History DrivenToSuicide / ComicBooks

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* Creator/CarlBarks' "Dangerous Disguise" is probably the only Disney comic book story to ever show a character taking his own life - when a [[SpyFiction foreign spy]] fails his mission and realizes that his totalitarian leader will now send him to salt mines, he chooses to finish himself by jumping out of window.
** ... except for an infamous series of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse comic strips (the idea for which was suggested by Walt himself!) in which Mickey attempts suicide several times after being dumped by Minnie (only to have each attempt comedically foiled). These strips are among ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20236_6-insane-disney-comics-you-wont-believe-are-real.html 6 Insane Disney Comics You Won't Believe Are Real]]

* ''ComicBook/DiabloHouse'': The protagonist of the fourth issue's back-up story "The Art of the Deal" is an unlucky author who's so desperate for cash that he works as a ghostwriter for a {{Trumplica}}. After seeing that his book has resulted in his client becoming President of the United States, he decides to jump out of his apartment window to his demise.

* ''ComicBook/TheF1rstHero'': In the "Fight For Your Life" storyline, Cooper has become [[TrappedByGamblingDetbs so deep in debt with the mafia]] that he let them run an illegal cage fighting ring out of one of his warehouses, tried to sell [[TheProtagonist Jake]] to them to get out of debt, and killed Rodney in the heat of escaping from the mafia and the [[CapeBusters Extrahuman Task Force]]. By the end, he invites Jake to his house and tells him he has nothing left, before pointing the gun under his chin and blowing his own brains ons.

DrivenToSuicide in ComicBooks.

* Susan Smith of ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' attempted suicide when she realized that the teacher she had a crush on loved someone else. She's probably contemplating it again. Also had another character commit suicide when he realized he wouldn't make valedictorian. What is it with Batuik wanting smart people to kill themselves?
* In one early series of strips, ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} actually tried to do himself in by sticking his head in the oven because Jon was going to have him declawed. (Fortunately for him, it was an electric stove.)
* In [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2015/03/24 this]] ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip (of all places), Linus tries to catch pneumonia on purpose when he's convinced Ms. Othmar doesn't like him anymore. Lucky for him, he really doesn't like having to get wet to do so.