Lit. of Comics and the Graphic Narrative: Day One

Max Ernst Panel Translations:

Panel 1: The woman is imitating or dancing with the rooster.

Panel 2: A rooster man and a regular rooster stand over a sleeping/dead woman on a table.

Panel 3: Two rooster men interact over a presumably dead woman in an open casket in the ground. Another naked woman stands behind the two rooster men.

Panel 4: Two rooster men kneel on the ground next to a naked woman on a slate, in front of a naked woman on a table, and below a naked man standing high above the ground.

Panel 5: A rooster man cheers or stretches by the door of a bedroom that has the regular rooster standing on a messy bed with a woman sprawled on the ground in the blankets of the bed. Another rooster stands on the ground next to her.

Panel 6: A rooster man peers in on two woman dancing/posing in a room.

Panel 7: A rooster man sits at a table with two well dressed women, in what appears to be a theater. He holds a stick and one of the women looks distressed.

Panel 8: Two women in nightgowns hide against a wall, one with a goose behind it. A rooster man is at the door looking at a fallen lantern on the ground.