Scarlett and Sophie Rickard are sisters who work together to make graphic novels. Sophie does the words and Scarlett draws the pictures. Scarlett has been drawing since before Sophie was born, and Sophie has been telling her what to draw since she learned to talk. 

They were brought up in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire in the shadow of Pendle Hill, and this landscape can be found in much of their work. They say they squabbled non-stop as children, and went in their own directions as young adults.

Scarlett has worked as a commercial artist, illustrator, signwriter and portrait painter. Sophie has worked as a civil servant, pub landlady, cabin crew and child counsellor. 

Scarlett and Sophie will be at the 2025 Lakes International Comic Art Festival launching their third graphic adaptation with SelfMadeHero, This Slavery, by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. 

This classic novel about women’s place in capitalism follows Constance Maud's No Surrender (2022) and Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (2020) which was Eisner nominated for Best Adaptation. 

Their first graphic novel, an original fiction called Mann’s Best Friend, was self-published. 

They work collaboratively from 200 miles apart, without arguing.

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