Ian McDowell
@ianmcdowell.bsky.social
Words. Pictures. Novels: Mordred's Curse & Merlin's Gift. Short stories in Asimov's, anthologies ("Geraldine" in Love in Vein). Journalism for YES! Weekly, Yo Greensboro
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
@patrickzircher.bsky.social is doing my favorite Howard-inspired comics since Barry Windsor Smith left Conan.
#5 Best comic of 2025— Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring #4 by @patrickzircher.bsky.social. I’ve revisited this series multiple times this year — it’s just a joy. Top-tier craftsmanship throughout, and Zircher absolutely sticks the landing. Hope he does more of these.
#BestOf2025 #ComicSky #Comics2025
#BestOf2025 #ComicSky #Comics2025
January 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
@patrickzircher.bsky.social is doing my favorite Howard-inspired comics since Barry Windsor Smith left Conan.
My article about how #Greensboro Mayor removed chair of the Minimum Housing Standards Commission for “disrespectful tone” towards a city attorney. Several commissioners called this “retaliation” for his accusing the city of protecting slumlords.
www.yesweekly.com/news/mayor-r...
www.yesweekly.com/news/mayor-r...
Mayor removes housing chair
At the end of the Nov. 19 meeting of the Greensboro Minimum Housing Standards Commission (MHSC), Chair Franklin Scott described how Durham City Council passed an ordinance making it illegal
www.yesweekly.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My article about how #Greensboro Mayor removed chair of the Minimum Housing Standards Commission for “disrespectful tone” towards a city attorney. Several commissioners called this “retaliation” for his accusing the city of protecting slumlords.
www.yesweekly.com/news/mayor-r...
www.yesweekly.com/news/mayor-r...
#ChristopherLee as Manolo the Uruguayan bartender in The Battle of the River Plate (1956) by #PowellAndPressburger.
#TCMparty
#TCMparty
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
#ChristopherLee as Manolo the Uruguayan bartender in The Battle of the River Plate (1956) by #PowellAndPressburger.
#TCMparty
#TCMparty
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This is the chapter where you either think wtf, or this book is amazing.
I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is the chapter where you either think wtf, or this book is amazing.
Realtor coalition sent outgoing #Greensboro Mayor email urging the removal of housing commissioners’ duties to study rental rates & inspect apartments. In one of their last official acts, outgoing city council voted to do that.
www.yesweekly.com/news/council...
www.yesweekly.com/news/council...
Council removes commission’s power to study rising rents, inspect apartments
On Nov. 18, former N.C. House majority whip Jon Hardister sent outgoing Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan an email from the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition (TREBIC). In it,
www.yesweekly.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Realtor coalition sent outgoing #Greensboro Mayor email urging the removal of housing commissioners’ duties to study rental rates & inspect apartments. In one of their last official acts, outgoing city council voted to do that.
www.yesweekly.com/news/council...
www.yesweekly.com/news/council...
While I’ve seen several of the other 1970s BBC #GhostStoriesForChristmas, I’d not watched this one until yesterday with @superamanda.bsky.social
Wonderful avenging kitty who kills the corrupt Archdeacon Haynes w/ “death by fluffy pantaloons” in the BBC’s THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL (Lawrence Gordon Clark 1971)
This great short film retelling of M.R. James was the inaugural Christmas Ghost Story for the beeb @ianmcdowell.bsky.social
This great short film retelling of M.R. James was the inaugural Christmas Ghost Story for the beeb @ianmcdowell.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
While I’ve seen several of the other 1970s BBC #GhostStoriesForChristmas, I’d not watched this one until yesterday with @superamanda.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My article from 6 years ago includes how we once celebrated Thanksgiving by watching #Godzilla marathons and why the Confederacy condemned the holiday as Yankee abolitionist propaganda.
www.yesweekly.com/news/5-fun-f...
www.yesweekly.com/news/5-fun-f...
5 fun facts for Thanksgiving table talk
*Editor’s note: There was a typo in one of the years in the last Thanksgiving fact. Godzilla and King Kong Day flourished between 1976 and 1985. It has been fixed
www.yesweekly.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My article from 6 years ago includes how we once celebrated Thanksgiving by watching #Godzilla marathons and why the Confederacy condemned the holiday as Yankee abolitionist propaganda.
www.yesweekly.com/news/5-fun-f...
www.yesweekly.com/news/5-fun-f...
I also asked the Republican-appointed Board of Elections chair about his claim that one has to “be born here” to have constitutional rights.
www.yesweekly.com/news/voting-...
www.yesweekly.com/news/voting-...
Voting not a right, says county election board chair
At the Nov. 18 meeting of the Guilford County elections board, chair Eugene Lester called voting a privilege rather than a right.
www.yesweekly.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I also asked the Republican-appointed Board of Elections chair about his claim that one has to “be born here” to have constitutional rights.
www.yesweekly.com/news/voting-...
www.yesweekly.com/news/voting-...
#AnnaMayWong & #VincentPrice in John Gerard & Lawrence Langner’s Princess Turandot at the Westchester Playhouse in 1937. According to Victoria Price, they were in love, but marriage was illegal under racist US laws.
#TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social
#TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
#AnnaMayWong & #VincentPrice in John Gerard & Lawrence Langner’s Princess Turandot at the Westchester Playhouse in 1937. According to Victoria Price, they were in love, but marriage was illegal under racist US laws.
#TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social
#TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social
I want to thanks @LordRetail.bsky.social for putting me in touch with #MarkWade , whom I think was right to call #MurphyAnderson the first comic book fan turned comic book pro.
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I want to thanks @LordRetail.bsky.social for putting me in touch with #MarkWade , whom I think was right to call #MurphyAnderson the first comic book fan turned comic book pro.
It was an honor to write this article.
Very cool news coming out of Greensboro NC aka Comic Book City USA! @comicsbeat.bsky.social @graphicpolicy.com @bleedingcool.com
Triad city commemorates comics legend Murphy Anderson
Recently, at a meeting of the Greensboro City Council, Mayor-elect Marikay Abuzuaiter announced a resolution honoring the life of comic book artist Murphy Anderson, who grew up in Greensboro in
www.yesweekly.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It was an honor to write this article.
Great quotes from @PatrickZircher.bsky.social & #MarkWaid for my cover story. Did you know that Murphy Anderson wanted the #SilverAge #BlackCanary to be Black, but Julie Schwartz said no?
#DCcomics #Greensboro
@superamanda.bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-c...
#DCcomics #Greensboro
@superamanda.bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-c...
Triad city commemorates comics legend Murphy Anderson
Recently, at a meeting of the Greensboro City Council, Mayor-elect Marikay Abuzuaiter announced a resolution honoring the life of comic book artist Murphy Anderson, who grew up in Greensboro in
www.yesweekly.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Great quotes from @PatrickZircher.bsky.social & #MarkWaid for my cover story. Did you know that Murphy Anderson wanted the #SilverAge #BlackCanary to be Black, but Julie Schwartz said no?
#DCcomics #Greensboro
@superamanda.bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-c...
#DCcomics #Greensboro
@superamanda.bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/triad-c...
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The operation in the Triangle comes amid “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” in which over 100 people have so far been detained in Charlotte, another Democrat-run city targeted by the Trump administration as part of the president’s efforts to ramp up deportations.
“They’re Just Kind Of Grabbing People”: Fear Grips Durham As Federal Agents Arrive
Federal agents detained at least three people as volunteers mobilized to track the agents through Durham.
indyweek.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The operation in the Triangle comes amid “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” in which over 100 people have so far been detained in Charlotte, another Democrat-run city targeted by the Trump administration as part of the president’s efforts to ramp up deportations.
Current & former housing commissioners allege being threatened with removal by #Greensboro city attorneys & council-members for suggesting commission should be penalizing slumlords rather than poor homeowners for code violations.
superamanda@bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/housing...
superamanda@bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/housing...
Housing commissioners allege retaliation
Multiple past and present members of the Greensboro Minimum Housing Standards Commission (MHSC) say the city has ignored concerns about slumlords and inflated rents. Some allege being removed for expr...
www.yesweekly.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Current & former housing commissioners allege being threatened with removal by #Greensboro city attorneys & council-members for suggesting commission should be penalizing slumlords rather than poor homeowners for code violations.
superamanda@bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/housing...
superamanda@bsky.social
www.yesweekly.com/news/housing...
@superamanda.bsky.social
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @gigdrain.bsky.social @michaelchabon.bsky.social
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @gigdrain.bsky.social @michaelchabon.bsky.social
#MurphyAnderson lived in #Greensboro 1950-60, taking over #BluebirdTaxi when his dad died & driving a cab while working on #StrangeAdventures & #MysteryInSpace. He once picked up Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford. He also drew this logo.
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
#MurphyAnderson lived in #Greensboro 1950-60, taking over #BluebirdTaxi when his dad died & driving a cab while working on #StrangeAdventures & #MysteryInSpace. He once picked up Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford. He also drew this logo.
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
#MurphyAnderson lived in #Greensboro 1950-60, taking over #BluebirdTaxi when his dad died & driving a cab while working on #StrangeAdventures & #MysteryInSpace. He once picked up Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra & Whitey Ford. He also drew this logo.
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
Here’s the design. City required approval from all rights holders. Nixed Buck Rogers due to rights dispute. Plaque will be in Cultural Center.
#MurphyAnderson
@PatrickZircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
#MurphyAnderson
@PatrickZircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Here’s the design. City required approval from all rights holders. Nixed Buck Rogers due to rights dispute. Plaque will be in Cultural Center.
#MurphyAnderson
@PatrickZircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
#MurphyAnderson
@PatrickZircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
#Comics peeps, #CityofGreensboro Mayor Elect Marikay Abuzuaiter has created a resolution honoring #MurphyAnderson, who grew up here.
Comment with covers or panels by Murphy you love. #DComics
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
Comment with covers or panels by Murphy you love. #DComics
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#Comics peeps, #CityofGreensboro Mayor Elect Marikay Abuzuaiter has created a resolution honoring #MurphyAnderson, who grew up here.
Comment with covers or panels by Murphy you love. #DComics
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
Comment with covers or panels by Murphy you love. #DComics
@patrickzircher.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social
If you need an alternate choice, this 1964 British cheapie is terrifying.
youtu.be/Pm5IJ7MG8NY?...
#TCMparty
youtu.be/Pm5IJ7MG8NY?...
#TCMparty
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If you need an alternate choice, this 1964 British cheapie is terrifying.
youtu.be/Pm5IJ7MG8NY?...
#TCMparty
youtu.be/Pm5IJ7MG8NY?...
#TCMparty
@SuperAmanda.bsky.social & I saved #CurseOfTheDemon to watch instead of Mario’s inexplicable choice.
#TCMparty
#TCMparty
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@SuperAmanda.bsky.social & I saved #CurseOfTheDemon to watch instead of Mario’s inexplicable choice.
#TCMparty
#TCMparty
“Grew them, as nature does, from seed.”
16th-century scientist/alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created homunculi from human sperm fed with human blood in a horse's womb.
#BrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty
16th-century scientist/alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created homunculi from human sperm fed with human blood in a horse's womb.
#BrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“Grew them, as nature does, from seed.”
16th-century scientist/alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created homunculi from human sperm fed with human blood in a horse's womb.
#BrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty
16th-century scientist/alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created homunculi from human sperm fed with human blood in a horse's womb.
#BrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM