Placards & Panels: Graphic Novels as Protest at Hay Festival
March 9, 2026
Join us in conversation with Myfanwy Tristram on 27th May 2026 as part of the world-renowned Hay Festival of Literature
Nibbie Nominated
March 6, 2026
This Slavery has been shortlisted for Book of the Year: Graphic Novel
This Tumult
February 8, 2026
about dealing with The Horrors – first posted on our Substack in February 2025, and saved here because we nuked our Substack. Ironic that we’ve had to find new homes for texts about resisting fascism because Substack embraced it so willingly
“How’s your shame spiral?”
February 8, 2026
on activism in a scary world – first shared on our Substack in March 2024 and now saved here because we nuked out Substack account
Resistance is refusing to die
February 8, 2026
some things we could learn from 1924 – first posted on Substack in January 2024, and now saved here because we nuked our Substack account
This Slavery in the Morning Star
February 8, 2026
This Slavery is reviewed in the world’s only English-language daily socialist newspaper
Trouble At Mill!
November 11, 2025
What a grand day out we had, celebrating the launch of This Slavery graphic novel and the life and work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
This Slavery – publication day
September 10, 2025
OUT NOW!
Comics for Gaza
August 23, 2025
a new short reflection on the war in Palestine
Trouble At Mill!
August 22, 2025
Join us to make some noise about This Slavery on 8th November
This Slavery – pre-order your copy now!
July 24, 2025
Buy now for shipping on 11th September 2025, This Slavery‘s UK publication day
What Our Grandparents Gave Us
July 15, 2025
a new four-page comic about why we’re the way we are
Re-publishing at Reading University
July 15, 2025
Tuesday 1st July 2025 at Reading University and online
Crash
July 15, 2025
Saturday 28th June 2025 at Ashford Cinema, Elwick Road, Ashford, TN23 1AX
This Slavery – cover reveal!
May 16, 2025
Publication date in the UK 9th September 2025, and across North America 11th September 2025
BorthFest Comics Day
May 16, 2025
25th May 2025 11am to 5 pm Star of the Sea, Borth, Ceredigion, SY24 5JF
Folkestone Bookshop: an illustrated talk
February 21, 2025
Tuesday 15th April 6 pm
Dialect Dinners: an Online Supper and Q&A
February 21, 2025
Wednesday 5th March 7-8.30 pm
Update on our work in progress: This Slavery
January 24, 2025
We’ve been working on a graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, and here’s how it’s going…
Introducing This Slavery
April 4, 2024
Our current work-in-progress is a graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. You may not have heard of her yet, but Ethel was the first female working-class novelist.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival
August 22, 2024
in Bowness on Windemere, 27th to 29th September 2024
No Limits Festival
August 22, 2024
at Normanby Hall Country Park, Lincolnshire on 21st & 22nd September 2024
Comics in Education Podcast
August 22, 2024
The Rickard Sisters on Comics in Education podcast, in connection with their appearance at LICAF 2024
Camera Obscura
July 25, 2023
the day we went to see the camera obscura overlooking Clifton Suspension Bridge
Get Off Your Arse!
June 17, 2023
A WEEKEND FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND IDEAS – 14/15/16 JULY
Burnley Words Festival
June 1, 2023
June 20th, 7.30pm – book tickets here, it’s free!
LDC Global Online: No Surrender
June 1, 2023
The Rickard Sisters join LDC to discuss No Surrender as part of their June Global Online meeting
Tressell’s Children Project: Hastings
June 1, 2023
Join us on Thursday 8th June for the first event in MSL‘s Tressell’s Children project – an evening of Robert Tressell, art, graphic novels and working-class history, in conversation with Sophie and Scarlett Rickard, about the graphic novelisation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
Broken Frontier: No Surrender review
April 25, 2023
No Surrender was reviewed on the respected British comics site Broken Frontier by Andy Oliver on 5th April 2023
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: French Edition
March 29, 2023
Les Philanthropes aux Poches Percees will be published by Editions Delcourt on 5th April 2023
No Surrender in Bristol
March 25, 2023
Join us at the Small City Bookshop on 13th April 2023 for an evening of Deeds (and illustrations) not Words
Gladstones Library: Who Reads Old Ideas?
March 25, 2023
Sophie and Scarlett gave a talk about how and why they make graphic novels out of Edwardian political fiction at Gladstones Library, Britain’s only residential library.
People’s History Museum, Manchester
March 25, 2023
Watch us enjoying another look around the People’s History Museum – a space dedicated to ideas worth fighting for
Nailsworth & Stroud: No Surrender
January 17, 2023
Scarlett spoke about the making of No Surrender graphic novel, the suffragette sequel to our Eisner nominated adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
Having a laugh with Jane Austen
February 17, 2023
Come to visit Aunt Jane with us…
No Surrender in the Morning Star
January 29, 2023
No Surrender is reviewed in the world’s only English-language daily socialist newspaper
Gladstones Library: Writer in Residence
December 28, 2022
Sophie shall be a Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library during January and March 2023
Gladstones Library in North Wales is Britain’s only residential library. You can join Sophie there for a masterclass on adaptations in January, or an evening talk in March from both Scarlett & Sophie about adapting Edwardian novels like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and No Surrender.
Broken Frontier Awards 2022
December 28, 2022
No Surrender was nominated in the category Best Graphic Novel in Broken Frontier’s 2022 annual awards
The winning list was announced on the 4th January 2023. Best Graphic Novel for 2022 went to Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte (Fantagraphics Books) – congratulations!
Making friends with the RMT Twitter Guy
December 28, 2022
The trades union movement’s favourite social media manager drinks tea from a Rickard Sisters mug.
14 December 2022
No Surrender on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
November 28, 2022
Scarlett and Sophie talking to Emma Barnett about their new graphic novel, No Surrender. The interview includes conversation about why these issues are relevant to modern ethics of protest and civil disobedience, about how they put so many individual women into one book, how they go about turning a prose book into narrative art, and the interaction between fact and fiction.
BBC Radio 4, 29th November 2022
Now Read This!
December 31, 2022
Win Wiacek reviews No Surrender: “Powerful, enraging, engaging and even occasionally funny, this never-more-timely tale of the force of the disenfranchised with their backs to the wall and ready to fight is supremely readable and should be compulsory viewing for all”
11 November 2022
New York Journal of Books
December 31, 2022
“This isn’t musty, dusty history, but history that feels ripped from the pages of today’s newspapers.” Marissa Moss reviews No Surrender.
November 2022
We talk to the Islington Tribune about No Surrender
December 31, 2022
“Jenny Clegg is a wonderful working-class hero. We were drawn to her vitality and turn of phrase because of our childhoods. No Surrender was written in part as a recruiting tool for the suffrage movement, and the way it explores things from the point of view of all kinds of women from all walks of life adds to the sense of unity. Jenny, Mary and Alice all have individual strengths and challenges, and there is something they’re to relate to.”
18 November 2022
Lil’s Vintage World reviews No Surrender
December 4, 2022
“I think Constance Maud would be very, very proud of this graphic novel of her text, and I think the WSPU, the Suffragettes, would be extremely proud to have this as their beacon in the 21st century, that their work lives on. It’s done so true and so beautifully.”
Review of No Surrender in Buzz Mag
December 31, 2022
“Sophie & Scarlett Rickard fantastically bring the pain and anguish to life, as their illustrative style changes as quickly as the tone of the story.”
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in The Morning Star
December 4, 2022
“I always wanted to be that person on Coronation Street who decides what ornaments Deirdre Barlow has on her shelves but this is loads more fun — you can have anything you want, as long as you can imagine it, without breaking the budget.” – Michael Boncza interviews us about the process of adapting The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists as a graphic novel.
