Erik Martz

Caption Editor

Having written five novels, two books of poetry, the seminal, life-affirming biography of Martin Van Buren, the first ever Pulitzer prize winning screenplay on the life of the guy who played Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films (I Hate Manure: The Life of Thomas F. Wilson), and having single-handedly rescued a carbon-frozen Han Solo from the clutches of the vile gangster, Jabba the Hutt, Erik woke up and realized he was late for class.

After graduating from college with a degree in English, he embarked on a career as a cobbler in Italy, eventually becoming a 19th century slumlord in the five points neighborhood of New York City. And after realizing that this was actually a mixture of the life of Daniel Day-Lewis and the character he portrayed in the film Gangs of New York, Erik woke up in the shopping cart he was sleeping in outside of K-Mart and realized it might be time to get a job.

After graduating from college with a degree in English, he embarked on a career as a cobbler in Italy, eventually becoming a 19th century slumlord in the five points neighborhood of New York City. And after realizing that this was actually a mixture of the life of Daniel Day-Lewis and the character he portrayed in the film Gangs of New York, Erik woke up in the shopping cart he was sleeping in outside of K-Mart and realized it might be time to get a job.

After moonlighting as a freelance writer, bohemian Lothario, and all-around man-about-welfare-office, Erik, like Gatsby, saw the all-seeing eye in the sky, forcing him to acknowledge the decay of the American Dream and the Wendy's on exit 27. Having slaked his world-weary thirst with newfound humility and a Frosty, he finally admitted it was time to get down to brass tacks.

Mercifully, there are only two places for the world's miscreants: prison and television. Erik chose the latter, CaptionMax chose him, and the rest, as they say, is in uppercase. Except sound effects.