Eric is a story of Americana and the horrific implications of what lies beneath its pop and artifice. A celebrated musician in the '60s and '70s psychedelic pop scene, Eric has become a drug-addled relic grappling with his irrelevance. Following a live TV debacle while promoting his greatest hits album, Eric plunges into a terrifying conspiracy spanning multiple realities, and takes a dark, surreal journey into the underbelly of American pop culture. Eric is the first graphic novel released by writer and illustrator Tom Manning since his critically acclaimed graphic novel Runoff .