Amadeo & Maladeo: A Musical Duet

by R O Blechman, R O Blechman (Other)

Overview

In this fable-like graphic novel by an acclaimed cartoonist and animator, two musician brothers cycle through rags and riches.
Drawn in Blechman’s expressive, patented “wavy line” pen-and-ink style, Amadeo & Maladeo is the tale of two Mozart-esque half brothers. The aristocratic Amadeo begins his musical career playing violin for the King and Queen of Austria, while penurious, illegitimate Maladeo plays violin for pocket change on a street corner. Both face the trials and tribulations of fame as their stories intertwine and come full circle. Amadeo and Maladeo serves as an elegant and unvarnished metaphor for the hardships contemporary artists face, which appears to be a universal condition of civilization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606999158
Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Publication date:	03/21/2016
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

R.O. Blechman, born in Brooklyn 1930, is an American animator, illustrator, children’s book author, graphic novelist, and editorial cartoonist. In 1984, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in
Animated Programming for The Soldier’s
Tale. In 1999, he was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame, and in
2011 he received the National Cartoonists Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime
Achievement Award. He is also known for The Juggler of Our Lady (1953), Alka-Seltzer commercials, and multiple New Yorker covers.