Rickard Sisters

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!

Congratulations Jamie! So exciting

Congratulations! So exciting

Thank you Sacha you’re very kind ☺️

Ahhh thank you Myf ☺️

Thank you mum ☺️

Thank you so much! We can’t wait to play everyone your song about it ☺️

The cover of This Slavery graphic novel on a black background, with the British Book Awards Logo and the text Shortlisted Book of the Year Graphic Novel

A photo of the six shortlisted books in the graphic novel category: InvestíGators by John Patrick Green, Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey, Bunny v Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business, Who Killed Nessie by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith, This Slavery by us and Ginseng Roots Craig Thompson

We’re flabbergasted to see This Slavery shortlisted for Book of the Year: Graphic Novel at the Nibbies!

What an incredible list to appear on, and isn’t it great to have a graphic novel category

It’s hard to explain the excitement and trepidation of that moment when people get to read the book you just spent years putting together…

Yes - look up Dr Jennifer Eccles (@drbendybrain on Instagram)

we are v convinced of a triumvirate tendency for hEDS + queer + neurodivergent

have fun enjoying this new rabbit hole of special interest…

Team71 donate The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel to schools in #Huyton

Team71 donate The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel to schools in #Huyton

Marking #WorldBookDay with personalised copies of the @rickardsisters.com Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for two of our partner schools. #Team71 is at its best when we’re building things with our community. Recipients anonymised!

Thank you Mike!
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Oh you are so eagle eyed! Presumably the locals would recognise that ‘erection’ anywhere

It’s probably a bit wordy and theoretical for KS2 but we have heard of some young fans. I think you could use short passages to talk about specific ideas though? It goes down very well with teenagers hungry for alternative world views (as the original novel used to do)

Here we are location scouting for This Slavery graphic novel - I’ll think of a prize for anyone who can name the town from these clues alone…

Detail from the cover of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel showing a painter/decorator at work with patched clothes, a flat cap, and signwriting tools in hand

On one hand I’m happy that some schools seem to be moving on from elaborate World Book Day costumes (poverty proofing, focusing on everything but reading etc) but on the other hand…

…would love to see some primary school Frank Owens wielding paintbrushes and socialist diatribes

I haven’t been to Heathrow for years, we live near Manchester airport. But a bookstore is the LAST thing my family would let me near when there’s a plane to catch!

Things are changing here re GNs though - the kids are growing into adults who love sequential art

It’s cool that there *is* a graphic novel section in an airport bookstore - I’m not sure there would be one in a UK airport?

This Slavery is a book about the nature or work, and it centres the domestic kitchen as a workplace in a matriarchal ‘economic unit’ (or as we think of it, a family)

Drawing that kitchen thirty billion times doesn’t seem to have put Scarlett off

A book cover: on a dark inky blue background a five women stand together holding up an ornate protest banner which reads Constance Maud’s No Surrender, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. They are dressed in Edwardian clothing and VOTES FOR WOMEN sashes. The girl in the centre, who wears the shawl of a working woman, holds a loud-hailer

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

Looking for something to read during Women’s History Month?
Both these graphic novels explore authentic experiences of women’s place in early 20th C Britain - and told in pictures.
No Surrender is about civil rights and This Slavery is about industrial capitalism. Enjoy!

This sounds like the voice of experience

What percentage of museum visits should you be allowed to touch?
Find out where Scarlett draws the line (and where Sophie would hide contraband) at Macclesfield Silk Museum