The Goodbye Family

The Goodbye Family are a fictional family of undertakers from the Weird West world of author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards. The Goodbye Family comprises Pyridine Goodbye, matriarch and mortician, Otis, father and driver of the hearse, their child Orphie, who has the dual role of gravedigger and self-appointed town Sheriff, and their pets: Ouiji the cat, a tarantula named Dorian, and Midnight their horse.

Since 2009, the Goodbye’s have appeared in both single panel comic and literature as part of the Great Mountain books by Richards that begin with Me’ma and the Great Mountain. The humor of the Goodbye Family is typically macabre, often satirizing industrialization and rules of authority.

Beginning in 2009, Richards began producing the Goodbye Family as one off cards after an inspiring trip to France and Wales. Richards envisioned Orphie, the daughter and primary character, on the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral sitting with gargoyles, while her parents Otis tried to board a train with a shrunken head, and Pyridine publicly sewed a cadaver in Cardiff. Subsequent single panel comics and merchandise were made of each character but prior to delving into their individual identities. In 2012, A Raven Above Press released Richards novel Me’ma and the Great Mountain, about an indigenous girl that overcomes ghoulish spirits to save her people. Along her journey she meets Hollis Sorrow, a friendly character who is encased in a casket made by the Goodbye Family, marking the first mention in literature of the Goodbye Family. In 2015, Steamkat, an online comic distributor, weekly featured The Goodbye Family comic, and in the following year Richards released two book collections about the family.

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