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Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Milestone

This Thursday evening, the co-founders and creators of the groundbreaking comics company Milestone Media will be the guests on a special episode of Hard N.O.C. Life, bringing together a panel of some of the most talented voices in comics to discuss the legacy of the company that revolutionized the industry two decades ago.

UPDATE: The special episode is now available for viewing here.

Joining Keith on the special MILESTONE COMICS ANNIVERSARY episode:

  • DENYS COWAN – Co-founder, MILESTONE MEDIA;
  • MICHAEL DAVIS – Co-founder, MILESTONE MEDIA;
  • JOSEPH PHILLIP ILLIDGE – Editor for Milestone and DC Comics; writer for First Second Books;
  • SHAWN MARTINBROUGH – artist, Static for Milestone Comics; illustrator,  Thief of Thieves for Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics; and
  • ERICA WELL – writer, Icon for Milestone Comics.

The Milestone Anniversary episode of “Hard N.O.C. Life” will stream live at The Nerds of Color YouTube channel at 9:30pm ET (6:30pm PT) on Thursday, November 21. An edited version of the broadcast will post the following day.

As a primer for the show, check out this short documentary about the origins of Milestone (featuring the late Dwayne McDuffie) by Jonathan Gayles:

Keith Chow

Keith is the editor-in-chief of the pop culture blog The Nerds of Color, a co-editor of the comics anthologies Secret Identities and Shattered, and host of the podcasts Hard NOC Life and Southern Fried Asian. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, NBC News, and SYFY Wire. Vanity Fair calls Keith an "incisive interviewer and chummy conversationalist"

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