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Sisters who make graphic novels together including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists & No Surrender with SelfMadeHero 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally 🔥This Slavery out now!🔥

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 3h

Oh that’s so good -all hail the group chat 🥹 there’s nothing cosier than seeing your kid has great mates

Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 5h

tbh I’m not sure it is, but we are having a great time

Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 6h

Some people will create 3x 360+ page graphic novels rather than go to therapy…

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 20h

Stories true and fantastical, new and old - take a look at our Spring 2026 lineup!

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 1d

History chicks might enjoy our Instagram stories (@theRickardSisters) where today Scarlett has shown us round a room with loads of fun facts

A screenshot of an Instagram story showing an annotated still image from This Slavery graphic novel, labelling the furniture with its style and provenance

A screenshot of an Instagram story showing an annotated still image from This Slavery graphic novel, showing writing materials on the mantlepiece and explaining about dippy pens

A screenshot of an Instagram story showing an annotated still image from This Slavery graphic novel, showing a chamberstick on the mantlepeice and explaining about lighting your way to bed

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 1d

Bonjour tout le monde!

Here’s all the chapter headers from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists magically becoming French before your very eyes

Les Philanthropes aux Poches Percées is available from Delcourt

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 2d

Fascism and the far right seek to dehumanise, and deny civil rights to whole categories of people.
We’ve been here before, and can use lessons from the past to help defend and protect our friends and communities.
Survival is resistance, never give up ✊

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 3d

🔥 burn it all to the ground 🔥

This Slavery graphic novel is punctuated by fires, from cosy hearths to destructive disasters - all the better to warm you in the autumn chill

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 3d

We wish we could make more spaces for them 😢

Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 3d

Trouble at Mill - our noisy celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and This Slavery graphic novel - is sold out 😮

The poster for Trouble at Mill, but with a big SOLD OUT banner over it. The date is 8th November, and the place is Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, but I’m not sure that helps you now

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 4d

Can someone *please* tell me why the Silenus at Petworth House has a hairy little tail?

Here you can see our serious approach to historical research - we look forward to being properly educated in the comments!

Thank you to @nationaltrust.org.uk for having us

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 6d

Drawing the two sisters from This Slavery

(I’m so glad my children are not on BlueSky to see this 🫣 we might have to block them on Instagram)

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 6d

Well whenever we’ve been there (one weekend in June) it was positively sweltering

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 6d

Well you *are* a discerning viewer! Belper offered tropical conditions with mill backdrops this summer, so thank you for having us if that’s your home town.
Glad you like the look of the book ☺️

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 7d

How do you make a person stand out in a crowd?

Scarlett explains how she uses colour, movement and position on the page to help the reader understand the narrative in a busy page

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 7d

Those hats!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7d

Teenage life, above Shaw, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 7d

"This never-more-timely tale of the eternal injustice and biologically apologist is superbly readable, dramatically enticing and should be compulsory viewing for all – as long as we don’t force anyone…" - Now Read This! on #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com!

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#selfmadehero

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 7d

You can get This Slavery (and our other SelfMadeHero titles) from all good bookstores, your public library, or even the all-seeing sprawling corporation with fast delivery

A book cover: on a dark inky blue background a five women stand together holding up an ornate protest banner which reads Constance Maud’s No Surrender, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. They are dressed in Edwardian clothing and VOTES FOR WOMEN sashes. The girl in the centre, who wears the shawl of a working woman, holds a loud-hailer

A book cover: on a bottle green background a man is painting an ornate sign which reads Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. A young lad sits by his feet and is passing him a cup of tea in a tin mug. An older man in a painty bowler hat is reading a comic.

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 7d

Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!

It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.

It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 9d

This is what books are made of - a squillion tiny decisions on a page

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 10d

If you are in USA or Canada, please ask for This Slavery in your local independent bookstore or public library! And if you see it in the wild, please share photos with us!

Publication date for North America is this Tuesday, and it’s gone down well in the month it’s been out in Britain & Ireland.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 10d

Oh Matthew thank you so much! We do value your expert opinion 😊

And it’s so great to find you again on here - we haven’t seen you since the old days in the other place

Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 11d

You know how sometimes you glimpse your previous self in a photo or something and get a shock?
I can’t get over how mean I (the writer) was to Scarlett (the artist) in this exchange about this panel of No Surrender graphic novel 🫣 she puts up with so much

Screen shot of texts between Scarlett & Sophie in the drawing phase of No Surrender graphic novel:

Sc: It's BONKERS
So: It really is
Sc: I tell you what's bonkers
Sc: Drawing 40-60,000 women
So: Hahaha just follow the instructions the writer sent you, it'll be fine
So: See you in 10 years
Sc: I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the Pankhursts for insisting everyone wear white
So: Why did they do that
Sc: If only the memo had extended to the crowd
So: Apart from to save your trouble
Sc:To make it easier for me 110 years later

A full page street scene from No Surrender showing the head of the procession on Women’s Sunday 1908, the biggest public demonstration London had ever seen. There are hundreds of individual women crowded in, most of whom are wearing white.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 11d

This looks cool 👇

Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 11d

Thrilled to share that @julesscheele.bsky.social is adapting Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a graphic novel biography with Avery Hill! From Elizabethan courts to the present day, a timeless journey reimagined in comics. ✨📚

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