Newspaper Comics/Tear Jerker

Series with pages dedicated to Tear Jerker moments:


 * Calvin and Hobbes
 * Footrot Flats
 * FoxTrot
 * Garfield

"Television to an empty room: Leading off the news tonight, six Israeli children died early today when the bus they were riding in exploded in downtown Jerusalem. [beat] They were little kids... With backpacks filled with sandwiches and juice and gym socks and math books. They had bedrooms with pictures of race cars and soccer players, and they had unmade beds with Spider-Man sheets. They had little sisters and dentist appointments and cats and jeans with holes in the knee. They took piano lessons on Tuesday and spent Sunday afternoons with their dads, who made them hold hands whenever they crossed a street. And on the wall of the hall to their bedrooms was a long line of photos, with each of their annual school pictures placed chronologically... ... by a mom... ... who kissed her son goodbye that morning and watched him board the bus that exploded in downtown Jerusalem."
 * The final panel of Opus. G-goodnight, Opus...you will be missed...* sob*
 * The final moment of Outland, Opus with his mother, finally always makes me bawl.
 * The end of Bloom County, with all the characters going off and ending an amazing friendship, then Opus going to the other Side of the tracks...just thinking about it is making me misty eyed.
 * Pearls Before Swine. Your Mileage May Vary on this one. 2003 Memorial Day strip.
 * Also the introduction of Andy, the dog who's stuck on "a chain that gets a little weaker every time I pull against it... a chain that one day's gonna break."
 * This comic, February 7, 2010.
 * Also, this.

"Pig: What happened... ? Rat: You dumb pig, you jumped off the roof and smacked into the... [beat panel]] moon. |undefined"
 * When Pig is injured and half-asleep in the hospital after jumping off the roof, believing he was a butterfly:


 * In the final Krazy Kat strip,, and you just know the guilt will torment Officer Pupp all his life, as
 * Er, huh? That's the last published strip, and while I've heard the "Krazy's " theory before, Herriman had additional strips half-finished at the time he "died", and in them, Krazy was
 * Noden the cat makes it home.
 * Red & Rover had a strip after the Columbia disaster where a boy and his dog were sitting in their backyard in a cardboard box they'd painted to resemble a space shuttle and little kiddy space helmets. There's only one speech bubble, where the boy says "Some stars shine brighter than most- to show us all the way.", and in the sky, there are 17 stars, for all the NASA astronauts ever lost while contributing to the space programme.
 * The Staton & Curtis era of Dick Tracy has featured annual 9/11 tribute strips. Their first (a Sunday panel, which fell on the 10th anniversary of the attacks) was especially poignant and heartbreaking.
 * Candorville: Roxanne has been hateful, spiteful, and generally overbearing. Then...the last panel.
 * The For Better or For Worse strip where Farley died.
 * The Lockhorns At first it just seems like a "haha they dont like eachother" comic with no other punchline. But think about it. They are miserable. Their marriage is dead. They seem to be incapable of feeling anything for each other other than dull anger expressed through bored hurtful remarks. At one point they must have liked each other, they must have been in love at one point, or else they never would have married each other. For some, it hits a little too close to home...
 * Practically every single moment of Charlie Brown's life could be described as a tearjerker. He's just a perfectly nice little boy,destined to forever have all his victories, no matter how small or insignificant, cruelly snatched away from him. But he's just so brave. He never gives up. Which sometimes makes it sadder. There's only one time he's actually managed to win at something, which was a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Charlie Brown is the kind of character you just want to hug.