Rickard Sisters
@rickardsisters.com
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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Do people understand what they are saying about themselves, when they denounce people as ‘antifa’? bleedingcool.com/comics/comic...
Comics Artist Elena Mistrello Turned Away At French Border As Antifa
Italian comics artist Elena Mistrello turned away at a French airport for antifascist activism
bleedingcool.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Do people understand what they are saying about themselves, when they denounce people as ‘antifa’? bleedingcool.com/comics/comic...
Who knew a dog could be so useful?
Happy National Collie Day (US)! There are loads of collies in our lives, but the most recent one is fictional
Happy National Collie Day (US)! There are loads of collies in our lives, but the most recent one is fictional
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Who knew a dog could be so useful?
Happy National Collie Day (US)! There are loads of collies in our lives, but the most recent one is fictional
Happy National Collie Day (US)! There are loads of collies in our lives, but the most recent one is fictional
Jip is a very good dog to stand still while Mother dries his toesies
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Jip is a very good dog to stand still while Mother dries his toesies
Should any of you be contemplating Christmas shopping for graphic novels, we have a cheat code for you! Here are the books of the year compiled by the experts at Gosh! Comics goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Gosh! Comics Best of 2025 - Adult
You've been asking, and we have answered! Once again, we merry Gosh! crew have trawled through the releases of 2025 to reel in our absolute faves from the past year. While we look into our crystal bal...
goshlondon.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Should any of you be contemplating Christmas shopping for graphic novels, we have a cheat code for you! Here are the books of the year compiled by the experts at Gosh! Comics goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
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A reminder that "Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt" makes a great gift for the little history buffs in your life.
Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A reminder that "Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt" makes a great gift for the little history buffs in your life.
Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
the kitchen is the heart of the home, and this kitchen is the heart of This Slavery graphic novel
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
the kitchen is the heart of the home, and this kitchen is the heart of This Slavery graphic novel
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This award gives emerging writers a free course, retreat and mentoring. You need to be unpublished but it closes on 30th November so get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
Emerging Writer Award - The Bridge Awards
The Emerging Writer Award is run in partnership with The Bridge Awards. The award winner receives a package including courses, retreat time and mentoring.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This award gives emerging writers a free course, retreat and mentoring. You need to be unpublished but it closes on 30th November so get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
@jordancollver.bsky.social is it you and @rikworth.bsky.social who have a Hocus Pocus cover image with a skull hidden in the negative space? I’ve been looking for it to show Scarlett. (ps congrats on handing in your Pets art, what a great feeling)
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
@jordancollver.bsky.social is it you and @rikworth.bsky.social who have a Hocus Pocus cover image with a skull hidden in the negative space? I’ve been looking for it to show Scarlett. (ps congrats on handing in your Pets art, what a great feeling)
If you wanted to see a Very Good Dog getting a treat, this would be the ideal way to do it - through Bristol’s Camera Obscura
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
If you wanted to see a Very Good Dog getting a treat, this would be the ideal way to do it - through Bristol’s Camera Obscura
Phew! What a big weekend we’ve had @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social with @selfmadehero.bsky.social! We’ve chatted to squillions of lovely people and enjoyed the bubbling and fizzing of creativity all around us
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Phew! What a big weekend we’ve had @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social with @selfmadehero.bsky.social! We’ve chatted to squillions of lovely people and enjoyed the bubbling and fizzing of creativity all around us
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This was a brilliant thing to be a part of. Singing in the smoke-filled weaving shed was incredibly atmospheric. I wish I could have seen the other performers. Go buy their beautiful book if you can!
Last Saturday we took over a cotton mill, and subverted the workplace by filling it with music and art and drama - This Slavery came alive before our eyes…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This was a brilliant thing to be a part of. Singing in the smoke-filled weaving shed was incredibly atmospheric. I wish I could have seen the other performers. Go buy their beautiful book if you can!
Last Saturday we took over a cotton mill, and subverted the workplace by filling it with music and art and drama - This Slavery came alive before our eyes…
rickardsisters.com/news-post/tr...
rickardsisters.com/news-post/tr...
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Last Saturday we took over a cotton mill, and subverted the workplace by filling it with music and art and drama - This Slavery came alive before our eyes…
rickardsisters.com/news-post/tr...
rickardsisters.com/news-post/tr...
Are you coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend? We’d love to see you there!
Come to SelfMadeHero at Comixology D14, enjoy the 1st Graphic Novel Award entries, and 10-12 each day we’ll be there to draw dogs all over your purchases 🐕
Come to SelfMadeHero at Comixology D14, enjoy the 1st Graphic Novel Award entries, and 10-12 each day we’ll be there to draw dogs all over your purchases 🐕
@thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social 2025 starts this time next week!
We'll be at table D14 in Comixology Hall, right next to the First Graphic Novel Award!
We're very happy to be playing host to Gareth Brookes, the
@rickardsisters.com, Alex Taylor, and @abbiebsart.bsky.social!
#thoughtbubble2025
We'll be at table D14 in Comixology Hall, right next to the First Graphic Novel Award!
We're very happy to be playing host to Gareth Brookes, the
@rickardsisters.com, Alex Taylor, and @abbiebsart.bsky.social!
#thoughtbubble2025
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Are you coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend? We’d love to see you there!
Come to SelfMadeHero at Comixology D14, enjoy the 1st Graphic Novel Award entries, and 10-12 each day we’ll be there to draw dogs all over your purchases 🐕
Come to SelfMadeHero at Comixology D14, enjoy the 1st Graphic Novel Award entries, and 10-12 each day we’ll be there to draw dogs all over your purchases 🐕
Thank you SO much to every single person who took part in or attended Trouble At Mill yesterday - everyone had an absolute riot, and every single one of you played a vital role in bringing it about
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Thank you SO much to every single person who took part in or attended Trouble At Mill yesterday - everyone had an absolute riot, and every single one of you played a vital role in bringing it about
It’s Trouble At Mill day! We’re all ready for action, set-up went smoothly and we absolutely didn’t cause any drama or get into trouble 😬🔥
We can’t wait to see you all for a noisy riot later!
We can’t wait to see you all for a noisy riot later!
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It’s Trouble At Mill day! We’re all ready for action, set-up went smoothly and we absolutely didn’t cause any drama or get into trouble 😬🔥
We can’t wait to see you all for a noisy riot later!
We can’t wait to see you all for a noisy riot later!
Today we’re journeying North to our ancestral homelands…
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Today we’re journeying North to our ancestral homelands…
It’s *so good* to see to hopeful news from America, having become used to waking up to new horrors every morning.
Democracy, civil connectedness and voters can defeat fascism.
The future hasn’t been decided yet, we can change course by taking action 👏
Democracy, civil connectedness and voters can defeat fascism.
The future hasn’t been decided yet, we can change course by taking action 👏
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It’s *so good* to see to hopeful news from America, having become used to waking up to new horrors every morning.
Democracy, civil connectedness and voters can defeat fascism.
The future hasn’t been decided yet, we can change course by taking action 👏
Democracy, civil connectedness and voters can defeat fascism.
The future hasn’t been decided yet, we can change course by taking action 👏
Happy 65th anniversary of our grandpa getting into trouble with his boss…
How a book that began as a scourge of the establishment became, in the government's words, "an important part of our nation's history".
It's the 65th anniversary of Penguin winning the Lady Chatterley trial (they had 200,000 copies ready to go). I wrote about it a few years ago:
It's the 65th anniversary of Penguin winning the Lady Chatterley trial (they had 200,000 copies ready to go). I wrote about it a few years ago:
The book that changed Britain: why the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial still matters 60 years later
D. H. Lawrence’s classic novel was his attempt to “make the sex relations valid and precious, instead of shameful”; the court case it prompted, and its revolutionary result, now stand as moments of na...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Happy 65th anniversary of our grandpa getting into trouble with his boss…
Before we announce the winner of #HowManyHorses, we need to honour some wonderful runners and riders…
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Before we announce the winner of #HowManyHorses, we need to honour some wonderful runners and riders…
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Not long til @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social now! So looking forward to this panel on Sunday afternoon.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Not long til @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social now! So looking forward to this panel on Sunday afternoon.
Final day of voting for our #HowManyHorses giveaway!
There’s still time to enter your estimate and WIN a signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery. Follow us, share & tell us #HowManyHorses you think Scarlett drew - the closest guess submitted by midnight tonight wins!
There’s still time to enter your estimate and WIN a signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery. Follow us, share & tell us #HowManyHorses you think Scarlett drew - the closest guess submitted by midnight tonight wins!
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Final day of voting for our #HowManyHorses giveaway!
There’s still time to enter your estimate and WIN a signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery. Follow us, share & tell us #HowManyHorses you think Scarlett drew - the closest guess submitted by midnight tonight wins!
There’s still time to enter your estimate and WIN a signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery. Follow us, share & tell us #HowManyHorses you think Scarlett drew - the closest guess submitted by midnight tonight wins!
Have you sent in your guess yet? Tell us #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN this signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & submit your estimate - the closest guess wins!
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Have you sent in your guess yet? Tell us #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN this signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & submit your estimate - the closest guess wins!
I know we’ve been counting horses all week for #HowManyHorses, but let’s
take a moment to appreciate the *real* main character of This Slavery - the scene stealer Jip, the collie-cross
take a moment to appreciate the *real* main character of This Slavery - the scene stealer Jip, the collie-cross
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I know we’ve been counting horses all week for #HowManyHorses, but let’s
take a moment to appreciate the *real* main character of This Slavery - the scene stealer Jip, the collie-cross
take a moment to appreciate the *real* main character of This Slavery - the scene stealer Jip, the collie-cross
You have until this Saturday to guess #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & give us a number - the closest guess wins!
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
You have until this Saturday to guess #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & give us a number - the closest guess wins!