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Scarlett & Sophie: sisters who make graphic novels together, including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists & No Surrender with SelfMadeHero
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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 🐕
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@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
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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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
A group photo of the cast and crew taken in Queen Street Textile Museum. The image includes a great deal of Rickards (parents, siblings, children, spouses) two choirs (Commoners and Clarion) actors from Burnley Youth Theatre, ballad singer Jennifer Reid, Pendle Radicals, film crew, podcast crew, light & sound and mill staff. An absolutely fantastic community of creatives!
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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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!
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Today we’re journeying North to our ancestral homelands…
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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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 👏
‘The train of hope’ from the final pages of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, set against the glowing skies of a socialist utopia
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Happy 65th anniversary of our grandpa getting into trouble with his boss…
john-self.bsky.social John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 8d
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:
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
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Before we announce the winner of #HowManyHorses, we need to honour some wonderful runners and riders…
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Not long til @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social now! So looking forward to this panel on Sunday afternoon.
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE SEQUENTIALISED SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2025 1:30 PM 2:30 PM PANEL ROOM 1, QUEEN'S SUITE HARROGATE CONVENTION CENTRE (MAP) GOOGLE CALENDAR ICS The world is falling apart, and protesters are increasingly being silenced -- but they can't take away our right to draw comics! Myfanwy Tristram, in conversation with Joe Sacco, R.E. Burke, Michael D Kennedy and Karrie Fransman poses the question: how can comics bring about real change, resistance... even revolution?
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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!
A child plays with a toy horse, repeating words she’s heard adults use: “Stand over, Dobbin! Pull, yer lazy buddy thing or I’ll punch thy guts in’”
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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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
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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
A busy kitchen scene. Hester is spoon feeding Grandma in the foreground, closely monitored by Jip the dog. In the background, Jack and Rachel are reading Marx at the table Jack says “Rachel, I was coming to find you, I —“ Jip greets him enthusiastically Rachel is outside the grand gates of Barstock’s house. Jip is pissing on the gatepost Jip is having his toes dried by Mother, who’s telling him to hold still
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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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
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Guess #HowManyHorses in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & tell us how many horses you think Scarlett might have squeezed into 368 pages of the book - the closest guess
wins!
A scene from This Slavery graphic novel, showing a drunk man staggering up a cobbled street at night, towards a mounted policeman A crowd of workers spill out of a mill at the end of a working day. A man is up a ladder lighting the streetlights. One of the workers seems to be a little horse
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Welcome to The North…
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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We’ve been playing a silly game on here and on Instagram & TikTok -
#HowManyHorses are there in This Slavery graphic novel? You can WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & tell us how many you think she dared to draw. ✍️
Here are some stats on the number of birds she drew…
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Lots of the horses in This Slavery have jobs, but only one has a name and rank. This is Dobson, the trusty steed of Sergeant O’Neil #HowManyHorses
A scene from This Slavery graphic novel: a demonstration being broken up, in the background a mounted police officer is ordering a female speaker to leave a makeshift platform. The crowd shout FREE SPEECH! A panel from the same scene, in which the officer shouts “This meeting cannot go on” from his horseback position, while the female speaker looks determined and her dog growls and snarls from beneath the table upon which she stands to address the crowd A scene from This Slavery, showing a dark and lonely street hosting some police aggression a la Orgreave. A picketer is about to be smashed around the head with a passing truncheon, wielded by a mounted policeman In a rare moment of humility, O’Neil and Dobson look at what they’ve done, and wonder if they’ve gone too far…
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Let me show you my cotton sausage!

This is @nationaltrust.org.uk Quarry Bank Mill in Styal Cheshire. If you know more about the looming balls, please enlighten us…
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop?

If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around!

#SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop

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picture of the front entrance to an Independent Bookshop with books in the window and in the background
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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If you are looking through This Slavery to assess #HowManyHorses while enjoying a Friday night chippy tea, you might notice the extraordinary amount of tea-swilling that goes on in this book. There are an epic 124 teacups to enjoy…
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, showing Jip the dog sniffing a paper wrapped parcel of chip shop chips in a woman’s arms A scene from This Slavery in which Mother offers her girls a cup of tea and tries to cheer them up A mug of tea being put down with a CLUNK and spilling all over
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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You know how we’ve been trying to persuade you all to go to Great Harwood? Well look at this bit in the Guardian about the joys of nearby Nelson…

Thank you for the mention (and the link!) Chris 🔥✊
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Guess #HowManyHorses in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy!

Just follow us, share & tell us how many horses you reckon Scarlett drew in the book - the closest guess wins!
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel showing a woman walking alone up a quiet road in the moonlight. There is a tiny horse outside a nearby farmhouse Another panel from This Slavery: a bird’s eye view of an impending riot! Mounted police gather in the shadow of the mill chimney, while around the terraced street corner, striking workers are amassing with signs and banners
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Have we ever told you how great Great Harwood is?

You can see a version of it in This Slavery graphic novel, but the real thing should be beheld in all its splendour

🫖
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A good editor! I don't edit graphic novels (special skills required), but I've queried countless timelines and dates, not to mention researching stuff like, Do those flowers bloom at that time of year? These illustrations are just gorgous too! 💜 #AmEditing
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It turns out that sometimes we need a professional to remind us what time of day it is…

Graphic novelling is a team sport, and the vital role of Editor mustn’t be overlooked
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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WIN this signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery graphic novel!
Have you entered yet? Follow us, share & tell us #HowManyHorses you think
Scarlett drew in the book - closest wins, and we’re going to give you some
clues later…
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Things are not what they seem in the art of Thomas Deininger.
October 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM