In part, another annual tradition of celebrating my favourite composer's birthday, I have been reading a wonderful illustrated book, Faithfully Mozart, by Donathan Bixley.
The book was released back in 2006, in the year of Mozart's 250th celebration. This also happened to be the year when I became obsessed with Mozart (it probably didnt help that he was being celebrated everywhere!). So my 16 year old self begged and begged for this book to be ordered all the way from New Zealand for my 17th birthday. I stil treasure the book to this day!
It is a wonderful book, in which Bixley follows Mozart's life through his letters. So, the book is compiled of various written letters from Mozart, and beautiful illustrations to accompany.
This isn't exactly a comic, but it certainly is sequential, and I've included I nice piece of silent comic which took up one page of the book.
And if you can ever get ahold of the book, I highly reccomend it, even to non-Mozart fans. In the end it's just a wonderful illustrated biograpghy about an artist trying to make it big in the world!
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