The Lake Erie Monster

TONIGHT! The monster movie classic Humanoids From The Deep (the one from 1980) is screening at Midnight at The Capitol Theatre. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, this is THE opportunity to catch it for the first time on the big screen!

Unfortunately, we will not be releasing The Lake Erie Monster #5 at the screening, as we had planned. However, John G had some health issues in April that pushed the drawing process back a little. We’ll be posting again when we have some more details about the release when it’s closer to being finished.

We will be set up there tonight with copies of The Lake Erie Monster issues 2-4, and prints of this Humanoids poster, as well as a few other poster prints from the archives!

Hey Kids! The fourth terrifying issue of The Lake Erie Monster is finally here and available! We’re hard at work on The Lake Erie Monster #5 over here at Shiner Comics HQ, but we’ll be sending our henchmen out to deliver copies to all our awesome local retailers in the coming week. For those non-local loyal readers, you can always order directly from us by way of Shiner Comics Store. Issues #2 and #3 are still available, and we do have a digital version of issue #1 listed (a second print edition will be available very very soon!).

Jake Kelly and John G will also be at this year’s Cinema Wasteland (at the Holiday Inn in Strongsville), the weekend of April 5th-7th, on hand to sell and sign copies of The Lake Erie Monster comics and posters, sharing a booth with Cleveland Cinemas and Phantom Pain Films!

Scene Magazine’s first annual Comics Issue is out and on the stands this week! They’ve assembled 5 local comic creators to breakdance on the loose theme of Cleveland: Past, Present, Future, including The Lake Erie Monster’s own John G and Jake Kelly, along with Gary and Laura Dumm, MJ Robinson and Kevin Czapiewski!

Jake contributed a Commodore’s Cleveland page to the issue, more of which can be found in the pages on The Lake Erie Monster comics books! (still available online or at select Cleveland area retailers):

John G’s contribution is this odd look into the world of the Gordon’s Square and life of The Non-Temporal Man:

Here’s MJ Robinson’s conversation with surly ol’ Cleveland, The Dog. Be sure to head over to mjcomics.com to check out more of her clever and awesome comics:

Gary and Laura Dumm take on our most loved and respected sometimes home for Monsters, but always a source of pride and debate, The LAKE ERIE:

Lastly, but never leastly, Kevin Czap takes us on a walk through the probably future to Perf House with some lovable future youths, I like these kids:

The Lake Erie Monster #2 is NOW AVAILABLE all over the Cleveland area! Our retailers are listed on the Buy The Comic page (and as of this posting all but Comic Heaven in Willoughby have it). Plus, we’ve added one of our new advertisers, Joy Machines bike shop on West 25th, to the ranks of retailers selling the comic. Please support these retailers! They are all locally owned small businesses and are really really awesome at what they do.

If you are not from Cleveland, The Lake Erie Monster #2 is also available for mail order in the Shiner Comics Store. The print edition of The Lake Erie Monster #1 is SOLD OUT, but the digital version is only ONE DOLLAR. It’s the same exact comic, only as a pdf file you can read on any computer or tablet.

Big Thanks to our friends at Blue Arrow Records, DJ John Neely, and everybody that came to the release party for The Lake Erie Monster #2! We had a blast again, and it was fun meeting some new friends and hanging out with everybody!

The highly anticipated and much feared second issue of Cleveland’s horror anthology comic, The Lake Erie Monster, is coming! The release party is at Blue Arrow Records (16001 Waterloo Rd) on Saturday, July 28th from 6pm to 9pm! J. Kelly and John G have raised the stakes with their sophomore issue by adding pages and upping the print run, after the first issue SOLD OUT in just over one month!

In this issue we continue the gruesome flagship tale with Part 2 of The Lake Erie Monster “movie adaptation” as written by J. Kelly and illustrated by John G. We also have J. Kelly’s terrifying take on the violence of vegetation with our back-up story GREENS. Of course you’ll find another of The Commodore’s Cleveland pages, along with slightly even more artful and zany ads for your favorite local small businesses (often remarked on as a favorite part of the comic)!

Keep your attention focused on this website here for previews and updates as the clock ticks down to July 28th, 2012!

There will be a exclusive limited edition signed and numbered screen print, exquisitely printed by friend of The Commodore Kate Tobin, available for the first 30 people who buy the comic. Also available will be a free Map of Cleveland Oddities, pins, stickers, and more! John Neely, of WCSB’s “The Big O” will return to the turntables to spin only the finest and most revered of Ohio’s own rock n’ roll records.

This release is happening in tandem with the release of Cleveland’s Rock Destroyers ALL DINOSAURS‘ sophomore full length LP, The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior! The band will be playing a release show at The Beachland Tavern with friends and local punk heroes Two Hand Fools, and Natural Disasters (From Kalamazoo, Mi)!

Not only have we heard The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior, but we’ve have had it absolutely cranked in The Volcano as we’ve been grinding away on The Lake Erie Monster #2 and other mysterious occult projects. You need to own this record! The best way to ensure that you get yourself a copy is to PRE-ORDER it through ALL DINOSAURS’ Kickstarter project page, where there’s multitudes of incentive options from just ordering the digital release ($5), to having the band come play wherever you want ($300). In particular, at the $25 pledge and up, you will get both Paranoid Indigenous (All Dinosaurs’ first record), The Rules of Civility and Decent Beghavior, and an exclusive limited edition print by The Lake Erie Monster’s own John G. Additionally, at the $150 pledge, which there are 2 options for, you will receive one of John G’s original drawings either for the poster for the show of the video premier for “Castle of Uncle Robert” or the poster for Paranoid Indigenous! Please see the post on John G’s blog for further info about that and images of the art!