

| A Raven Above Press, Lorin Morgan-Richards was writer, director, executive producer, and animator.{{cite web | url=https://boldjourney.com/meet-lorin-morgan-richards-2/ | title=Meet Lorin Morgan-Richards | date=July 2, 2024 }} An Imperfectualism Film, featuring music by Textbeak and Joshua Kovarik. World premiere on April 1, 2025 at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.

= Television =

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scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

scope="row" |2015-2016

| TADA TV

| Daddy TADA

| A Raven Above Press.

scope="row" |2020

| The Gentleman Psychic

| Self

| The Gentleman Psychic Productions.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13097518/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1|title = The Gentleman Psychic (TV Series 2020– ) – IMDb|website = IMDb}} Episodes: Jim Morrison Occultist Poet, Addams Family Walking Tour, Vampira.

scope="row" |2021–Present

| The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series

| Otis, Kepla, Reverend Moustache, Barry Dingle, among others

| A Raven Above Press.{{cite web|url=https://www.lorinrichards.com/news.html|title=Lorin Morgan-Richards – News|website=Lorinrichards.com|access-date=2020-03-18}} All episodes: Lorin Morgan-Richards is writer, director, executive producer, and animator.

==Biographies of the West==

Television Docuseries written, produced, and colorized by Lorin Morgan-Richards.

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Release date

!Title

June 22, 2020

|The Will Rogers Story

July 5, 2020

|The Calamity Jane Story

July 19, 2020

|The Chinese American Story

August 9, 2020

|The Billy the Kid Story

August 30, 2020

|The Colonel Allen Allensworth Story

June 24, 2023

|The Lincoln, New Mexico Story

July 1, 2023

|The Bass Reeves Story

July 15, 2023

|The Cabot Yerxa Story

July 22, 2023

|The Annie Oakley Story

August 12, 2023

|The Tiburcio Vasquez Story

January 27, 2024

|The Lotta Crabtree Story

February 10, 2024

|The Pearl Heart Story

March 9, 2024

|The Mary Fields Story

May 4, 2024

|The Black Bart Story

May 18, 2024

|The Wyatt Earp Story

July 20, 2024

|The Iverson Movie Ranch Story

August 10, 2024

|The Yankee Jim Robinson Story

August 24, 2024

|The Clay Allison Story

September 7, 2024

|The Pioneertown Story

September 14, 2024

|The Coulterville Story

September 28, 2024

|The Mariposa Story

October 12, 2024

|The Willie Boy Story

November 2, 2024

|The Corriganville Movie Ranch Story

November 16, 2024

|The Jack Powers Story

November 30, 2024

|The Movieland Frontier Town Story

December 14, 2024

|The Bone Mizell Story

December 28, 2024

|The Hoot Gibson Story

January 18, 2025

|The Helen Stewart and Old Las Vegas Story

February 1, 2025

|The Goodsprings Story

February 22, 2025

|The Paramount Ranch Story

March 7, 2025

|The Jim McKinney Story

April 5, 2025

|The Daggett Story

= Music Video =

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scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

scope="row" |2010

|Lower

|Self

|A Raven Above Press

Awards and nominations

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! Year

! Award

! Category

! Work

! Result

! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

2024

|Hollywood Blood Horror Fest

|Best Dark Comedy

|The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series (Lorin Morgan-Richards)

|{{won}}

|

2024

|Hollywood Blood Horror Fest

|Best Sound Design

|The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series (Nick Gligor, Lorin Morgan-Richards, Heathen Apostles)

|{{won}}

|

2024

|TMFF - The Monthly Film Festival

|Best Short Film

|The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series (Nick Gligor, Lorin Morgan-Richards, Heathen Apostles)

|{{Nominated}}

| {{cite web|url=https://tmff.net/movies/the-goodbye-family/ |title=TMFF|work=tmff.net}}

2024

|The Couch Film Festival

|Best Animation North America

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{Nominated}}

| {{cite web|url=https://couchff.weebly.com/winners.html |title=The Couch Film Festival|work=couchff.weebly.com}}

2024

|One-Reeler short film competition

|Best Animated Short

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{CFinalist}} (Special Mention)

| {{cite web|url=https://www.one-reeler.net/special-mentions-december-2024/ |title=One-Reeler short film competition|work=one-reeler.net}}

2025

|Gothamite Monthly Film Awards

|Best Animated Short

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{won}}

| {{cite web|url=https://gothamitefilmawards.com/winners |title=Gothamite Monthly Film Awards|work=gothamitefilmawards.com}}

2025

|Beverly Hills Film Festival

|Best Animated Short

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{Nominated}}

| {{cite web|url=https://beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/2025-official-selection-tue/#block3 |title=Beverly Hills Film Festival|work=beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com}}

2025

|Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival

|Best Animation Short

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{CFinalist}} (Honorable Mention)

|

2025

|LA Underground Film Forum

|Best Animation

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{CFinalist}} (Honorable Mention)

|

2025

|Alternative Film Festival

|Best Super Short Horror

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{Nominated}}

|

2025

|Denver Monthly Film Awards

|Best Short Film

|Poor Poor Eldon (Lorin Morgan-Richards, Textbeak, Joshua Kovarik)

|{{Nominated}}

| {{cite web|url=https://denverfilmcritics.com/2025/04/dmfa-2025-dmfa-2024-nominees-and-winners/ |title=Denver Monthly Film Awards|work=denverfilmcritics.com}}

See also

References

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