Please come and say hello if you’re here at LICAF! We’ll cheerfully draw on anything you put in front of us

Do you want compulsory Digital IDs? I don't. Over 1.4 million people have already signed this petition to say NO to Digital IDs. So have I. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Road trip! We’re excited to be on our way to LICAF to see @sxbond.bsky.social talk about editing this afternoon in sunny Cumbria ☀️

Here’s an example of the kind of fun that can be had at LICAF in between the art and the comics chat 💬 🦢

Honestly a thing of beauty. So accessible, so vividly and so gorgeously rendered. It made me a Rickard Sisters fan for life!

I’ve donated to two school so far, given the book as Christmas gifts and read them with my children. We need children to be able to think.

This classic of socialist literature has been made into a faithful and accessible 360 page illustrated narrative. If you’ve been meaning to read it/been told you ought to read it, here’s your opportunity! Available from RickardSisters.com, all good bookshops and one sprawling evil corporation

How it’s going… bsky.app/profile/rick...

How it started… (from Jan 2023, writing the script for This Slavery)

Yeah it’s such good fun. I was speaking to a school librarian yesterday who said they had it out on display for their open evening and the students were really into it ☺️ There is a hunger for formative political texts - the kids are alright

So many people say that, we donate The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novels to school and prison libraries on people’s behalf through this link: rickardsisters.com/product/ragg...

Should be in schools

Happy 5th Birthday to The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel! 🎁

A Tale of Two Sisters: 3pm Sunday 28th as part of Lakes International Comic Art Festival Come and talk to us about our latest SelfMadeHero book: This Slavery - we’d love to meet you! @selfmadehero.bsky.social @comicartfestival.bsky.social

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

THIS SLAVERY by the Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com and published by SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social is reviewed at Comics Grinder. comicsgrinder.com/2025/09/23/t...

May we introduce you to Mother? Be on your best behaviour now, she takes no nonsense!

Book your place! 🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥 Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks RickardSisters.com/trouble

This Slavery is a book about how the human beings are treated in the economics of industrial capitalism, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t get to draw the machinery as well…

Who’s coming to LICAF this weekend? If you are interested in art/visual storytelling/creativity and you can get yourself to the Lake District, you should! It’s a fantastic, truly international festival and v good value - programme & tickets at comicartfestival.com @comicartfestival.bsky.social

Thank you! It’s set in 1910s Britain, so the weavers are likely to be 3rd generation urban families, so the story doesn’t really engage with the beginnings of industrialisation. The book was written contemporaneously by a Lancashire weaver, our graphic novel is an adaptation of that authentic story.

"Just your regular reminder that public ownership is hugely popular in the UK" via @weownit.org.uk ... including with actual & potential Reform voters not yet aware that Farage & his billionaire backers want even MORE privatisation including dismantling what's left of our NHS #SocialistSunday

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

If you don't want - people getting sick from water pollution - pensioners dying from cold not able to afford bills - children dying from mould in slum housing while water & energy company bosses & landlords revel in tax avoiding wealth you are now "Hard Left" #SocialistSunday

Drawing the title page of This Slavery graphic novel It’s a story about wage slavery, marriage, working life, family life - all of it in the shadows of Lancashire cotton mills, yet uncomfortably relevant to our modern lives

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women. We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social to fight back against this harmful narrative. 👇 https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

A master plan to exterminate trans people would have this document as a stepping stone. It is from the Far Right Heritage Foundation - who Labour Ministers have chosen to meet.

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today. 12 noon. Portland Place, London. March with us to demand the billionaires pay. Tax wealth. Tax the big polluters. Fix the #climatecrisis www.makethempay.org.uk/march-with-us/

God this is good on what ails Your Party - & easier to digest than the longer version I was sharing yesterday. Genuinely unclear though why people as smart as @archimbaldo.bsky.social aren’t now putting their energy into Greens as plenty other TUists are prometheusjournal.org/2025/07/10/l...

This weekend: 35 canvass launches. All five boroughs. Six weeks left. The home stretch starts now. Sign up at zohranfornyc.com/bfcv

There goes the First Amendment.

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

The steep streets of This Slavery graphic novel, with their terraced houses and cobbles, make a very distinctive setting. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, who wrote the original novel, lived and worked in Great Harwood. If you know it, you’ll spot some familiar landmarks in this book

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

It’s all a corporate sham - the dinner in a castle, the faux outrage, the war, the cover-ups - it’s either protecting or greasing the wheels of profit at every stage. Imagine if we were able to put this much effort into improving quality of life for regular folk

Read/watch the full conversation at @thenation.com

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT. I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

From our graphic novel No Surrender: an ineffective, vacillating cabinet minister overwhelmed by an uprising of civil disobedience and protest (the suffrage movement)

In a world of Tommy Robinsons, we need more Stephen Grahams! 💕🎥 ☺️ www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

⏬️ Ah, but the book is brilliant! So I think it was worth it. It's a beautiful violin. rickardsisters.com/news-post/th...

How about a nice egg at this difficult time?

What’s this? A page from the Clitheroe Advertiser showing ‘local craftswoman’ @buffybatik.bsky.social and little Rickard Sisters, who have been drawing mills since 1981 The cobbles (and the cat) feel v familiar Wave if you live in Abbey Corn Mills, Whalley, Lancs (which is now converted to homes)

How do we fix this mess?

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

It turns out there are some things that are harder to draw than others, and it’s not until you start drawing a 360+ page book about a fiddle player that it really sinks in 🎻

Excellent review👇

Rehearsals for #WeAreTheLionsMrManager start next week! 📅 Rehearsed reading: Sept 27 | Willesden Green Library 7.30pm 👀 Preview: Oct 11 | North Edinburgh Arts 7.30pm @northedinarts 🎟️ Tour: Oct 14–18 | Lantern Theatre @TheLanternSheff ✨ Tickets: townsendproductions.org.uk