Rubén Lara Romero is a Mexican artist best known as one of the main illustrators of Mexican 'Fantomas' stories for the collection Tesoro de Cuentos Clasicos of Editorial Novaro. Lara worked through the Rubens Studios and was helped by additional artists like his brother Jorge as well as Luis Carlos Hernández, Jose S. Reyna, Fermín Márquez and Agustín Martinez. The original series ran until the early 1980s. When Lara and part of his team left Novaro, they went on to create another masked hero, 'El Comodín'.
Lara worked on other titles throughout the years, including 'Del trueque al cheque', 'Detective Particular', 'Duda' (as Cosme), 'Elegidos de la Fama', 'Epopeyas del Anahuac', 'Fantomas', 'Figuras', 'Historia Patria', 'Jornadas Bíblicas', 'Juventud contra la Ley Lágrimas de amor', 'El Monje Loco' and several cultural titles for Editorial Novaro. In the 1990s he turned to so-called "Ghetto Librettos" like Almas Perversas (Editorial Toukan).
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