Yeah, Rye, your dad's a reality-warping sorcerer - what's not to get? #MyDadFightsDemons comes out in 3 DAYS! 🔗 buff.ly/3EeKP04 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #YAbooks #newcomics #publishing #indiecomics #graphicnovels #bandedessinee #graphicnovel #indiepublishing

Remember, the #MyDadFightsDemons launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social is TODAY at 7PM! @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social Remember, you can pre-order from Gosh! here: buff.ly/85nOEo3 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #booklaunch #publishing #newcomics

"An author who still has something to say has been proudly restored to topicality by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard." - #ThisSlavery, reviewed by the @sandagnguide.bsky.social! 🔗 buff.ly/GUJwdLa @rickardsisters.com #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #comics #publishing

1 WEEK TO GO until #MyDadFightsDemons, the dimension-hopping new graphic novel from Abbigayle Bircham and @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social, arrives in the UK! 🔗 buff.ly/3EeKP04 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #publishing #newbooks

Today on SOLRAD, we feature an exclusive excerpt of MY DAD FIGHTS DEMONS! Written by Bobby Joseph, illustrated by Abbigayle Bircham, published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social solrad.co/exclusive-ex...

Come see us at #LICAF2025 on the 27th and 28th of September! We'll be at tables 39 & 40, just by the left entrance - and you might see some familiar faces there too... @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social @bryan-talbot.bsky.social @martinrowson.bsky.social @rickardsisters.com @lucysullivan.bsky.social

Of course, we've got more than one book coming out... #MyDadFightsDemons, the new YA graphic novel by Comics Laureate @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Abbigayle Bircham arrives in 3 WEEKS! (North America: October 14th!) 🔗 buff.ly/MaNvMjV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #YAbooks

#ThisSlavery: OUT NOW IN THE UK! To celebrate, we've just posted an exclusive Q&A with the author/artist duo the @rickardsisters.com! 🔗 buff.ly/nxVBuPl #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #publishing #comics

So, #ThisSlavery is coming out tomorrow - but, @RickardSisters.com, what's it all about? 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #publishing #newbook

Today on SOLRAD, we feature an Exclusive Excerpt of THIS SLAVERY -- Adapted by Sophie Rickard, Illustrated by Scarlett Rickard, published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social solrad.co/exclusive-ex...

"I'd sooner be born in the gutter than live on the poor like a cannibal." The new revelatory adaptation of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's #ThisSlavery arrives TOMORROW! @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newbook #publishing #graphicnovels #comics

In cotton-county, life's all knots and tangles... The UK release of #ThisSlavery is in only 2 DAYS! @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #graphicnovels #publishing #indiecomics

#ThisSlavery, the revived Marxist-Feminist epic, is out in 3 DAYS! @rickardsisters.com 🔗https://buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #indiecomics #publishing #graphicnovels #booksky #comics

Reflections on #WilliamMorris from the making of #ThisSlavery... @rickardsisters.com @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #indiecomics #illustration #preraphaelite #graphicnovel #publishing #bandedessinee #indiepublishing #newcomics #indiecomicscreator #indiecomicsartist

We haven't just got one book coming soon... #MyDadFightsDemons! is out in 3 WEEKS in the UK! (North America: October 14th!) @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/MaNvMjV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #publishing #YAbook #graphicnovels

Yes, if I was in north London I'd certainly pop in. 👇🏻 If it's your manor then it sounds like the kind of place that would love to order a copy of This Slavery for you. The @rickardsisters.com new book is officially published next week by @selfmadehero.bsky.social but some bookshops have it already.

1 week to go until #ThisSlavery's UK release! 🏭🏭🏭 Don't worry, readers abroad, the North American release is coming up on October 7th! @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/B1KfOqx #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #publishing #newbook

"It can be a continuity nightmare..." Scarlett of the @rickardsisters.com on all the angles and details that go into deigning just one room in #ThisSlavery! 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #behindthescenes #comics #illustration #howto #graphicnovel #selfmadehero

@rickardsisters.com on this Where's Wally illustration from #ThisSlavery, which arrives next week on September 11th! (Or Where's Waldo to our American readers, who can read This Slavery on October 7th!) 🔗 buff.ly/B1KfOqx #selfmadehero #indiecomics #publishing #bandedessinee #graphicnovels

Everyone, wait! Mum's got something to say... The making of a page from #MyDadFightsDemons by Abbigayle Bircham and @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social coming soon! 🔗 buff.ly/MaNvMjV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #publishing #NewComics #YAbooks

Dark smoke rises from the mills and factories, charring Lancashire's skies as young rebel Rachel Martin learns the manner of her making... #ThisSlavery is 2 WEEKS AWAY! @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/B1KfOqx #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #newcomics #publishing

#MyDadFightsDemons at @goshcomics.bsky.social! Well, this isn't about a fight, but it is about a launch party on September 20th! 🔗 buff.ly/eVHnfzH @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #newcomics #booklaunch #publishing

#MyDadFightsDemons' UK release is 1 month away! Join Rye on a dimension-hopping journey with his absentee sorcerer father... 🔗 buff.ly/cPBGxZ2 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #grahicnovel #YAbooks #yacomics

3 weeks to go until #ThisSlavery hits UK shelves! (North America: October 7th!) @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/eCQdGoV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

🦋🦋🦋 RUINS author Peter Kuper will be giving a talk at the Butterfield Library in Cold Spring, New York on August 22nd! #Ruins #indiecomics #peterkuper #indiecomics #graphicnovel #butterflyconservation

I'll be giving a talk at the Cold Spring,NY library #insectopolis @ww3illustrated.bsky.social @wwnorton.com @selfmadehero.bsky.social #entomology

Sometimes our parents do things we don't understand - and we don't just mean magic! #MyDadFightsDemons by @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Abbigayle Bircham, out in the UK on September 25th and North America on October 14th! 🔗 buff.ly/cPBGxZ2 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #YAcomics

#ThisSlavery's original cover might have been a bit more... direct about the book's themes... Find the cover by the @rickardsisters.com on bookshop shelves on 11/09! (North America: October 7th!) 🔗 buff.ly/eCQdGoV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #publishing

"Brookes’ art in this graphic adaptation seems to be perfectly adapted to his subject matter, existing as an item of beauty in its own right..." Thank you to Bookmunch for the new review of @garethbrookes.bsky.social's #TheCompleatAngler! 🔗 buff.ly/ZR3myAC #selfmadehero #indiecomics #fishing

Unboxing my comp copies of my new YA graphic novel, My Dad Fights Demons! An urban, magical realism satire! It will grab you by the scruff of your neck and never let you go! Release date: 25th Sept (UK), 15th Oct (USA). Are you ready? @abbiebsart.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social #happy

Follow Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's journey from child labourer to poet to the UK's first published female working class novelist! #ThisSlavery @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/eCQdGoV #indiecomics #selfmadehero #graphicnovel #publishing

I’m giving a presentation and in conversation with Steve Brodner Sept. 10 in NYC @ SOI and my exhibition is up thru Sept 20 @wwnorton.com @ww3illustrated.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social @wwnortonuk.bsky.social #entomology #entomologyart #Insectopolis

Some background info related to the up-coming new book by @rickardsisters.com ⏬️

I've got a copy on order from my local independent bookshop. ⤵️

#ThisSlavery's UK release is only 1 month away! (North American release: October 7th!) @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/eCQdGoV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #publishing

Some people have no respect for boundaries... My Dad Fights Demons - out in the UK on September 25th, and North America on October 14th! 😈 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/UpBuhff #indiecomics #selfmadehero #graphicnovel #publishing #indiepublishing

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962) became a full-time mill worker at 13. She then went on to be Britain's first working class female novelist, and original author of #ThisSlavery @rickardsisters.com 🔗 buff.ly/eCQdGoV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing #newcomics

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The book is published by the excellent SelfMadeHero.

Cover concepts from #BoneBroth by Alex Taylor! Bone Broth arrives in the UK on October 23rd! 🍜🍜🍜 🔗 buff.ly/iL2fhz0 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #firstgrapicnovelaward #newcomics #publishing

⚡️ I mean... how could I not?! Picked up from my local Berlin comic book shop: David Bowie's Berlin years as a graphic novel. Publisher @selfmadehero.bsky.social is quickly becoming one of my favorites — they have great titles!

Impoverished mill worker Rachel Martin follows her mother to the house of Old Barstock, who owns the mill that her family have been chained to for decades... #ThisSlavery by @therickardsisters.com - out in the UK on September 11th! (North America: October 7th!) 🔗 buff.ly/alRbydP #indiecomics

Which Monday face are you this today? A or B? #monday #mondaymotivation #ilovemondays❤️ #ihatemonday #mondaymood #mondayblues #mondayfunday #comics #graphicnovel #Demons #dads #teenager #mydadfightsdemons www.waterstones.com/book/my-dad-... @abbiebsart.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social

SelfMadeHero Annouce My Dad Fights Demons! comicbuzz.com/selfmadehero... @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social @abbiebsart.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social #mydadfightsdemons #graphicnovel

Our book! With a discount for pre-orders! @abbiebsart.bsky.social

It's the last day of the #WPreorder sale! There's still time to get 25% OFF our upcoming titles, including #TheMostAmazingSaturdayMorningRubbishClub by Francisco de la Mora and Bill Tuckey! 🔗 buff.ly/Mud9JQa #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

Waterstones' pre-order sale is still ongoing! Use code SUMMER25 for 25% off pre-ordering new breakout graphic novel #BoneBroth by Alex Taylor! #Wpreorder 📚 🔗 buff.ly/Mud9JQa #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #publishing

In the #WPreorder sale: YA graphic novel #MyDadFightsDemons by @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Abbigayle Bircham! 🔗 buff.ly/Mud9JQa #selfmadehero #publishing #indiecomics #booksale #comics #graphicnovel

#WPreorder! #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com is 25% OFF on the Waterstones website and app if you use the code SUMMER25 at checkout! 🔗 buff.ly/Mud9JQa #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #graphicliterature

#WPreorder! Until July 31st, upcoming SelfMadeHero titles are 25% OFF at Waterstones if you use the code SUMMER25 on the Waterstones website or app! 🔗 buff.ly/Mud9JQa Go! Get 25% off... #publishing #bandedessinee #graphicnovel #indiepublishing #newcomics