  We revisit the sgoldstino interpretation of the diphoton excess in the
context of gauge mediation. While the bound on the gluino mass might seem to
make the sgoldstino contribution to the diphoton excess unobservable, we show
that the interpretation is viable in a thin, near critical region of the
parameter space. This regime gives rise to drastic departures from the standard
gauge mediation picture. While the fermion messengers lie in the (10-100) TeV
range, some scalar messengers are significantly lighter and are responsible for
the sgoldstino production and decay. Their effective coupling to the sgoldstino
is correspondingly enhanced, and a non-perturbative regime is triggered when
light and heavy messenger masses differ by a factor $\sim4\pi$. We also comment
on the possible role of an R-axion and on the possibility to decouple the
sfermions in this context.
