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New online shops!

November 18th, 2011 | by stef
Posted In: Birds Eye View

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!

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mike

The Silver Chicken (10 year anniversary silver coin)

October 31st, 2011 | by mike
Posted In: Birds Eye View

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”!!

Silver Chicken (10 year anniversary silver coin)

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!

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mike

Featured Book of the Week

October 27th, 2011 | by mike
Posted In: Birds Eye View

“Please Wait To Be Seated!”

“Please Wait, to be seated” is the third book of the very succesful aviation cartoon collection put together by Martin Leeuwis. It’s now avaliable in both Chicken Online Shops. This time he found 30 artists from around the globe to contribute and it includes 9 pages of “Chicken Wings” as well. This will hopefully hold you guys over until our 4th book comes out! My favorite part about these collections is that they include a lot of the great aviation cartoons from Gary Clarks “The Swamp” featuring “Ding Duck”. I love that little guy almost as much as Chuck.

Also, we are coming up an a very round anniversary at the end of this year with Chuck and his friends. So keep an eye out for special offers in our online shop and for more contests inside our forum and other events, ok?!

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mike

Chuck, is that you?

October 22nd, 2011 | by mike
Posted In: Birds Eye View

Hi Guys!
For this post I want to share an email we received from Croatia. Apparently one of our followers had spotted Chuck walking to his Cessna!
We love getting mail like this! Here is the letter he wrote:

Mr. Strasser, hi!

My name is Boran, and I am from Zagreb, Croatia. I’ve been an
avid reader of your comic for quite awhile now – and, as a small token
of thanks for the fine work you and your brother are doing, I’ve
attached a slightly ironic, real-life Chickenwings photo for your
enjoyment :) . With even the Skyhawk’s colors closely matching those of
your own drawn example, this photo – taken by me at Lucko airfield, just
outside Zagreb – shows just what you get when you have an airfield
surrounded by farmland!

Keep up the good work and many regards,

Boran

Thank you so much, Boran! Thanks for taking the time to write and to share this with us! Greetings to Croatia!

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