When I’m conjuring a specific character, whether it be for a novel or short story I’ve written or, as in this case, imagining to life somebody else’s creation, I think of it as casting a character for a film or a play. I’d recently been looking back on a series of 101 small drawings I’d made during the first year of the pandemic, late at night before heading to bed, just drawing two or three pseudo self portraits on postcard-sized bits of paper.