Montero - 1 Original colour page - Romántica - 1971

Spanish illustrator who worked for the international agency Selecciones Ilustradas for a time. • José Montero Lacasa: A renowned traditional illustrator known for depicting scenes of everyday life. Although his heyday and early career came earlier, his work and collected editions of large-format drawings remained highly popular and were reissued throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
• Montero (as he signed his comic books/pulp novels): During the 1960s, agency illustrators (such as those working for Bardon Art or Selecciones Ilustradas) often signed only with their surnames on the covers of western, crime, or romance novels.