Sunday, July 12, 2026

Tom Tomorrow and Flaming Hydra

It's time for my more or less annual reminder to support cartoonist Tom Tomorrow's Sparky's List, as all of the publications that pay cartoonists go out of business in this media environment. 

With it, you get an early view of his weekly comic, which tries to make sense of this indescribable time we are living through, plus his additional thoughts on it, and comments on life in New York City and sometimes an inside view of minor celebrity culture from a guy who's been on the edge of things for 40 or so years.

This week he shared an extra comic, which had the benefit of informing me of the existence of flaminghydra.com. It's a co-op of journalists, essayists, and other creatives, many of whom I see on BlueSky. Not sure why I haven't heard of it before. Like all independent media, Flaming Hydra also needs subscribers ($3/month). 

Here's the comic, to entice you to subscribe to either or both... and to once again remind us all of just how batshit the past 11 years have been:

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