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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In this fable-like graphic novel by an acclaimed cartoonist and animator, two musician brothers cycle through rags and riches. Zusammenfassung In the graphic novel Amadeo & Maladeo! the aristocratic Amadeo begins his musical career playing violin for the King and Queen of Austria! while his penurious! illegitimate brother Maladeo plays violin for pocket change on a street corner. Both face the trials and tribulations of fame. Amadeo and Maladeo serves as an elegant and unvarnished metaphor for the hardships contemporary artists face and that appears to be a universal condition of civilization. Drawn in Blechmanâ??s expressive! patented â?owavy lineâ? pen-and-ink style! Amadeo & Maladeo is a story made powerful and moving by its gentle telling.
