As promised, we are revealing the cover of our newest book today! Tadaa!
Chicken Wings 4 - Gold Rush
The name is “Chicken Wings 4 – Gold Rush” and we’re really proud about this book! Actually, we thought the last one was pretty much perfect when it came to colors and printing and binding quality, so we tried to make this one an exact copy. The big, official release will happen in Oshkosh this year. So, if you’re going to come to the EAA authors corner, we will be hanging out there quite a lot!

A week before Oshkosh, starting at around July 15th, you will be able to order it exclusively in our online shops. And after Oshkosh, it will be available in most well-sorted pilot shops around the world.

We’re really excited about this and are looking forward to how you all will like it!

Guess the cover contest.

Last but not least, we would like ot announce the winner of our “guess the cover contest”. This time we didn’t have to decide by the roll of the die, but it still wasn’t as easy as we thought. We have come to the conclusion that “Jupiter” from our forum has come closest to the actual motif with his guess “Julio holding Chuck out of the side door of the Roost Air Twin Otter in mid-air”.

Thanks everybody who participated, and congratulations, Jupiter, your unique print will be on it’s way soon!

Next week we will reveal the title and cover of our new fourth book that will come out this summer!
Guess the cover
As a little teaser, we thought we might give you a little clip from the cover and let you all guess what the motif will be. And to make it a bit more interesting, we decided to turn this into one of our (by now) notorious contests!

You have one week to tell us what you think is on the cover, and the person whose description gets the closest to the actual cover motif wins!

The prize will be absolutely unique this time, namely the #1 proof page that we got from our printer. It is literally the only one that exists!

Acceptable entries are descriptions or drawings! You can post your entry either on this page in our forum.

OR

on our facebook page.

DEADLINE for your entries is TUESDAY next week, May 29th 2012!

Anonymous posts and posts in the blog underneath the daily strip don’t count. We would like to be able to notify you in case you win the drawing and that’s easier from Facebook or the forum. If you’re not a forum member yet, all you need to do is sign up and post one post. We will not send you any of the annoying marketing campaigns, newsletters, and such nor use your info for any third party, honestly! To receive our newsletter (which goes out about every other month or so), you can sign up here.

Here is what the prize looks like:

Proof page

Good Luck!

Before take off, snuggled up comfortably in the belly of the beast. I'm the guy with the thumbs up.

So I went skydiving last Saturday!

Charlie, a reader, fellow forum member and avid skydiver set me up for a tandem jump at his club in Wr. Neustadt (www.paraclub.at), which is only 20 minutes from where I live. What can I say? It was awesome!!

It certainly was a unique experience for me! I was nervous and excited, but didn’t feel scared at any point, because Joe, my tandem master, had a very calm and experienced aura about him. The Do 28 D2 Skyservant, supposedly Europe’s fastest climbing skydiving plane, took us up to 4000m in no time, where we exited in a double forward somersault.

Here we go!

The act of jumping out of the plane was actually the highlight! Another great fact was that Charlie went on the same plane and took pictures of my adventure with his helmet mounted camera.

On the way down the three of us met and Charlie was fliming everything with his hemlet camera. I was so busy screaming and smiling at the camera (smiling at this speed really freezes your teeth!) that the 50 seconds of freefall felt more like ten seconds.

Hello! Nice to meet you! In the bottom left corner you can see the airfield.

It all was over quickly! I thought I would be able to see the plane pass overhead while we were somersaulting or to make a couple of turns, but I think my brain was so overwhelmed that it was impossible to take in all the stimuli rushing in on it. Joe then opened the chute and we were gliding down for about 5 minutes, enjoying the great view on this sunny day.

At this point, the fact that I didn’t eat lunch seemed to catch up with me, because I started feeling sick. But fortunately Joe didn’t make any hasty maneuvers or steep turns, so we managed to touch down before it got really bad. Note to self: Apparently not eating will not prevent me from motion sickness.

Charlie and me in the dropzone.

To sum it all up: I can only recommend this to all you boys and girls out there! And I would like to thank Charlie and Joe and everybody at the club for this amazing experience!! I hope I’ll be able to repeat this some day…

Tell us about your favorite strip and enter to win a Silver Chicken!

It is still our 10th anniversary year and we thought we should have another event to celebrate with you guys. So we decided to give away one of the last few remaining “Silver Chicken” coins that we had minted for this occasion and have another contest for you!

Even though silver hasn’t spiked again since May 2011, it’s still worth double than what it was 2 years ago. Here is your chance to win one!

Silver Chicken (10 year anniversary silver coin)
This one is an easy one and everybody gets one vote.

Simply tell us which one of our comic strips is your favorite and you’re automatically entered for the drawing of another Silver Chicken!

Here is how:

Tell us either the name or the number of your favorite strip (or explain the set-up and/or punchline of the strip) by posting on this page in our forum.

OR

on our facebook page.

The strip number is found between the panels after the “© Michael and Stefan Strasser”.

DEADLINE for your entries is FRIDAY next week, April 27th 2012!

Anonymous posts and posts in the blog underneath this blog post or the daily strip don’t count. We would like to be able to notify you in case you win the drawing and that’s easier from Facebook or the forum. If you’re not a forum member yet, all you need to do is sign up and post one post. We will not send you any of the annoying marketing campaigns, newsletters, and such nor use your info for any third party, honestly! To receive our newsletter (which goes out about every other month or so),
you can sign up here.

Good Luck!