Record: Justiniano

There used to be an artist working in comicdom who went by the pen name of Justiniano, but whose real name was Josue Rivera. He was arrested around 2011 and convicted for possession of child pornography, similar to how the disgraced Gerard Jones was later arrested and jailed for the same offenses. And Justiniano also had at least a few stories and illustrations in his comics portfolio that were either demeaning to women, or they were forms of virtue-signaling that were likely drawn as virtue-signaling, in an attempt to conceal what a wolf in sheep's clothing he really was. Here's a few of the shoddy details from Justiniano's resume:

• In 2000, he drew a Beast Boy miniseries (written by Geoff Johns and Ben Raab) where Flamebird/Bette Kane was a co-star, and not only was she made to look like a bimbo, towards the end of the miniseries, she was depicted donning a more modest looking costume and sporting a shorter hairstyle in what was apparently the artist and writers' idea of how she should be a "serious" crimefighter, not to mention a form of virtue-signaling. If this had been done today, chances are high Justiniano would've taken a more woke path than what he did here in how to illustrate her. The loathsome design also appeared in the Titans Annual for 2000, also illustrated by Justiniano.
• In that same story, towards the end, Gar Logan noticeably hits a woman. It may have been a crook (supposedly a daughter of Madame Rouge from Doom Patrol, even though there's nothing in past DC history to make it plausible), but the way it was drawn was so alarming, it's clear it was meant to be some kind of reprehensible "justification" for wallowing in shock value.
• In 2005, Justiniano drew all 6 issues of Day of Vengeance, a miniseries written as a followup to Identity Crisis and a lead-in to Infinite Crisis, where Jean Loring becomes a female version of Eclipso, and the way it was written (by Bill Willingham) also made it look like one side of a conversation where a woman's being sexually harassed. This was easily one of the most loathsome moments from Justiniano's undeserved career.
• Towards the end of his worthless career, he drew some issues of a Spirit series (written by Michael Uslan), based on Will Eisner's famous Golden Age adventure series (1940-52), where a villainess insults Ellen Dolan by calling her a "fat ass".

At least a few stories illustrated by Justiniano at the time had traces of contempt for women, and one could wonder if that had anything to do with his taking the assignments. It's a good thing he was caught and jailed, and now his worthless career's been over for nearly 15 years. But who knows how many more artists like him will turn out to be terrible felons?