No Surrender: by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard

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I have not read many graphic novels for various reasons, but this offering from sisters Scarlet and Sophie Rickard is enough to change my mind. Her novel No Surrender was published at the height of that struggle and used as a persuasive tool by suffragists. Staff Picks for November 15, 2017 – It’s Cold in the River at Night, The Wicked + The Divine, Misty, Bolivar, Evolution and More! The prison sections have a haunting and memorable quality conveyed by the drawing and the careful use of colour.

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This 21st-century graphic novel version of Constance Maude’s No Surrender charts the plight of Suffragettes at the beginning of the last century. Nevertheless the Rickard sisters’ translation of prose to sequential art feels as important here as it did in their previous SelfMadeHero offering.As the women’s efforts become more strident so do to their ramifications, and a later scene of a hunger-striking Mary being force-fed in prison is unforgettable in its brutality. W) Saladin Ahmed (A) Eric Nguyen (CA) Martin Simmonds The fastest Avenger of all races straight out of the smash-hit "No Surrender" event and into a psychedelic survival thriller unlike anything you've seen before! A young woman is arrested for her desperate acts, and it takes extreme events to bring about life changing decisions.

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No Surrender, they felt, could be tweaked to bring Maud’s message to an audience 110 years after it was written. Maud was an active suffragette, writing fiction in the same era about her authentic experience of living a marginalised life.As with The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists the careful design considerations add to the period feel and authenticity of the book. In this faithful graphic adaptation, creators Scarlett and Sophie Rickard craft a compelling fiction that paints a comprehensive picture of social, political, economic and cultural life in early 20th century Britain that is still acutely relevant today. The same use of illustrated chapter headings sets the tone for each section and establishing shots give us a sense of space and environment. The Rickard sisters have taken an important social realist novel about the battle of votes for women written in 1911 and breathed new life into it for a new, younger readership in the twenty first century.

No Surrender review: graphic novel reworks Suffragette classic

Noted English suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, herself, described it as a book which “breathes the very spirit of our Women’s Movement. In their hands, No Surrender is newly charming, its infelicities smoothed both by Sophie’s fleet way with speech bubbles and by Scarlett’s absolutely delightful illustrations. We will introduce you exclusively to Newpay finance products provided by NewDay Limited under this Introducer Appointed Representative arrangement.Re-published in 2011, to mark the 100th anniversary, it has now been adapted into graphic novel form by sisters Sophie and Scarlett Rickard. Hailed by Emily Wilding Davison as “a book which breathes the very spirit of our Women’s Movement”, the fast paced story interweaves the lives of women from all classes working together to bring about change. This version is in full vibrant colour and reveals the stories of the characters, which were based on real people, including mill workers from Lancashire and wealthy society women. Much of No Surrender focusses on a cast of different social classes discussing their own viewpoints on the suffrage movement and, as with The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, that requires Scarlett Rickard to be continually inventive visually to ensure that reader interest is maintained and talking heads syndrome is never in the ascendancy.