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Scarlett & Sophie: sisters who make graphic novels together, including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, No Surrender and This Slavery with SelfMadeHero 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally

A subtitled video of Scarlett and Sophie talking about the making of This Slavery graphic novel, cut together with images from the book

A subtitled video of Sophie attempting to recount what she learned at Macclesfield Silk Museum, generously edited by Scarlett into some sort of sense

The teacher holding the book Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt in front of an empty classroom (the kids have gone home)

Sophie and Scarlett exploring Lyme Park in Regency splendour

An amazing poster for the DIY festival featuring the Commoners Choir

Sophie and Scarlett sitting in the park talking about making graphic novels (as usual)

A time lapse video of the creation of the cover for This Slavery graphic novel

The paperback, in 5 pieces splayed out on the desk

A bookshelf with the paperback of James Joyce’s Ulysses amid others

The Rokeby Venus after a suffragette had been at it with a meat cleaver, as part of their famously polite direct action campaign 🙄

Sophie and Scarlett sitting on a bench outside a mill, talking about making graphic novels

Sophie & Scarlett in Brighton Royal Pavilion looking at a curious orientalist minifigure of the acclaimed actor Anthony Head, who died recently

Sophie, Scarlett & Myfanwy sitting on the lawn outside Brighton Pavilion, chatting about how comics get made

A nine panel comics sequence of cotton weaving, with the following text:

One loom makes 100 yards of cloth every five hours
I've worked every week since I was eleven, which is 500 weeks =2,400,000 yards.
And there's 100 houses just like ours in this street (so 960,000,000 yards).
I work six days a week for 10 hours=1,200 yards a week
But I work four looms, not
one = 4,800 yards a week
Hester's done the same, so that's 4,800,000 yards between us.
Mother's done double that at least, so 9,600,000 yards out of our little house.
And a hundred towns like ours (so 96,000,000,000 yards).
All generating profit for folk like Barstock across the British Empire, built upon profits and the suffering of the fallen.

Scarlett contemplating a free pudding in the Artists dining room at Hay Festival

A video of Sophie and Myfanwy (with Scarlett’s voice) walking along a busy thoroughfare at Hay Festival

A video of Scarlett drawing on the iPad and building up the character of a room, cut with finished pages from This Slavery graphic novel

A stack of books under a bedside lamp. The top one is The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin

Cut out and put up on the fridge with magnets:
Michael Rosen
Where are the schools?
They say that we should only look after our own, sort out what's ours and tidy our home.
Cultivate your garden, said the writer Voltaire, saying that's all we need do, to care.
But in another place many miles away, schools are being destroyed, they say.
Education, we're told, is a human right.
But there aren't any schools left in sight.
We're in education.
It's our affair, no?
So what do we do?
Pretend we don't know
that this destruction is going on?
That hundreds of schools have just gone?
Or do we ensure our voices are heard to forcibly condemn the disaster incurred?
IN
Words by Michael Rosen
Illustration by
Dan Berry

A timelapse of the digital drawing of a page - from layout through sketch and inks, colours and lettering

Here’s the signing queue

Photo of Myfanwy Tristram signing a book for Nic Watts (who did the graphic novel TOUISSAINT LOUVERTURE) with Alex Fitch

A photo of Myf with the microphone, the screen behind her is showing her book cover, Noisy Valley

A subtitled video of Scarlett, Sophie & Myfanwy Tristram sitting on the grass outside Brighton Pavilion chatting about making comics. The points are occasionally illustrated with images from the books

A subtitled video of Scarlett & Sophie looking round a cotton weaving mill that has been preserved, and making some rather ill informed observations

A very pink photo of Michael Rosen posing with Sophie and Scarlett at the British Book Awards

From left to right top row: Sha Nazir, Emma Hayley, Scarlett, Dav Pilkey (he makes DogMan books!), Karrie Fransman and Nessa Urquhart. Bottom row: Jamie Smart, Hannah Berry and Sophie

A photo of Emma Hayley of SelfMadeHero with Scarlett and Sophie, all three of us trying hard to look like we’re comfortable having this kind of picture taken

A photo of Jamie Smart with Scarlett & Sophie, all dressed in ‘cocktail attire’ at the British Book Awards

Part Three (of five) of a fat paperback, producing a slim volume that fits in my handbag. The background shows I’m on the train. Vive la reading!

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’

A short subtitled video of Scarlett talking to the camera, with loads of illustrations of tea from This Slavery graphic novel

A photo of the Graphic Novel shortlist for the 2026 Nibbies:
🐊 Investigators, John Patrick Green
🐕 Dogman Big Jim Believes, Dav Pilkey
🐒 Bunny v Monkey Intergalactic Monkey Business, Jamie Smart
🐉 Who Killed Nessie, Paul Cornell & Rachael Smith
🏭 This Slavery, Rickard Sisters
🫚 Ginseng Roots, Craig Thompson

A subtitled video of Sophie, Scarlett & Myf sitting in the grass by Brighton Pavilion chatting about comics.

A panel from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel in which a worried looking man clutches a large hardback and says “I’m going to try to sell some of these books”

Sophie walking along a country lane in the sun talking about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

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’

A double page spread from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting a lively picket outside a cotton mill

A subtitled video of Scarlett explaining how she gets her siblings Scarlett and Jacob to suggest people to fill up a crowd, illustrated with one double page spread filled with their suggestions

An open spread of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, showing The Money Trick being explained using props from the men’s lunchboxes

A video of Scarlett showing how she came to draw a particular house in This Slavery graphic novel, where she got it from and how she furnished it, with images from her internet searches, the finished book and a text-chat with Sophie at the end

Scarlett is walking down a country lane telling us about her hero Dorothy Wordsworth. When she points and says “this kind of shit” she’s referring to a host of golden daffodils

The front cover of the programme book for Hay Festival 21-31 May 2026

Sophie and Scarlett sitting at a bench in a sunny park, chatting. At the end there is the cover of the graphic novel Mann’s Best Friend

Scarlett & Sophie going round National Trust property Petworth House, getting facts wrong and being a bit rude about great art

A panel from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel, in which the workers are asking the foreman if they might be allowed to work Good Friday and Easter Monday because they need the money. He says No.

A close up of a panel from This Slavery graphic novel showing plates in the rack, one of which has a crack in it

A subtitled video of Sophie (the writing sister) walking along a country lane in the sun talking about the Brontës. She looks cold despite the sun, in a long coat and dark glasses, with her hands stuffed inside a woolly hat

Rob Yates standing in the street next to a VOTE GREEN sign (erected by Dad) outside a house with a lovely old Mercedes W123 hearse on the drive

Dad and Catherine looking very cheerful in a beg crowd. Dad has white hair and a beard and sunglasses. He’s dressed in blue and carrying a furled EU flag. Catherine has curly dark hair and a big smile. She’s wrapped up warm with gloves and a hat, and a bright blue/green scarf. She’s holding a sign that says MAKE ART NOT WAR. Signs behind them say MAKE RACISM WRONG AGAIN and WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER

A compilation of images from the graphic novel of This Slavery showing the little dog Jip in all sorts of different scenes, with the cover of the book at the end

Sophie walking along a country lane on a cold sunny day, spouting opinions about Robert Tressell. She wears a coat and scarf and sunglasses.

Scarlett & Sophie sitting in a band stand talking about their sibling relationship as they draw graphic novels together

A compilation film of the Trouble At Mill event, with a soundtrack of the brilliant original song by the Commoners Choir. It shows the steam engine, the looms, actors, singers, an exhibition about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and people buying books. Squillions of people were involved on the day but I could only tag a few. There’s more about the event on our website.

A time lapse video of Scarlett producing pages and pages of ‘roughs’ - A4 paper with the layout roughly penciled and sketchy scenes and figures in the panels

John Everet Millais’ painting of Ophelia from the national gallery for which Elizabeth Siddal posed in a cold bath 😔

Some clips of Scarlett’s hand drawing on the iPad, building up a highly decorated double page spread of a graphic novel, in the style of Morris & Co surface design and depicting a woman reading News from Nowhere to her child, who is tucked up in bed

A subtitled video of Scarlett using her iPad to research furniture and clothing from c 1910 for our graphic novel This Slavery

A subtitled video of Scarlett and Sophie wandering over a royal palace making ill informed comments and criticizing the decor

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