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Do the workers need the millionaires? That’s what we’re told, that we should be grateful for capital investments that create the job opportunities we need to survive. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is the book that shows (with examples) how topsy turvy that idea is

“Women do not want the vote!” was a line the establishment tried during the struggle for equality of civil rights in the UK. Like with any form of democratic suppression, a good way to discover what marginalised groups DO want is to make sure they CAN vote

For anyone braving the hills with the dog today, mind you don’t lose your frisbee in the wind! This one’s from our first book, Mann’s Best Friend

There’s trouble at t’mill! A glimpse of the launch event for This Slavery graphic novel last year, contributors and links below…

jenniferballads.bsky.socialJennifer Reid (@jenniferballads.bsky.social)19thC Lancashire dialect, broadside ballads, weaving & community arts. Disrupting the folk scene since 2015. Barb in #TheGallowsPole. 📸 insta: jenniferballadss

The ballad singer is the indomitable Jennifer Reid jenniferballads.bsky.social and the actor is Áine Salha of Burnley Youth Theatre (burnleyyouththeatre.org)

pendleradicals.org.ukPendle Radicals – Extraordinary stories of radical thinkers

The choir at the end is East Lancs Clarion Choir (east-Lancs-clarion-choir.org.uk if you fancy joining in) and the whole thing was supported by the Pendle Radicals (PendleRadicals.org.uk) and of course @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. Incredible team - would recommend working with any and all ♥️

There’s trouble at t’mill! A glimpse of the launch event for This Slavery graphic novel last year, contributors and links below…

huckleberryfilms.co.ukVideo Production | Huckleberry Films | EnglandHuckleberry Films offers high quality live action and animated film production and media content across the UK.

The location is the stunning Queen Street Mill Burnley (Lancashire.gov.uk/museums) and the film was made by the fantastic Huckleberry Films (huckleberryfilms.co.uk)

Here’s the guest list for a dinner party in No Surrender graphic novel - little do they know there is a militant suffragette hiding in the house, ready to confront the cabinet ministers and disrupt their precious social order…

Whenever we get together with @myfanwytristram.bsky.social the conversation quickly descends into a) everything is political and b) let’s make comics about it. Myf’s book NOISY VALLEY is an inspirational collection of real life activism stories, we think you’ll like it

Noisy Valley by @myfanwytristram.bsky.social is published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social and available in all good bookshops and (of course) the monstrous one

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Science and Labour, a mural in opus sectile by JW Brown for Powell & Sons, 1901, one of the tiled murals in the foyer of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire. 1/2 #TilesOnTuesday

Do you live anywhere in this square? Yes? We need to talk to you about what you’re up to at the end of November

Look at this! Isn’t it amazing? You can see the full programme at bookfestotley.com/

We’re sharing a panel with pre-internet activist artist Jacky Fleming and courageous graphic documentarian Daryl Cunningham We’d love to see you there!

Do you live anywhere in this square? Yes? We need to talk to you about what you’re up to at the end of November

The last weekend in November will be the very first Otley Book Festival If you put it in your diary now, you’re less likely to forget or get double-booked We’re coming to talk about our books, but we’re a tiny part of an awesome lineup

No more wine for Sir Weir Kemp, the cabinet minister from our suffragette book, who prevaricated and worried about his own popularity when he could have been pushing for equality in democracy

Why graphic novels? This is a question we get asked a lot, usually from people who haven’t got the habit of reading fat comics yet. Once you give it a go, you may begin to wish all your books were told in pictures…

Tressell (who wrote The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in about 1910) was motivated by changing the prospects and opportunities for the next generation. You may be happy to put up with this shit, I paraphrase, but is it good enough for your kids? He would applaud you for being dissatisfied

In This Slavery graphic novel, the mill-owner runs for parliament. He’s already the town’s main employer, their landlord, and the magistrate. His wife runs charity dances for the poor. Any response but forelock-tugging gratitude is considered dangerous ideology. 💀 socialism! the terror! 💀

Happy birthday to Ellen Wilkinson, influential suffragist, trades unionist, communist, socialist, anti-fascist, novelist and member of parliament.

Wilkinson was steadfast and exuberant in exercising her principles. She was known as ‘fiery’ and was easy to spot with her bright red hair and vivid clothing

Wilkinson was Minister for Education in the transformational post WWII Labour government, but she died of long-standing bronchial asthma in 1947 (she was only 56). Well, she died of an accidental medication overdose, and there was inevitablespeculation about her state of mind 🙄

Happy birthday to Ellen Wilkinson, influential suffragist, trades unionist, communist, socialist, anti-fascist, novelist and member of parliament.

Born in Manchester, Wilkinson’s early campaigning was for women’s votes. During WWI she organised strikes for equal pay. She was instrumental in the 1926 General Strike and 1936 iconic Jarrow hunger marches (she was MP for Jarrow)

This Slavery has been out for nearly a year, have you read it yet? If you like Lancashire, mills, industrial relations, the politics of gender, matriarchal families, burning everything to the ground, and dogs - you’ll probably enjoy this story

Happy Birthday to Barbara Castle, Labour MP for Blackburn 1945-1979. She was our constituency MP when we were born, and here she is holding Scarlett. You cannot imagine the impact this woman had on all of our lives…

When Minister for Transport, Castle introduced speed limits, seat belts and breathalyser tests. Thousands and thousands of lives were saved! In Employment, she transformed the workplace with the Equal Pay Act. In Social Services, she introduced Carer’s Allowance and universal child benefit.

What a legacy! It must be true that every single person of our generation has benefited *at least* 3 times over from Castle’s work: safer roads, fairer workplaces, and a small but stable income throughout our childhoods. What an inspiration. Let’s all try to make something slightly better today

Rousing tea towels to brighten your day: * Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down * Unity is Strength * No-one is Free until Everyone is Equal * Many Hands Make Light Work you can get them from RickardSisters.com, with discounts for getting two or more

How long does it take to make a graphic novel? That depends…

On this day 130 years ago, died the poet, artist, publisher and activist William Morris. You likely have something in your home with a Morris & Co design on it. I bet your bedroom looks like this.

nationaltrust.org.ukRed House │ LondonDiscover Red House, the iconic Arts and Crafts home of William and Jane Morris, cared for by the National Trust

Morris felt strongly about beauty, design, labour, economics and communalism. You can see it all in practice at the National Trust Red House in Bexleyheath www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london...

Morris was about as successful and famous it was possible to be, yet there is still an air of tragedy about him. Here’s our homage to WmMo, a bed-time story for a peculiar child (from This Slavery graphic novel). It’s wide, so tap to see the whole feverdream 🦉 🎻 🏺 🌺

On this day 130 years ago, died the poet, artist, publisher and activist William Morris. You likely have something in your home with a Morris & Co design on it. I bet your bedroom looks like this.

Morris married the most famously beautiful woman of her generation, Jane Burden. They had two daughters, but the thing about Jane was that she was passionately in love with Morris’ best mate Rossetti, who painted her over and over and over again. Everyone knew about their love affair.

Morris was an idealist, a romantic, a socialist, an anti-imperialist and you could even say an early eco-socialist. More famous now for his influence on Victorian interiors, he was known as a writer and activist. He founded the Socialist League and a society for the protection of ancient buildings

On this day 130 years ago, died the poet, artist, publisher and activist William Morris. You likely have something in your home with a Morris & Co design on it. I bet your bedroom looks like this.

Morris was odd. He was bullied at school, they called him “Crab”. He really committed to special interests. At uni it was medieval art, and he called his close mates the ‘Brotherhood’. They were artists and poets who teased him for being bourgeois and erratic. He picked up a lot of their expenses.

The site foreman hard at work, in our graphic novel of Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

This image from No Surrender graphic novel expresses a view from 1910 that is still widely held today. It ignores the structural inequalities that steer women and girls into the jaws of the criminal justice system: poverty, abuse, homelessness and mental ill-health

womeninprison.org.ukHome - Women In PrisonWomen in Prison supports women affected by the criminal justice system and campaign to end the harm it causes.

About 3,500 women are imprisoned in England and Wales right now, and another 21,000 are under probation supervision. WomenInPrison.org.uk tell us that 7/10 of them have experienced domestic abuse and 8/10 experience mental health challenges. If anything is ‘invariably bad’ here, it’s this system

“What happens when you fall out?” people ask us. Here’s how we make decisions- almost always by consensus! We haven’t yet met any ‘artistic differences’ to fall out about. See the thread for how the fly leaves turned out 🪰

The fly leaves are the pages on the inside of the cover. They are traditionally blank or patterned. We like to make them themed to the story

Here’s No Surrender graphic novel, with the rosettes & glass fly leaves printed on the insides of the cover

More than a million families are being squeezed by rising private rents and frozen housing support levels, according to @resolutionfoundation.org Rent controls, and better quality standards, would change lives instantly.

publishersweekly.comNovvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI AssistanceThe Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. âThis is not a self-driving car,â notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. âItâs more like handing ...

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... so many thoughts and feelings about this, click on it for the full horror (it’s not long) My main reaction is why?

And it turns out that this Thing they have brought forth - because it has no creators, but has been stitched together from the flesh of stolen creative corpses - can never be copyrighted! So again, what’s the point?

If you can’t be bothered to make it, why would anyone want to read it? For me, the initials AI will always represent Amnesty International. Their slogan through the nineties and noughties? “PROTECT THE HUMAN”

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... so many thoughts and feelings about this, click on it for the full horror (it’s not long) My main reaction is why?

If we found a way to make a generic, soulless version of what we do for half the cost in half the time, we just … wouldn’t? It’s like a hungry diner choosing a plate of cardboard for £5 over a nutritious meal for £10. Why would you?