"Ted Allan in Spain: the movie, a Graphic Novel, first draft" is an illuminated novella.    The "demo" will be here soon!     Meanwhile....

January 1937 : Ted Allan turns 21 and readies to travel to Madrid to report on the Civil War for the Daily Clarion, the communist newspaper, and to work with his mentor, Norman Bethune - but Fred Rose, the Party Leader, as neglected to tell the Clarion... Ted Allan enlists in the International Brigade.

The travels to Spain with 26 other North American volunteers... The Brigade sends Ted to Madrid to report... (Ted's 26 travailing companions are all died "in the trenches" within six weeks of their arrival!)

When Ted tells Bethune that the Brigade is expecting his report on the Blood Transfusion Unit, Beth says, "Someone should find out what's going on here!" and appoints Ted, his protégé, as his political commissar.

Ted tangles with a bitter, and envious, Ernest Hemingway.

Ted meets with Robert Capa, THE war photographer, and his companion, Gerda Taro. In the movie, when Ted is trouble about how to handle the Bethune problem, Gerda suggests to Ted that he send Bethune to China.

Capa leaves Gerda Taro in Ted's "care". Of course, Ted falls in love. Ted and Gerda visit the front to report on the battle or Brunette...