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Happy Easter to all those Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on zero hours contracts for whom there is no work - and no money - over this long weekend.
Bank Holidays are great for people on salaries - less so for people paid by the hour and/or with childcare struggles.
Bonne journée de parution! Today The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel is coming out in French! They’ve done a beautiful job. https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-les-philanthropes-aux-poches-percees/album-les-philanthropes-aux-poches-percees
#GraphicNovel #BandesDessinees #Comics #Drawing #IllustratedBook #TheRaggedTrouseredPhilanthropists #PhilanthropesAuxPochesPercées
Les philanthropes, c'est le nom que se donnent les ouvriers, peintres en bâtiments de la ville anglaise de Mugsborough dans les sombres années de l'après-guerre de 1919. Philanthropes car ils s'usent le corps et l'âme pour enrichir leurs patrons. L'un d'entre eux, Owen, va tenter de leur faire prendre conscience qu'il existe des solutions de résistance à cette oppression.
Our graphic novel No Surrender is an adaptation of the original book by suffragette Constance Maud. The book ties in real-life events with a fictional tale of a group of young women in the midst of the battle to gain the vote, and those who are standing against them.
#TrafalgarSquare #Demonstration #London #NationalGallery #Lion #GraphicNovel #Comics #ComicArt #Suffragette #Protest #Edwardian #EdwardianStyle #RightToProtest #PoliticalBooks #Equality
Look out! Here comes “new woman” Selina Crompton and her smarmy brother Charles. She’s a mountaineer and adventurer, she drives a *car*, but she thinks giving women the vote is a step too far.
Meet Selina, Charles, their friends and nemeses in our graphic novel of Constance Maud’s suffragette classic No Surrender, available in all good bookshops and online (or direct from us https://rickardsisters.com/product/no-surrender/ )
#VotesForWomen #EqualRights #WomensRights #HumanRights #Comics #GraphicNovel #Illustration
Thank you so much to everyone at the magical Gladstone’s Library for a wonderful writing residency. I have learned and developed so much and made some lovely friends. I’ll be back!
We would urge any writers to check the criteria and apply next year. The process is not onerous and the offer is generous. In a world where time and space feel increasingly unaffordable, this scheme is an oasis - https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/news/volume/the-search-for-2024-writers-in-residence 📚
Here’s a little scene from the fictional Lancashire town of Oldroyd, from our first graphic novel Mann’s Best Friend.
The building at bottom left with columns was based on my primary school memory of going swimming at Hyndburn Baths in Great Harwood with primary school. It was a traumatic experience, but the grand building clearly impressed me!
(It doesn’t look like this in real life, but I was about 6 so I remembered the steps and the columns and invented the bit above my head).
#comics
If you’ve been wondering how low pay has been presented as a ‘cost of living crisis’, or why the essentials of life are getting less affordable , we’d like to recommend ‘the Money Trick’ in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 🍞
#TheRaggedTrouseredPhilanthropists #GraphicNovel #CostOfLiving #CostOfLivingCrisis #EnoughIsEnough #Economics #Comics #Capitalism #Socialism #StrikeDay #Striking #TimeForChange
Solidarity with all striking workers this week ✊
If you are inconvenienced by industrial action, remember to blame the bosses not the workers. If people had proper pay and working conditions there wouldn’t be a need to strike in the first place.
#strikes #strike #StrikingWorkers #EnoughIsEnough #IndustrialAction #TUC #Drawing #Illustration #TheRaggedTrouseredPhilanthropists
If you’re lucky enough to live in or near North Wales, we’ll be sharing some insights into our work and our creative process on 21 March at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire.
If you’re unlucky enough *not* to live in or near North Wales, you can watch it online too.
#GladstonesLibrary #LlyfrgellGladstone #Comics #GraphicNovel #AdaptingBooks #TheRaggedTrouseredPhilanthropists @bookstodon
A panel from No Surrender shows women smashing windows in prison to protest at their treatment by the government c1910. A reminder that nothing changes without action.
No Surrender was originally written by Constance Maud about women’s struggle for the vote and equality. Our graphic novel adaptation is available in all good bookshops and libraries ✊