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

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 ✊

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 1/3 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

This Slavery review in @mstaronline.bsky.social was a nice surprise morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...

What’s the main difference between you and your siblings? 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?

Does your house look 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…

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 1/2

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?)

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

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

“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 👏

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…

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…

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!

To resist oppression, and continue to protest for basic civil rights in the face of powerful authorities, is heroic. Every change begins with a small group of determined citizens. The future has not been decided yet, let’s make it better than the past. Let’s stick up for one another ✊

Join us on a field trip to a scene from This Slavery graphic novel. It turns out if you draw first and visit later, you get lots of surprises (including a mistake a whole quarter of a mile long)

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Have you ever thought about where silk comes from? Come round Macclesfield Silk Museum with us for a rapid review: from wiggly worm to the president of Ghana…

In November, @commonerschoir.bsky.social sang their new song This Slavery in Queen Street Mill textile museum as part of Trouble At Mill - there was barely a dry eye in the house

Happy New Year! 2025 was the year This Slavery came out, and here is a glimpse of the launch event Trouble At Mill. There are more, longer films at RickardSisters.com

Merry Christmas Eve eve folks - time to stop wrapping, for tomorrow we peel the spuds Wishing the smoothest of journeys to all travellers, and the jolliest of customers to all retail and hospitality workers

The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is looking for book reviewers. https://downthetubes.net/journal-of-graphic-novels-and-comics-seeks-reviewers/

It’s time for some good news! 🌱 🌍 (1/3)

How’s your Christmas shopping going? Would these tea towels help at all? rickardsisters.com/product/post...

Happy Birthday Aunt Jane! Here’s that time we went for a nosy round her house, it’s a great day out

Here we are researching and immersing ourselves in cotton weaving life, for the making of This Slavery graphic novel We’re at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, where we went on to hold the launch event when the book was made

For the avoidance of doubt, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel is definitely a Christmas movie - it has a whole chapter dedicated to wholesome family festivities

**this video contains spoilers** but tbf this story was first published 100 years ago Here’s an introduction to This Slavery graphic novel’s stoic and steadfast sister (and a terrified dog)

Mince pie season is the best, and I for one think they should be freed from their December shackles and made available all year round 🥧

This is well expressed 👇 Click through (if you have the stomach) for the screenshot of the shameful Home Office tweet that prompted it

What would you like for dinner? An overbearing, aggressive husband, judgy guests and an apologetic mother? Mmmhm delicious This dinner party is from our graphic novel This Slavery. Scarlett takes about 1 day to draw a page like this, working from very rough paper roughs you can see at the start

Who knew one page could contain quite so much? Zooming in on the overhead spreads in This Slavery graphic novel is full of surprises…

“130 steep and slippery steps in confined spaces” - you can’t put us off exploring that easily This is the mysteriously named Giant’s Cave under the Camera Obscura overlooking the best bridge in Britain

Anyone buying books from us this week is getting festive recycled packaging, instead of regular recycled packaging 🎄

Here’s a crowd scene from This Slavery for you to pinch and zoom - we loved setting fire to everything for this book 🔥

Wanna see Robert Tressell’s original manuscript in his own handwriting? It’s on display at @lselibrary.bsky.social near Lincoln’s Inn

December the first means opening the doors on your advent calendar and getting excited about a tiny drawing of a shepherd Or open this thread to see Chapter One headers evolve through three books…

Come round East Riddlesden Hall with us, and wonder at the clock, the carving, the china and the… massive cow? @themerl.bsky.social we need you to investigate

We feel “at home emotionally, politically, and artistically” in this book, it’s true

So far today instead of writing a book I have … called HMRC and bought back some missing years for my pension, got a flu jab and purchased a massive cabbage. Would you like to procrastinate with me by admiring my cabbage?

Lovely write-up of This Slavery for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social - written with affection and admiration for Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the Lancashire that made her possible Thank you @traveloguer.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...

Grumpy activist relatives who are difficult to buy for? Here’s a solution… Available from all good bookshops (in person or online), or even from us at RickardSisters.com

Do people understand what they are saying about themselves, when they denounce people as ‘antifa’? bleedingcool.com/comics/comic...

Who knew a dog could be so useful? Happy National Collie Day (US)! There are loads of collies in our lives, but the most recent one is fictional

Jip is a very good dog to stand still while Mother dries his toesies