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
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
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Here’s the section from This Slavery where our hero Rachel calculates how her own labour contributes to empirical oppression
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February 14, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Here’s the section from This Slavery where our hero Rachel calculates how her own labour contributes to empirical oppression
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Please enjoy this fabulous story 👇
27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵
February 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Please enjoy this fabulous story 👇
Here’s a moment from the scripting stage of This Slavery graphic novel where I was tripping over my own adaptation choices, and had to make repairs.
Please note the pingu ‘seal of approval’ on my laptop made for me by someone who really understands motivation
Please note the pingu ‘seal of approval’ on my laptop made for me by someone who really understands motivation
February 13, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Here’s a moment from the scripting stage of This Slavery graphic novel where I was tripping over my own adaptation choices, and had to make repairs.
Please note the pingu ‘seal of approval’ on my laptop made for me by someone who really understands motivation
Please note the pingu ‘seal of approval’ on my laptop made for me by someone who really understands motivation
This is Lancashire’s Elizabethan Gawthorpe Hall, with a radical textile connection and some excellent contributions from Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (famous for the Houses of Parliament)
One feature appears prominently in This Slavery graphic novel but I’ll give you my hat if you can name it
One feature appears prominently in This Slavery graphic novel but I’ll give you my hat if you can name it
February 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
This is Lancashire’s Elizabethan Gawthorpe Hall, with a radical textile connection and some excellent contributions from Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (famous for the Houses of Parliament)
One feature appears prominently in This Slavery graphic novel but I’ll give you my hat if you can name it
One feature appears prominently in This Slavery graphic novel but I’ll give you my hat if you can name it
The most vulnerable people in society need to be listened to with care and loving kindness
Who thought it was okay to automate social work? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Who thought it was okay to automate social work? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children
Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The most vulnerable people in society need to be listened to with care and loving kindness
Who thought it was okay to automate social work? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Who thought it was okay to automate social work? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A sequence of panels from No Surrender graphic novel (2022, adapted from a novel written in 1911) in which a Labour politician has a revelation about wealthy sexual abusers
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
A sequence of panels from No Surrender graphic novel (2022, adapted from a novel written in 1911) in which a Labour politician has a revelation about wealthy sexual abusers
There are so many behind-the-scenes stages of making a graphic novel.
Here is an example of the many ways the EDITOR improves the quality of the finished product. Making books is such a team sport
Here is an example of the many ways the EDITOR improves the quality of the finished product. Making books is such a team sport
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
There are so many behind-the-scenes stages of making a graphic novel.
Here is an example of the many ways the EDITOR improves the quality of the finished product. Making books is such a team sport
Here is an example of the many ways the EDITOR improves the quality of the finished product. Making books is such a team sport
Have you ever been to Petworth House in West Sussex? It’s huge and bursting with art, including some famous ones.
We had a great time, and thanks to @nationaltrust.org.uk we can all sniff the aristocratic toys whenever we like! This art belongs to the people ✊
We had a great time, and thanks to @nationaltrust.org.uk we can all sniff the aristocratic toys whenever we like! This art belongs to the people ✊
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Have you ever been to Petworth House in West Sussex? It’s huge and bursting with art, including some famous ones.
We had a great time, and thanks to @nationaltrust.org.uk we can all sniff the aristocratic toys whenever we like! This art belongs to the people ✊
We had a great time, and thanks to @nationaltrust.org.uk we can all sniff the aristocratic toys whenever we like! This art belongs to the people ✊
Like many of you, we dumped Twitter when it became a fascist hellscape.
We started a Substack as an alternative, and then *that* became a fascist hellscape so we stopped using it.
Then this weekend The Guardian reminded us to actually do something
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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
We started a Substack as an alternative, and then *that* became a fascist hellscape so we stopped using it.
Then this weekend The Guardian reminded us to actually do something
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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Like many of you, we dumped Twitter when it became a fascist hellscape.
We started a Substack as an alternative, and then *that* became a fascist hellscape so we stopped using it.
Then this weekend The Guardian reminded us to actually do something
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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
We started a Substack as an alternative, and then *that* became a fascist hellscape so we stopped using it.
Then this weekend The Guardian reminded us to actually do something
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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
This Slavery review in @mstaronline.bsky.social was a nice surprise
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...
Women and class consciousness
This Slaveryby Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, graphic novel by Scarlett and Sophie RickardSelfMadeHero £18.99ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH a native of Lancashire, was the first working-class woman in Britain to p...
morningstaronline.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 7:44 AM
This Slavery review in @mstaronline.bsky.social was a nice surprise
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...
What’s the main difference between you and your siblings?
For us it’s the lines 🗒️
For us it’s the lines 🗒️
February 3, 2026 at 8:56 AM
What’s the main difference between you and your siblings?
For us it’s the lines 🗒️
For us it’s the lines 🗒️
Please share your podcast recommendations!
There’s too much news at the moment, and we all deserve to have something interesting to listen to in between. What are your favourites?
There’s too much news at the moment, and we all deserve to have something interesting to listen to in between. What are your favourites?
February 2, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Please share your podcast recommendations!
There’s too much news at the moment, and we all deserve to have something interesting to listen to in between. What are your favourites?
There’s too much news at the moment, and we all deserve to have something interesting to listen to in between. What are your favourites?
Does your house look like this 📶
or like this ♒️
or like this 📈
or maybe even like this 🏘️?
or like this ♒️
or like this 📈
or maybe even like this 🏘️?
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Does your house look like this 📶
or like this ♒️
or like this 📈
or maybe even like this 🏘️?
or like this ♒️
or like this 📈
or maybe even like this 🏘️?
Do you know how I can tell this will be terrible without clicking on a Telegraph link? Because the ‘lucky few’ won’t be using it, will they? ‘AI tutors’ will be for the poorest kids only. What could possibly go wrong…
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Do you know how I can tell this will be terrible without clicking on a Telegraph link? Because the ‘lucky few’ won’t be using it, will they? ‘AI tutors’ will be for the poorest kids only. What could possibly go wrong…
Four fictional characters who would definitely defect to Reform
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Four fictional characters who would definitely defect to Reform
Each year on Holocaust Memorial Day we invite our friends to follow AuschwitzMemorial.bsky.social, as a poignant and moving daily reminder of the horrors.
Recently I have included fun little arch references to current events. This year is different
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Recently I have included fun little arch references to current events. This year is different
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Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social)
Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.or...
AuschwitzMemorial.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Each year on Holocaust Memorial Day we invite our friends to follow AuschwitzMemorial.bsky.social, as a poignant and moving daily reminder of the horrors.
Recently I have included fun little arch references to current events. This year is different
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Recently I have included fun little arch references to current events. This year is different
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An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 AM
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Can you imagine a whole graphic novel expressed in the form of song? You can now!
Here’s @commonerschoir.bsky.social singing their original composition This Slavery in Queen Street Mill, Lancashire
Here’s @commonerschoir.bsky.social singing their original composition This Slavery in Queen Street Mill, Lancashire
January 22, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Can you imagine a whole graphic novel expressed in the form of song? You can now!
Here’s @commonerschoir.bsky.social singing their original composition This Slavery in Queen Street Mill, Lancashire
Here’s @commonerschoir.bsky.social singing their original composition This Slavery in Queen Street Mill, Lancashire
Reposted by Rickard Sisters
Review! Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen – @cartoonkate.bsky.social Kate Evans’s Portrait of Jane Austen Beyond the Literary Icon, from Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social
www.brokenfrontier.com/patchwork-ka...
Review by our @lydiaturner97.bsky.social
www.brokenfrontier.com/patchwork-ka...
Review by our @lydiaturner97.bsky.social
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen - Kate Evans’s Portrait of Jane Austen Beyond the Literary Icon, from Verso Books – Broken Frontier
Broken Frontier's Lydia Turner takes a look at 'Patchwork', the new graphic biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans.
www.brokenfrontier.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Review! Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen – @cartoonkate.bsky.social Kate Evans’s Portrait of Jane Austen Beyond the Literary Icon, from Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social
www.brokenfrontier.com/patchwork-ka...
Review by our @lydiaturner97.bsky.social
www.brokenfrontier.com/patchwork-ka...
Review by our @lydiaturner97.bsky.social
“we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality. To build our strength at home and act together”
Mark Carney at Davos
We can all say what we see, and that is a START 👏
Mark Carney at Davos
We can all say what we see, and that is a START 👏
January 21, 2026 at 9:46 AM
“we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality. To build our strength at home and act together”
Mark Carney at Davos
We can all say what we see, and that is a START 👏
Mark Carney at Davos
We can all say what we see, and that is a START 👏
Everything in the news is awful, so have a nice calm video of drawing a raging inferno - put the sound on for birds tweeting and the ASMR sound of the pencil on the glass
January 19, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Everything in the news is awful, so have a nice calm video of drawing a raging inferno - put the sound on for birds tweeting and the ASMR sound of the pencil on the glass
Here’s a free thing you can do if you’d like to broaden your reading, get to know fun people and support people who draw stories 👇
You’ll never guess who’s appearing at Cartoon County in February…
You’ll never guess who’s appearing at Cartoon County in February…
If you enjoy #comics chat and would like to help @cartooncounty.bsky.social’s monthly interviews reach a wider audience, please subscribe to m.youtube.com/@PanelBorder.... We need 50 subs before we can livestream!
Alex Fitch
m.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Here’s a free thing you can do if you’d like to broaden your reading, get to know fun people and support people who draw stories 👇
You’ll never guess who’s appearing at Cartoon County in February…
You’ll never guess who’s appearing at Cartoon County in February…
Here’s a tiny wedding to look at, from our graphic novel This Slavery. You can see Scarlett drawing, colouring, shading and lighting every cobble stone - and the expressions on the people’s tiny faces that tell you it’s not a happy day for them…
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Here’s a tiny wedding to look at, from our graphic novel This Slavery. You can see Scarlett drawing, colouring, shading and lighting every cobble stone - and the expressions on the people’s tiny faces that tell you it’s not a happy day for them…
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…
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
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…
Here are all the bits that were not silk - Content Warning for taxidermy and human remains, we were not kidding about the surprises…
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!
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🤞
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
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!
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!