Someone beat me to it

Back in the early 2000s when I had ambitions of being a screenwriter I would often mock up trump cards like this for the characters in my current script, outline or pitch. This would help flesh out characters in my head, their traits and personalities. Often the image would be a shot of an actor who I imagined suitable for the role. This 'fantasy casting' helped with the writing process and how certain characters would interact in a scene.

In the late 90s a short-lived magazine called Cult TV would run a page of trump style cards each issue. The characters they featured would be drawn across the whole spectrum of TV shows - from cartoons to live action programmes, old and new. This would result in some pretty unusual potential face-offs in a game, such as Penelope Pitstop versus a Cylon. Or Spock versus Captain Caveman. The above were amongst my own additions to the magazine's cards which would enable a Kung Fu savvy cartoon hound battle against an ex-Borg.

These faux Victorian cards were for a show I was outlining for which Absinthe Mews was a working title (as was Gin Palace Junkies). It was to be a comedy drama series about the lives and loves of a group of artists and poets and their models and muses living in liberal Victorian Chelsea. Alas I was half way through the project when the BBC announced a new comedy drama series called Desperate Romantics - about the lives and loves of the Pre-Raphaelites and their models and muses in Victorian London. 

Someone beat me to it. Again.