Don't You Smile, Lewis Carroll

So there's this guy. He goes by "Lewis Carroll" but that's not his real name. I think it's Charles Lutwidgedsdouehfso or something. Anyway, he wrote these books, and apparently they're really famous. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"--have you heard of that one? Some people have. I guess you could say there's an "Alice" cult running around out there somewhere, thanks be to Disney's Alice in Wonderland and then recently Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland With Johnny Depp.

So this guy likes kids, right? Especially little girls. I know what you want to say: "Little girls? Was he like a child molester or something?" And to you I say, "No idea. But let's not ruin the magic, ok?"

The thing is, I've become kind of very much interested in this "Lewis Carroll" fellow. You know, I tend to go for those tall, dark, handsome, stammering Englishmen.

So I Googled images of Mr. Carroll and found dozens upon dozens. Did you know he was a photographer? I know--how much cooler can this dude get? Anyway, I found photographs he took of himself.

AND GUESS WHAT?

Mr. Carroll isn't smiling. Not in a single photograph. And it made me wonder--if he was such a fun guy, playing with children all the time, hopscotch, hide-and-seek, Wonderland and what have you, why on earth wouldn't he show it on his face? Did he want the world to remember him as a pre-Emo Victorian artist who was a supressed homosexual? (He never married...hmm...)

Now I'm just jumping to conclusions.

I will now present to you some photographs of Mr. Carroll, to prove my point.



I am a sad young man and nobody understands my imagination.



Still very sad.



So sad that I'm bored to death.



So sad those little girls grew up. Now they're just bitches.



In fact, I'm just going to pretend I am important. Maybe that'll help.



Who knew, even surrounded by little children I cannot form a smile. Can someone teach me? No one?

OH WAIT--we're all Victorians! No wonder we're not smiling!!!

*****

And that is Mr. Carroll.

Now I will present to you a comic of my own making, a comic which negatively represents Mr. Carroll not because I don't like him but because he never smiles and so I am poking fun at him. He really was rather brilliant, and probably very funny and kind, but by golly his photographs could fool anyone, eh?

Hier ist das comic: