Matthew Sciarappa

Death of Love by James Blake

with this song, I am now willing to endure 2026 😌🎶

Cover for Batgirl 18. Batgirl leaping through a spirit world city populated with funky and colorful spirits.

My cover for Batgirl #18! 👻🏮📿

with an INCREDIBLE Cover B by @cjward.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Me, facing away to peruse a wall of poetry collections. I’m wearing a yellow and brown jacket and dark hat.

in my natural habitat 😌📚

A gorgeous platter of chocolate chip cookies.

🍪s

A photo of me near a window, holding a copy of Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood.

A list of my favorite books I read this year: 10. Cane by Jean Toomer • a form-defying, expansive requiem for Black American life. 9. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks • a gorgeous reckoning with grief/the only book that made me cry this year. 8. Seascraper by Benjamin Wood • a delicate work of gutting disenchantment. 7. See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid • a fraught and fierce family tale, uncannily entwined with Greek myth. 6. Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson • a profound yet personal examination of a harrowing medical mystery. 5. We Do Not Part by Han Kang (translated by E. Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris) • a piercing, political, metafictional whirlwind through traumatic histories, intimate connections, and layers of snow. 4. The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swan • an unmatched sequel in an all-time new favorite fantasy epic, in which a peripheral character claws her way to the forefront. 3. The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts • a wickedly entertaining, complex, and sensitive biography of not only the trailblazing politician but the community he served. 2. The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith • a well-curated New & Selected collection from a powerful artist. Transcendent, fresh, and daring—give Patricia Smith 40 National Book Awards. 1. Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood • a pitch perfect blend of content & form, equal parts attuned the the literary zeitgeist and wholly personal. This memoir is the real deal—an entrancing, metamorphosing, psychologically rich, sociologically incisive look at what it means to be an imperfect victim.

anyway, these are my favorite books of the year.

📖: www.instagram.com/p/DS20BtYEXm...

Picture of me in a red flannel jacket in front of evergreen trees.

he’s festive.

Morrigan, a green-haired succubus in what might be described as an 80s exercise leotard with a feathery lining at the bust. She’s got little bat wings coming out of her back and her head.

Chun-Li, a woman in blue with frankly massive legs spin kicking into the air

Two Capcom Queens

My cover for Batgirl #17. Batgirl standing on a gargoyle while holding katana and swirls of blood surround her. Gotham in the background.

My cover for Batgirl #17!

oh, Brooklyn! I missed you 🥲

pie, again.

annual PSA that “Turkey Lurkey Time” from Promises, Promises is, in fact, a Christmas song 😤🦃

pls say nice things about my pie 🥲

💛 That’s right—new Maggie O’Farrell! 💛

Our friends at People have just revealed the cover of LAND, a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after The Great Hunger.

📖 Out 6.2.26
🎨 Design by Holly Ovenden
🔗: people.com/maggie-o-far...

So, I won a National Book Award.

Variant cover for Phantom of the Opera, depicting a collage of the central characters.

My cover Phantom of the Opera #1!

Love doing these Universal Monster covers.

We nationaled, we booked, we awarded.

I wore a tux, everyone say nice things! 🖤

📖🍋

hi 👋🏻

Green Lantern Dark #7 Cover by Werther Dell’Edera and Giovanna Niro

Green Lantern Dark comes to a close today. My first project at DC, which led to Batgirl and so much more.

This book means more to me than anyone will ever know. I’m very proud of it. 💚

A photo of me, in a plaid flannel and red hat, handing out a copy of Gloria Naylor’s MAMA DAY at New York Comic Con.

An autographed copy of Everything Dead and Dying next to a comic con exhibitor badge

Me, wearing a black tshirt holding a large box in front of the Penguin Random House Comic Con booth.

The New York Comic Con sign

Worked a little comic con. Got to meet @tatebrombal.bsky.social, who was v nice 😌💥

Batgirl #12 is out today. A whole year in the books. I can’t believe it.

Pick it up wherever comics are sold!

someone please tell me why this cozy Bronxville cafe started playing “Pony” by Ginuwine, full volume at 10:30am 👀

Greta Gerwig’s Little Women.

a display cut out of Little My from the Brooklyn Public Library Moomin exhibit.

☂️💕

A wooden cafe table, atop which are copies of I DON KNOW AOME THINGS by Richard Siken and VIGIL by George Saunders, a red notebook and pen, a tote bag, and iced latte.

🖤🍂

Me, in blue, standing in front of a wall of vintage cameras at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.

preserving this v cute pic of me on a secondary platform thank you 📸

Photo of me standing in front of a blue wall, wearing a brown tshirt and hat.

famously, 32 🎂♌️