What can I say? A lot of me “helping” my dad as a kid consisted of the same type of activity. But I was able to get him back later when he offered to help me work on the Chicken Wings airplane. Suddenly I was in charge and he was watching. It felt kinda weird though, I have to say…
As I mentioned yesterday, I got to meet Gary Clark from “Swamp” last month.
We originally found him because one of his characters, “Ding Duck” is an eternal flight student who is just not very good at flying. But just like Chuck, he is a very positive bird who never gives up. Through google and searching for other aviation cartoons we came across “Swamp” many years ago and loved Gary’s work right away.
Years later, we were able to work with him briefly when we were collaborating while putting together the Martin Leeuwis books of aviation comic collections from all over the world.
While meeting with Gary in Brisbane, I found out that “Ding Duck” now has his own book. It’s a huge collection of all kinds of flight school, duck flying, and military duck cartoons and it is funny!
It was great to see how other cartoon artists work and what their inspirations are.
Check out Gary’s website. I promise you, youll be hooked!
Ding Duck book now available in our shop
The best thing for all the Swamp fans out there in the States: We now have the “Ding Duck” book in our shop! As far as we know, we are the only ones to carry it in the US, so if you always wanted to have it, but didn’t want to pay the shipping from Australia, here’s your chance!
We were recently interviewed by Phil Hampton for his “Webcomic Marketing Masterclass“.
In this unique product, Phil Hampton of the Comic Academy has compiled a wealth of knowledge and experience of successful webcomic artists about how to make money with your comics. It consists of a book, videos and a series of interviews with a whole range of artists (including us!), covering the various aspects you should know about if you want to prosper in the world of webcomics.
So, if you ever thought about making your own comic, or if you already are and want to improve your results, this would certainly be a great investment! Also, you would get some background information about Chicken Wings and what our secret of success is.
He offers a special starter price of only $7.00, inclulding a full no quesitons asked money back guarantee for 60 days. This special offer lasts for about 8 days as the time of writing, so you better be quick!
ONLINE SHOPPERS REJOICE!
We have a new online shopping system!
As computer half-literates, running our own online shops has always been a challenge for us in the past. But we’ve lived and learned (a lot!) and have decided that it was about time we reacted to all the feedback we received from you over the years. We really wanted to improve the shopping experience for you and make it easier for you to give us money in return for our “fowl” jokes. For this, we have focused on two major things: Simplicity and security.
We’ve thrown out tons of extra features and simplified the checkout process to a couple of easy steps. You will not have to sign up for anything or create an account! You will not have to be a paypal-user! You will no longer have to put in your shipping and billing info numerous times! All you’re gonna have to do is enter the data once, and every transmission of the data will be through Paypal’s secure connection. We have also added more items to our stores again.
To celebrate the launch, and to get all of you to do your Christmas shopping early, we offer a
20% discount on all Chicken Wings and Martin Leeuwis books until Nov. 26th!
To get the discount, you need to enter the promo code “chicken”
So, please check them out by clicking on the images below!
We have a very special day coming up! On November 8th, 2001, we sat down at night and invented Chicken Wings on a paper towel. So we have a few special happenings lined up for the month of November!
And we’ll start with this one: Some of you may be familiar with the American One-Dollar Silver Coin, the Silver Eagle. Now we’re proud to present “The Silver Chicken”!!
In the last years we have noticed that there is definitely a shortage of chicken and/or F4U Corsair coins out there. The Americans have the Eagle, the Chinese the Panda, the Australians the Kangaroo, the Canadians the Maple Leaf, the Somali the Elephant, and so on. You get the point. But no chickens!
So we decided to make our own, in order to do something special to commemorate the coming 10 year anniversary of Chicken Wings. We will use this coin as prize for more contests and events but you can also buy it online as a fun, special, and slightly different gift until our fourth book is ready.
The coins are made out of one ounze of pure silver and we have a very limited quantity minted at this time. And we will maintain a list on where these coins initially went to. A few of them we want to keep ourselves but you can have a limited amount. And the great thing about these coins is (as compared to challenge coins or other cheaper medaillions) that they will always be worth it’s weight in silver, so even your great-grandchildren will be able to inherit something of value, even if Chicken Wings ends up being forgotten by that time.
You can already get it HERE (US) and HERE (Europe), or maybe win it in one of the contests we have lined up this coming month!
