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Scarlett & Sophie: sisters who make graphic novels together, including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, No Surrender and This Slavery with SelfMadeHero
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Macclesfield Silk Museum is FULL of surprises!

Here are all the bits that were not silk - Content Warning for taxidermy and human remains, we were not kidding about the surprises…
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Follow Buffy everyone!

She’s a British eco-socialist artist who does magical things like grow actual food and knit actual clothes. I’m wearing something she made right now. She has an adorable collie dog. She gave birth to us both.

Add her to the friends who live in your pocket!
I left Twitter behind this morning, a long overdue move on my part.
I'm done with that toxic place
I've simply walked away leaving a message for my 10k followers to join me here. I've no idea how many of them are even real any more.
I've made good friends over 10yrs
The good ones will find me here🤞
January 10, 2026 at 10:20 AM
To resist oppression, and continue to protest for basic civil rights in the face of powerful authorities, is heroic.

Every change begins with a small group of determined citizens. The future has not been decided yet, let’s make it better than the past.

Let’s stick up for one another ✊
January 8, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Join us on a field trip to a scene from This Slavery graphic novel. It turns out if you draw first and visit later, you get lots of surprises (including a mistake a whole quarter of a mile long)
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM
this is a health and safety broadcast for artists and illustrators:
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Have you ever thought about where silk comes from?

Come round Macclesfield Silk Museum with us for a rapid review: from wiggly worm to the president of Ghana…
January 3, 2026 at 8:50 AM
In November, @commonerschoir.bsky.social sang their new song This Slavery in Queen Street Mill textile museum as part of Trouble At Mill - there was barely a dry eye in the house
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Happy New Year!

2025 was the year This Slavery came out, and here is a glimpse of the launch event Trouble At Mill. There are more, longer films at RickardSisters.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Merry Christmas Eve eve folks - time to stop wrapping, for tomorrow we peel the spuds

Wishing the smoothest of journeys to all travellers, and the jolliest of customers to all retail and hospitality workers
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is looking for book reviewers.

https://downthetubes.net/journal-of-graphic-novels-and-comics-seeks-reviewers/
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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It’s time for some good news! 🌱 🌍 (1/3)
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How’s your Christmas shopping going?

Would these tea towels help at all?

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Cheering Teatowels
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December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Happy Birthday Aunt Jane!

Here’s that time we went for a nosy round her house, it’s a great day out
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Here we are researching and immersing ourselves in cotton weaving life, for the making of This Slavery graphic novel

We’re at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, where we went on to hold the launch event when the book was made
December 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
For the avoidance of doubt, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel is definitely a Christmas movie - it has a whole chapter dedicated to wholesome family festivities
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
**this video contains spoilers** but tbf this story was first published 100 years ago

Here’s an introduction to This Slavery graphic novel’s stoic and steadfast sister

(and a terrified dog)
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Mince pie season is the best, and I for one think they should be freed from their December shackles and made available all year round 🥧
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is well expressed 👇

Click through (if you have the stomach) for the screenshot of the shameful Home Office tweet that prompted it
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
What would you like for dinner? An overbearing, aggressive husband, judgy guests and an apologetic mother? Mmmhm delicious

This dinner party is from our graphic novel This Slavery. Scarlett takes about 1 day to draw a page like this, working from very rough paper roughs you can see at the start
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Who knew one page could contain quite so much? Zooming in on the overhead spreads in This Slavery graphic novel is full of surprises…
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“130 steep and slippery steps in confined spaces” - you can’t put us off exploring that easily

This is the mysteriously named Giant’s Cave under the Camera Obscura overlooking the best bridge in Britain
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Anyone buying books from us this week is getting festive recycled packaging, instead of regular recycled packaging 🎄
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Here’s a crowd scene from This Slavery for you to pinch and zoom - we loved setting fire to everything for this book 🔥
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Wanna see Robert Tressell’s original manuscript in his own handwriting? It’s on display at @lselibrary.bsky.social near Lincoln’s Inn
I popped into @lselibrary.bsky.social at the weekend and was delighted to see a copy of @rickardsisters.com graphic novel adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists included in the Combining Efforts exhibition.
The exhibition commemorates the...
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Combining efforts: 200 years of trade union history - exhibition until 31/01/26 | The Freelance
Worth dropping in, says Mick Holder
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December 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
December the first means opening the doors on your advent calendar and getting excited about a tiny drawing of a shepherd

Or open this thread to see Chapter One headers evolve through three books…
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM