Press E-mail me with your questions, comments and critiques. Thanks to our own Derek Dingle and DC Comics' Martha Thomases, when Milestone launched we received coverage in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and TV programs. In mid-1993, office manager Christine Gilliam did up a list for a press release. That list follows. Afterwards, there were dozens more magazine and newspaper stories and a lot more TV but I’m not even going to try and reconstruct it all. If you want to skip the list and go straight back to my commentary, click here. By the way, the pictures on this page are all cover stories. About Time • Advertising Age • Afro Times • Globe Times, Amarillo TX • Ann Arbor News • Star, Anniston AL • Arizona Daily Sun • Star-Beacon, Ashtabula OH • Associated Press • Atlanta Business • BBC-TV • Berkeley Tri-City Post • Berkshire Eagle • BET News • Black Enterprise • Boston Globe • Burlington County Times • California Advocate • Carib News • Carolina Times • Carolinian • Charlotte Post • Charlottesville Progress • Chicago Tribune • Chicago Reader • Chicago Sun-Times • Chicago Defender • CNN • Columbus Dispatch • Commercial Appeal • Crain’s NewYork Business • Creative Entrepreneut-WNJR • The Crisis • Daly Nebraskan • Daily News, Palatka FL • Daily News • Daily Iowan • Dallas Morning News • Delaware State News • Desert Sun • Details • Detroit News • Detroit Free Press • Dirt • Discount Store News • E! Television • Eagle • El Paso Hearald-Post • El Nuevo Herald • Emerge • Entertainment Weekly • Entertainment Tonight • Estado de S. Paulo • Eyewitness News, WABC TV • Fairfield County Weekly • Florida Star • Fat Worth Star-Telegram • FOX-TV Good Day New York • FL Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel • Glamour Grand Rapids Press • Hackensack Sunday Record • Herald, Provo, UT • Herald, Grand Forks, ND • Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY • Houston Chronicle • I.D. • In The Mix, WNYC-TV • Independant, Gallup NM • Inland Valley Daily • International Herald Tribune • Interview • Item, Sunbury, PA • Kansas City Globe • L’Express • Late Night Live • Australian Broadcasting Corporation • Licensing Letter • Magazine & Bookseller • Miami Herald • Michigan State University News • Milwaukee Sentinel • Monitor, Mcallen TX • Moondog’s Pop Culture Radio • MTV-News • New York Newsday • New York Kids • WNYC Radio • New Word • New York Daily Challenge • The New York Times • The New York Times Sunday Magazine • News, Okeechobee FL • News Journal, Wilmington, DE • News-Herald, Willoughby, OH • Newsweek • Oakland Press • Observer Times, Fayetteville, NC • Oregonian • Orlando Sentinel • Out Now • Pensacola Voice • Philadelphia News • Press, Evansville, IN • Providence Bulletin • Providence Journal • Sacramento Observer • San Francisco Examiner • Sarasota Herald Tribune • Scholastic Choices • SCI Fi Buzz • Shelbyville News • South African Broadcasting • Southtown Economist • St Louis Metro Sentinel • St Paul Pioneer Press • St. Petersburg Times • Star-News, Wilmington, NC • Staten Island Advance • Sun Herald,, Biloxi-Gulfport, MS • Sun, Jackson, TN • Sun Gazette • Sunday News, York, PA • Sunday Today-WNBC TV • Tacoma Morning News Tribune • The Village Voice • The Orlando Sentinel • The Los Angeles Times • The Source • The Press, Atlantic City, NJ • The Business Owners-PBS • The Cleveland Plain Dealer • The Washington Post • The Bitter White Guy Experience, WBMB Radio • The Star, Lansing MI • The Metro Word • The Philidelphia Sun • The Cedar Rapids Gazette • The Jersey Journal • The Atlanta Journal and Constitution • The Wall Steet Journal • The Reuter European Business Report • The Vancouver Sun • The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA • Time Warner IE • Times, Valdosta, GA • Truth, Elkhart, IN • USA Today • USA Weekend • Vindicator • Youngstown, OH • Virginia Pilot • WCBS TV, New York • Woman of the Week Talk Show • WPIX TV News • WTKR TV, Norfolk VA • YO! Youth Outlook • YO! MTV Raps When I look at all this, I’m saddened to remember that in many of the cities where we received press coverage, we couldn’t get local comic book stores to carry our products. Equally ironic is that Milestone received a lot more attention in general media outlets than we ever did in the comic book trade press. I’ve been covered in the New York Times more often than I’ve been covered in Wizard (5 and 1 times, respectively) I’ve been in The Washington Post more times than I’ve been in The Comics Journal (3 and 1 times, respectively. In the Journal’s case, I suppose I should count my blessings). When Milestone, or "Black Comics" are covered in the trade press, it’s always as a group. There’s never been a solo interview of any Milestone staffer or freelancer in the trade press. On the other hand, Denys Cowan, John Rozum, Ivan Velez, myself and others have had solo interviews on TV and in newspapers and magazines many times each. There’s never been a story about any individual Milestone title in the trade press. I’ve had solo stories done on almost every non-Milestone book I’ve written in my career, DAMAGE CONTROL, DEATHLOK, SHE-HULK, CAPTAIN MARVEL, both editions of PRINCE, BACK TO THE FUTURE, ULTRAMAN, MONSTER IN MY POCKET, X-O MANOWAR, et cetera, et cetera. But ICON, for instance, has never had a story devoted to it in the fan press. Not even the year it was nominated for three Eisner awards (best ongoing series, best editor, best writer). What do we have to do to get some play?