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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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hbd Annie Kenney (1879)

this dog is here tell you facts about his special interest, radical activists with spicy lives, indulge him
September 13, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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real sisters talking about fictional sisters

This Slavery graphic novel tells the tale of Rachel and Hester, who take very different approaches to survival but never abandon one another
September 9, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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Bert the unwaged apprentice mixing toxic lead to make paint in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. France banned its use in 1909 (for the health of the painters). The UK banned it in 1992.
A series of 8 panels from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel. 1. A barrel of white lead 2. Bert opens it and the powder escapes 3. He scoops the powers out by hand 4. He’s bent right over inside the barrel to get the last bit out 5. He’s bent tips the powder into a big vat 6. He returns the empty barrel to the dray 7. He adds other ingredients to the paint and stirs 8. He’s bent double, saying “it’s just one of my belly aches” Poor Bert will surely go mad with lead poisoning, and then be just the right age to serve in WWI 😢
September 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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A little bit of character design, which always has to include what people do for a living and elements of their home life
September 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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What have PG Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, Bob Monkhouse and Nigel Farage got in common?

They all went to this fancy school, Dulwich College.

On this day in 1913, the school was subject to an outrageous arson attack 🔥…
A stock photo of one of the UK’s most expensive boarding schools. It’s in South London. If it looks familiar, it’s a filming location for both Legally Blonde and Lara Croft Tomb Raider - nice to see strong women disrupting a boys school hehe
September 5, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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Who wouldn’t enjoy a joyous jammy welcome like this?
A panel from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, showing a baby in a high-chair welcoming a man home. It has jammy toast in each hand. There is jam on the tablecloth, the baby’s face, and in its hair. In the background, a woman tends to the stove-fire.
September 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Today is brought to you by the letter D - draw faster!
September 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Four years ago, we were marking up our 1910 map of Great Harwood, preparing to go location scouting for This Slavery graphic novel.
Sophie colouring in bodies of water on the map with a blue pencil Scarlett making a list of locations to visit, using the map to guide us about what was there in 1910 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’
September 1, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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The morning after the night before…

from our first graphic novel, Mann’s Best Friend
Terry Mann is asleep. A chink of harsh morning light crosses his face Terry wakes from his drunken slumber. He knows everything is Not Okay Terry remembers the full horror of his behaviour the night before Terry sits up in someone else’s bed, drinking tea from someone else’s mug, head in hands. What has he done?
August 31, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Have you ever been to Rice Lane City Farm? It’s the final resting place of Robert Tressell who wrote The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, as well as some lovely animals 🐐 🐖 🦆
August 30, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Would you like to hear about keeping fit, hedge-meat, and how pelicans receive bad news?
These are among the unlikely topics we strayed upon in our lovely chat with @thingsbydan.co.uk on Make It Then Tell Everybody:
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August 25, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Who comes? Lo! An Amazon!
#LoAnAmazon is the new graphic biography of literary visionary and women's rights trailblazer #MaryWollstonecraft, from the legendary Mary and Bryan Talbot!
Out in ONE MONTH!

🔗 selfmadehero.com/books/lo-an-amazon-the-interesting-narrative-of-the-life-of-mary-wollstonecraft
August 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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This seems like a useful and relevant concept: Trojan horse propaganda
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 16
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
August 16, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Wrote something about comedy and protest politics.

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Funny business, politics.
On Count Binface and Nigel Farage and how comedy underpins a lot of supposedly serious politics.
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August 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Today at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social!

Come, let us rant about GenAI and all its bullshit wankery.
👹🖕🤖

Also on a panel just after - “can comics change the world?” - with @myfanwytristram.bsky.social @rickardsisters.com and @richjohnston.bsky.social 💥
kitsuneart.bsky.social kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · Aug 2
📆 Sunday 9th of August!
@captioncomicfest.bsky.social

Panel: Small Press vs AI

Absolutely honoured to join @petetrainor.fyi @streakofpith.bsky.social and @karriefransman.bsky.social on this talk!

📍Seacourt Hall, Oxford
⏰ 2-3pm

Join us and let’s rant about AI!
A rendition of Jos Speybrouck “the Archangel Michael” drawn by KitsuneArt in pink and blue, with a modern version of Michael slaying three robotic snakes labelled as the three most famous AI programs. Text read: Caption comic festival panel. Small press vs AI. Pete Trainor, Hannah Berry, Karrie Fransman, Kitsuneart. Chair Amy Letts. Sunday 9th August. 2-3pm. Seacourt Hall, Botley, Oxford OX2 9TH, UK.
August 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Imagining what life might have been like if we hadn’t had to find a disability-friendly way to work…

We have such a good time working together, and having each other really helps with the daily grind of pain, inconvenience and fatigue that our condition brings
August 9, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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@levparikian.bsky.social I’m reading Light Rains Sometimes Fall, along with the seasons.

Is your camera roll full of butterflies and moths? Might you be persuaded to show us a handful of common garden friends, with their names? I have no clue what I’m looking at 🦋
August 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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This was really interesting, I learned so much. Not least that Thomas Piketty is pronounced to rhyme with ‘spaghetti’. The first of many mind-blowing ideas
boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 5
LEGENDARY ECONOMIST THOMAS PIKETTY IS ON TODAY'S EPISODE OF BOLD POLITICS. BILLIONAIRES HATE TO SEE HIM COMING

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August 5, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Would you like to WIN a set of 4 Rickard Sisters tea towels? All you have to do is

🏖️ come to Whitstable
🎨 find the Horsebridge gallery
🎟️ buy a raffle ticket at our free talk*
🤞 be lucky

See you there on Thursday evening?

* £ to Pilgrims Hospices
August 5, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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What on earth would possess us to think about - never mind draw - a naked Trump?

And what’s Timothy Claypole got to do with anything?

To find out, get yourself a copy of @selfmadehero.bsky.social Count Binface Comic Book, out on Thursday 6th, preorders from @goshcomics.bsky.social 10% to Shelter
A close up crop of our entry to the Count Binface Comic Book, showing a beatific Trump wearing nothing but a golden crown 👑 A close up crop of our entry to the Count Binface Comic Book, showing Timothy Claypole, the Rent-a-Ghost jester, pointing at his own face A close up crop of our entry to the Count Binface Comic Book, showing a balloon tie and the words “the power lies with us! Anyone can do it” The cover of SelfMadeHero’s Count Binface Comic Book, listing the 30+ comic art creators who contributed content
August 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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We’re coming to Whitstable on Thursday and then Oxford at the weekend - will any of you be there to say hello?

Full details of all our shenanigans at RickardSisters.com
August 3, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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that feeling when your brother and sister gang up on you… 🐝
August 2, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Do we think Mamdani has read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists?

This is a key step in the book’s proposals for a better future: government stores selling the necessities of life at affordable prices
A full page of THE Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, depicting a futurist style woman with groceries, as part of a described ‘better way’. The text reads: “State-owned shops will supply state employees with the necessities of life at the lowest possible prices. At first the stace wil buy from private manufacturers, in huge quantities to get things cheap. There won't be any advertising. The sole aim will be to supply goods at low prices, so they will be cheaper than profit-making private stores. The national shops will be just for those in public service, as they won't take metal money. At first, everyone will be paid in metal money, but public servants could opt to be paid all or part in tokens for the national shops, hotels restaurants, and so on. The national shops will sell practically everything for low prices, so it wont be long before people will prefer tokens. Anyone unemployed and willing to work will be employed cultivating land or making food, boots, clothing, furniture, and all the necessities and comforts of life.” 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.
August 1, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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🚨🗑️ new @countbinface.bsky.social comic drops 06.08.26 🗑️🚨
from @selfmadehero.bsky.social with 10% going to @sheltercharity.bsky.social

Pre-order NOW from @goshcomics.bsky.social

Crafted from contributions by 36 comic creators, including…
A book cover with a large cartoon Binface in a powerful pose. The Count Binface Comic Book with 36 contributors listed. Here goes: Nick Abadzis, Krent Able, Steven Appleby, Andrew Attwell, Rachael Ball, Becky Barnicoat, Henny Beaumont, Hannah Berry, Abbigayle Bircham & Bobby Joseph, Paul Ashley Brown, Grazia Caleo & Louis Netter, Darryl Cunningham & Jonathan Edwards, Dix, Kate Evans, Babak Ganjei, Fraser Geesin, ILYA, JAKe Detonator, Rich Johnston, Rebecca K. Jones, Jonesy, Dave McKean, Peter Morey, Rob Murray, Woodrow Phoenix, Anna Readman, Scarlett & Sophie Rickard, Martin Rowson, Mark Stafford, Bryan Talbot, Edward Taylor, Myfanwy Tristram A very zoomed in glimpse of our pages of the Count Binface comic, here showing the Count himself, celebrating in front of a somewhat demonic looking Farage holding a pint. Above Farage the letters FASCI appear before being cropped by the edge of the frame
July 31, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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When we adapted This Slavery into a graphic novel, we set the action in the town where the writer, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, lived and worked. That meant several joyous trips to Great Harwood in Lancashire - including this one after the book was finished ☔️
July 29, 2026 at 5:25 AM