Squarriors’ “Team Ash” to Publish New Webcomic Series: Cigarettes & Carrot Juice
/The Nowhere Girls - the stars of Cigarettes & Carrot Juice. Art by Ashley Witter.
An all-girl gang rumbles with vampires, witches, and surf Nazis in 1980’s Santa Cruz.
CHICAGO, IL -- January 8, 2018 From the creators of the hit comic book series, Squarriors , comes a brand new webcomic: Cigarettes & Carrot Juice! Illustrator Ashley M. Witter (Squarriors, Doctor Aphra, Scorch, Interview with a Vampire) and writer Ash Maczko (Squarriors, Squarriors: The Card Game) deliver an intense webcomic lovingly described as “The Lost Boys meets The Warriors meets Riverdale.”
“Over the last year, we have been developing an original project that our friends and fans can follow as they wait for the painfully slow release of the Squarriors comics,” says Maczko, sharing his understanding regarding Squarriors’ delayed release schedule. “Cigarettes & Carrot Juice has an intentionally simplistic design that will allow Ashley and I to regularly release new content, even while we are on the road.”
With the success of Squarriors, Maczko and Witter frequently travel to attend comic conventions and share their projects and love of geek culture with fans. Since Cigarettes & Carrot Juice is a “completely independent project,” Maczko states they, “have the benefit of delivering uncensored, unflinching, and unapologetic content that Team Ash fans want and deserve.”
Cigarettes & Carrot Juice releases Valentine’s Day (2/14/2018) on multiple publishing sites like Smack Jeeves, Tapas, & Line Webtoon! You can also follow the new series on Facebook and Tumblr.
The Premise
In 1980’s Santa Cruz, a gang known as The Nowhere Girls defend their home turf against rival gangs that include vampires, witches, werewolves, zombies, and other manner of supernatural beings. In between rumbles, The Nowhere Girls deal with other day-to-day gang operations like recruitment, making money, and trying to break the dark curse that’s consuming the boardwalk.
If you would like to see more about Cigarettes & Carrot Juice, you can find 5 Questions with Ash Maczko about the new series here.
About Ashley Witter
Ashley Witter is a talented illustrator at the helm of the Squarriors comic book series, which received an adaptation into Squarriors: The Card Game on Kickstarter in 2017. Witter’s work spans from comic book covers like Harley Quinn, Red Sonja, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra and more. This isn’t Witter’s first experience with a webcomic series, having successfully launched Scorch on Kickstarter with Devil’s Due Entertainment in 2015.
Ashley Witter
Ash Maczko
About Ash Maczko
The writing talent behind the comic book series, Squarriors , is Ash Maczko. Maczko spins a brutal tale of survival and war in this compelling series and is the lead developer behind the conversion of the comic book into a competitive card game. Squarriors: The Card Game showcases the savagery and tactical prowess of war in a tabletop game launched on Kickstarter.