Gabriel Vargas

Gabriel Vargas Bernal (5 February 1915 – 25 May 2010)

Early life and education Gabriel Vargas was born in Tulancingo, Hidalgo, on February 5, 1915, and had 11 siblings. La Familia Burrón profiled a lower class family's daily comedic struggles in an impoverished Mexican barrio. The Burrón Family were represented in painted forms by Regino Burrón and Borola Tacuche de Burrón, Regino and Foforito. Vargas sat paralyzed because of an affiction he had suffered for the past twenty years.

The Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes stated Vargas died on 25 May 2010 at his Mexico City home. His health had declined in recent years but no cause of death was given. According to a statement released by this council, Vargas was "one of the greatest representatives of the golden age of Mexican comics" and an "undeniable reference point for the nation’s popular culture".