Heart of the City by Steenz for June 19, 2011

Ohhhh …

I think he does this strip each Father’s Day, but it still is just as emotional every year.

I don’t think it’s about single moms. It’s about children.

Happy Father’s Day everyone!…..Wow that is Really sad!! i think i’m gonna cry now!!! :(

It is about children and the effect w as parents have on our children. Mark has beautifully captured the struggle we all feel to raise our children whether as a partner or a single parent. Thank-you Mark.

A very poignant comment about not having a father around.Very Well Done!

…with a heavy Heart…

Wow!!!!

Awww!

Yep. That should guilt trip every divorced dad out there. Both those who deserve it and those who don’t.

Good job!

CANNOT READ…. OLD EYES.PLEASE, NEED ENLARGE.

I thought Heart’s father died. Either way, very well done and very sad.

i’m leaking after reading lio and heart today—great stuff mark.maybe lio’s dad and heart’s mom should hook up…

There are too many children in this world today with only a single parent. Sad!

Excellent! (Heart’s single mother needs to meet Lio’s single father.)

I, too, was brought to tears by this strip. I never knew my birth father, (died when I was about 6 months old) and my stepfather was good to me. But I know that the men were very different and do wonder who I might have been.

Heart’s dad is among the living, but he took off for Hollywood (I believe). He and Addy met when they were both struggling actors (again, that’s what I recall).

Addy gave up her dreams of being a Star for the realities of being a Mom, but dear old Dad jumped the other way.

I found this strip to be touching

I can understand why Mark reruns this one every Father’s Day. There’s no way he could possibly top it.

Every Father’s Day I miss my Dad who died twenty years ago.Great strip today Mark. Thank you.

Between Heart and Lio — a very beautiful message, beautifully delivered. Thank you.

I didn’t recognize this as a repeat, so checked the archive. I had to go back to 2003 before I found this strip repeated — not exactly “repeated every year!”

I never ever met Heart’s Father before in comic strips.

I chocked up on this one also. There was an arc where Heart went to N.Y. to meet her father, who was acting in a play, but I think he left before she got there.

Why is mom reading Heart’s private diary??

dalbino83, it’s a little different than if Heart were 16.

Wow… very touching. Brought a little tear to my eye… poor kid…

We were staying with our grandkids while our son and his wife were off on a little vacation, when I saw this. It still brings tears to my eyes. If it takes a village to raise a child, has our village failed? Can we, as a village, do better?

Late comment, but I’m crying… had to say “wow”!

wow…

rerun

Reading your child’s “privit” diary… almost never a good idea. This is one of the cases where it is.

10/10

its a 3 times rerun tho