Another Lewis Carroll Comic

"God Alice, why did I make
you such a dweeb?"

Most everyone knows Lewis Carroll was the 19th-century author who wrote the greatest children's novel ever written ever end of story thank you goodbye. (Alice in Wonderland, duh.)

But besides being a writer, he was also a mathematician and professor at Oxford, a notable photographer, and Anglican deacon. That's all well and good. So what makes him interesting?

Lewis Carroll, since an early age, suffered from a habitual stammer. This is not a stutter (where certain consonants are repeated) but a hesitation of speech. Via The Stuttering Foundation: One longtime friend, May Barber, described Carroll's speech, "Those stammering bouts were rather terrifying. It wasn't exactly a stammer because there was no noise, he just opened his mouth... When he was in the middle of telling a story....he suddenly stopped and you wondered if you had done anything wrong. Then you looked at him and you knew that you hadn't, it was all right. You got used to it after a bit. He fought it wonderfully."

Carroll developed a reputation as being a quiet and somewhat terribly boring mathematics professor at Oxford, and I'm sure the stammer didn't help.

This got me thinking. I wanted to make a comic about Carroll's stammer, because it's always better to turn tragedy into comedy, isn't it? So the following is my reasoning behind the stammer and what might've been REALLY going on there....