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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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Tressell (who wrote The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in about 1910) was motivated by changing the prospects and opportunities for the next generation. You may be happy to put up with this shit, I paraphrase, but is it good enough for your kids? He would applaud you for being dissatisfied
In This Slavery graphic novel, the mill-owner runs for parliament. He’s already the town’s main employer, their landlord, and the magistrate. His wife runs charity dances for the poor. Any response but forelock-tugging gratitude is considered dangerous ideology. 💀 socialism! the terror! 💀
Happy birthday to Ellen Wilkinson, influential suffragist, trades unionist, communist, socialist, anti-fascist, novelist and member of parliament.
This Slavery has been out for nearly a year, have you read it yet? If you like Lancashire, mills, industrial relations, the politics of gender, matriarchal families, burning everything to the ground, and dogs - you’ll probably enjoy this story
Happy Birthday to Barbara Castle, Labour MP for Blackburn 1945-1979. She was our constituency MP when we were born, and here she is holding Scarlett. You cannot imagine the impact this woman had on all of our lives…
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How long does it take to make a graphic novel? That depends…
On this day 130 years ago, died the poet, artist, publisher and activist William Morris. You likely have something in your home with a Morris & Co design on it. I bet your bedroom looks like this.
The site foreman hard at work, in our graphic novel of Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
This image from No Surrender graphic novel expresses a view from 1910 that is still widely held today. It ignores the structural inequalities that steer women and girls into the jaws of the criminal justice system: poverty, abuse, homelessness and mental ill-health
“What happens when you fall out?” people ask us. Here’s how we make decisions- almost always by consensus! We haven’t yet met any ‘artistic differences’ to fall out about. See the thread for how the fly leaves turned out 🪰
More than a million families are being squeezed by rising private rents and frozen housing support levels, according to @resolutionfoundation.org Rent controls, and better quality standards, would change lives instantly.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... so many thoughts and feelings about this, click on it for the full horror (it’s not long) My main reaction is why?
Novvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI Assistance
The Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. âThis is not a self-driving car,â notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. âItâs more like handing ...
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Today we remember Sylvia Pankhurst, who died on this day in 1960. Pankhurst women were each a strong flavour, and Sylvia is our favourite. Brought up by suffragist socialist activist parents, Sylvia trained as an artist (Manchester, then Royal College of Art), noting every exclusion along the way
We’re gearing up for LICAF next weekend, who’s coming? I don’t think we’ll be boating this year, since the festival will be in Kendal and the schedule’s packed with stuff we’re keen to see.
I love this! And this type of stuff. Here is my writer’s (bad) sketch and @jordancollver.bsky.social artist (good) translation. If only it were a reposted thread…
Rickard Sisters@rickardsisters.com · 3w agoLook at this scrappy sketch Scarlett just found in an old notebook! The only real change is the spine, because we soon learned that ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ is practically impossible to say quickly or fit on small surfaces…
In the USA, over 4 million people have lost access to SNAP food poverty support in the last year, and there are more rule changes coming next month
Look at this scrappy sketch Scarlett just found in an old notebook! The only real change is the spine, because we soon learned that ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ is practically impossible to say quickly or fit on small surfaces…
hbd Annie Kenney (1879) this dog is here tell you facts about his special interest, radical activists with spicy lives, indulge him
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
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 little bit of character design, which always has to include what people do for a living and elements of their home life
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 🔥…
Four years ago, we were marking up our 1910 map of Great Harwood, preparing to go location scouting for This Slavery graphic novel.
The morning after the night before… from our first graphic novel, Mann’s Best Friend
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 🐐 🐖 🦆
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: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
The Rickard Sisters
Podcast Episode · Make It Then Tell Everybody · 24 August · 1hr 14min
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