Frida Kahlo Comic: Spanish Illustrator Tyto Alba Will Explore Painter’s Bi Love Relationship With Chavela Vargas

Renown Mexican artist Frida Kahlo had a successful artistic career with her acclaimed artwork earning accolades around the world, till date. The artist also had a fascinating personal life, which has been adapted to the big screen in 2002 in Julie Taymor's film "Frida" and on stage in 2008 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in "Frida Kahlo: Viva la vida!"

Now, Kahlo's personal life will be the subject of a comic book featuring her relationship with Mexican singer Chavela Vargas. According to El Universal, illustrator Tyto Alba will be featuring the relationship in "The Blue House" -- the title of the comic is a reference to her parents' home, which was known as "La Casa Azul."

Kahlo, who married Mexican painter Diego Rivera in 1929, was said to have had a complicated personal life. Not only was she bisexual and frequently had affairs with men and women, including Isamu Noguchi and Josephine Baker, but her husband is said to have had an affair with her younger sister, Cristina. Kahlo ultimately divorced Rivera in 1939 only to remarry him in 1940.

But it was reportedly in the 1940s that Kahlo got involved with Costa-Rican born ranchera singer Chavela Vargas, according to Hispanically Speaking News. The alleged affair between Vargas and Kahlo came to light in 2009 by the Los Angeles Times when a diary, supposedly belonging to Kahlo, described an affair with the singer. On her end, Vargas was open about her sexuality and came out at the age of 81 in her autobiography "Y si quieres saber de mi pasado" (If You Want to Know About My Past). Frida died in 1954.

In an interview, Alba revealed that his decision to chose Vargas as the narrator of the comic was after he observed inconsistencies in the statements the late singer made about her stay in Kahlo's home.

"In older interviews, she said some things and in recent ones, she said others," said Alba, who is making finishing touches on his comic book. "In some she said she spent a week in the 'Blue House' and in others she said it had been years. There is no documentation to verify the relationship."