In the 1950s, the Emmy-winning animator and New Yorker cartoonist R. O. Blechman created a proto graphic novel that was based on a medieval legend: The Juggler of Our Lady. More than half a century later comes Amadeo & Maladeo, 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 bastard-born 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.
