Rickard Sisters

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There’s been so much going on this week I barely have time to get to know my new and very real friend Jon Bon Jovi

A panel from the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel. A decorator saying “Even now, men think less of money than they do of the respect, esteem or honour they can buy with it.”

Two more panels, in which he says “They use their lives striving to accumulate money, and then spend it to obtain respect.”

And two more, saying “So, under Socialism the principal motivator will still be honour and praise.” And then, “But, under the present system, honour and praise can be bought with money, and it doesn't matter where that money came from. Under Socialism it will be different.”

Here’s some input on your subject from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists…

We're very proud and excited to share that @rickardsisters.com ( #ThisSlavery) and @myfanwytristram.bsky.social ( #TheNoisyValley) will be at @hayfestival.bsky.social this year to helm 'Placards & Panels: Graphic Novels as Protest' on May 27th!

General booking opens at 12pm on Saturday 14 March!

This is the bookplate we designed to come out with our 2022 suffragette book No Surrender. At the time it felt like the suffrage colours were being co-opted by anti-trans activists, so we made something that was very clear about equality and dignity for everyone, undefined by biology or gender 🏳️‍⚧️✊

And something I have been learning from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is how communicating shows us we are not alone - in fact we are many, and nothing changes the world like ordinary determined people

Noisy Valley: The Art of Protest The Art of Protest

Here’s a link to pre-order Myfanwy Tristram’s NOISY VALLEY that doesn’t send money to baddies but still gets the book to your door without you having to get dressed…

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/nois...

We’re so looking forward to this!

Myfanwy’s book NOISY VALLEY is published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social in May (UK) and June (US) and is available for pre-order now

thank you for showing us the sights in Brighton! We’re going to have fun ‘on tour’ this summer ✊🎨📚

Here we are talking with @myfanwytristram.bsky.social about making graphic novels and the right to protest - a little preview of the kind of thing you might hear if you come to see us in conversation at this year’s Hay Festival 📚

Haha are we encouraging dissent or not?

Event 200 Wednesday 27 May 2026 11.30am Sophie & Scarlett Rickard and Myfanwy Tristram Placards & Panels: Graphic Novels as Protest

We’re going to be at Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social chatting with @myfanwytristram.bsky.social about protest in graphic novels!
Wanna come and heckle us? www.hayfestival.com/p-25291-soph...

8 March is the day of rebellion of working women against kitchen slavery! 8 марта — день восстания работниц против кухонного рабства! - 8 March is the day of rebellion of working women against kitchen slavery! by Boris Nikolaevich Deykin, 1932 The grey text in lower right ...

Our Collective is walking around Wakefield, and may get a pint in the Red Shed

Wilson’s brother Einstein, a white dog with his tongue out

Wilson’s mum Jessie, a tired black and white dog with her tongue out a little bit

Happy Birthday Wilson! Many happy returns from your twin brother and your mum

It sounds like you’re at work but you might STILL manage a book and a dog! What a life ☺️

Hope your Sunday includes a book and a dog, if that’s your cup of tea

I would read her shopping lists

truly I wish I could carry @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social around in my pocket to help me explain what I mean about hope and the future. Typing this has made me realise I can do exactly that by buying her book (and getting bigger pockets)

this This THIS …

“changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war”

Ahhhh thank you Gabby! ☺️

Thank you Marianne! The new category is great and the shortlist so varied

This Slavery: shortlisted for Book of the Year (Graphic Novel) at the Nibbies

Thank you Economics friends! ☺️

AMAZING AWARD NEWS!
This year marks the first ever Book of the Year: Graphic Novel category at the #BritishBookAwards, and we're delighted to announce that #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com has been shortlisted!
Congrats to the shortlisters, and fingers crossed for May 11th!

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Wow that’s cool!

This is great news - the folk at CCIC (pron. seasick) have been working so hard in all sorts of directions to help and support comics and graphic novel creators. This ACE funding will help them get even more done to raise the tide for all our little boats 🛶

Thank you Chris! ☺️

The cover of This Slavery graphic novel with the British Book Awards logo and the text Shortlisted Book of the Year: Graphic Novel

The Nibbies made a graphic novel category

and then they put our book in it, alongside some giants of our craft 😯 a big exciting surprise

Thank you! 🤩 the breadth of the list highlights the range available (although no superheroes/fighty stuff?)

My daughter teaches Y4 and is (of course) v familiar with your work! You are cultivating generations of graphic novel connoisseurs, it’s excellent 👏

Thank you Zara! ☺️

Congratulations Rachael!