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[Cheddarius]

I'm looking for a certain style of comic, or book, or anything really, as the title suggests. They're hard to describe, but I guess you could call them... some sort of mix between melancholy, poignant, I guess... sort of heartwarming? Here are some examples.

Spoiler: Dinosaur Comics (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Calvin & Hobbes (click to show/hide)

Calvin's house is robbed. When he comes home, he searches desperately for Hobbes. Calvin says that his mother said that thieves wouldn't steal Hobbes because he isn't valuable. Calvin sniffs and says "Well, I think you're valuable."

Spoiler: House (click to show/hide)

House says to Wilson (this really only has the full effect if you've seen the episode): "If you die, I'm alone."

Spoiler: XKCD (click to show/hide)

The comic with the funhouse balls in the apartment.

Spoiler: Futurama (click to show/hide)

The episode with Fry's dog. The ending. Yeah, you know the one.

Where can I find media with these sort of themes?

[eerr]

Go read a bible?

[Cheddarius]

What is this
I don't even

[Hungry]

Spoiler: That Connie Francis song always make me cry... (click to show/hide)

also the best quality version I could find online was backwards and in spanish...but I got it on dvd so what do I care.

[Cheddarius]

Uh.
I sort of meant something a little more meaty. Like comics, they last days and days if they have a good archive.

[Jookia]

The ending to Life on Mars made me depressed.

[Cheddarius]

Good-depressed or bad-depressed?
Good-depressed is like the end of the Hitchhiker's trilogy; bad-depressed is like losing all your money in the stock market.

[Archmage Ansrit]

I have these songs, they are in Japanese, but they have decent subs so it's OK. I think this is exactly what you're asking for.

"A fake Diva"(Turn Captions on!)

"Heart" (there's another parot out there, if you like this) The message at the end is very blurry, so I'll just put it here in spoilers. I don't remember how it went exactly but these subs are accurate.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It was exactly a miracle.
The robot that obtained "Heart" kept singing.
She sang all of her feelings.

But the miracle lasted only a moment.

The "Heart" was far too big for her.
Unable to withstand that weight,
the machine fell,
and was never to move again.

However, her face was full with a smile,
she looked like an angel.

[Jookia]

Good-depressed or bad-depressed?
Good-depressed is like the end of the Hitchhiker's trilogy; bad-depressed is like losing all your money in the stock market.

Good depressed. You should watch it. It's only 16 episodes, each an hour long.

[Cheddarius]

Hmmm, interesting.

Ansrit, I was thinking more along the lines of a story-based medium, like films, TV shows, books, etc.

[Leafsnail]

Good-depressed or bad-depressed?
Good-depressed is like the end of the Hitchhiker's trilogy; bad-depressed is like losing all your money in the stock market.

Good depressed. You should watch it. It's only 16 episodes, each an hour long.

I wouldn't say it was totally depressing.  Still kinda odd though.

[Idiom]

Sad and sweet? I know I know one, but... shit it's on the tip of my tongue.

Find the tvtropes page for this and crawl the webcomics list there?

[Cheddarius]

GENIUS
Seriously, I didn't even think of that, but that would be an amazing resource...
Which page would that be?

[Idiom]

Which page would that be?

I can't find it. Fry's dog is under "Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming", but that's not quite right. I've been trying different word combination, but the problem with TV tropes is that the article titles aren't always literal or direct (such as "and zoidberg") and you have to know what the page is or what media has it to track it down.

Good luck. It may not even have a page on this.

[Cheddarius]

Hrmmm, thanks for the advice! I bookmarked CMoH, I'll check that out later.