The idea of that an unreliable first person narrator’s story could be placed within the frame of on another first person narrative was very appealing to me as a device.  For some reason I was reading (or rereading) three classic examples of this device the summer I started work on this project. 



In The Turn of the Screw an unnamed narrator listens to a male friend read him a manuscript written in first person by a now deceased governess.  In Heart of Darkness an unnamed narrator listens to a story about an African river journey told in first person by his shipboard companion Charles Marlow.  Frankenstein is a letter in first person written by Captain Robert Walton to his sister.  He recounts another story, also in first person, this one told by Victor Frankenstein. 

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I remember thinking it might be even more interesting if the narrators within their respective frame narratives were all slightly different versions (personae) of the same person.  In the specific case of this drawing sequence that person would be me.