Both the collage novel, “Une Semaine de Bonté” by Max Ernst, and the comic, “Garfield minus

Garfield” by Dan Walsh, explore how the purpose and meaning of a piece change with respect to

its context. In “Une Semaine de Bonté,” Ernst pulls random photos from Victorian encyclopedias

and novels and creates an immersive narrative that causes the reader to speculate exactly what all

of the collections of collages represent. In the “La Cour Du Dragon” section of “Une Semaine de

Bonté,” A woman with angel-resembling wings is depicted along with a helpless man frozen

with what seems to be her halo rotating around his levitating body. In a later scene, the same man

is shown to now have wings that resemble those of a dragon, or demon. These scenes show how

a story was able to be followed by the reader although every single part of what they were seeing

came from entirely different works. Walsh’s “Garfield minus Garfield” takes a similar approach

to storytelling by completely removing the character Garfield from the comic strips, though

leaving the character Jon Arbuckle’s appearances and comments the same. This revealed to the

reader how depressing and melancholy the character Jon Arbuckle is and how the mood of the

work changes like night and day.