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Copper is a comic strip by Kazu Kibuishi that has enjoyed both web comic and print appearances.
The web comic began in April 2002 in a larger than usual square format. Except for the first page, the comic is in color.
The large format may account in part for the slow schedule - updates occur monthly at best. By the time the comic went on a brief hiatus at the end of 2004 only 23 pages had appeared, with publication set to resume in February 2005. Each page tells a self-contained story, but there are a few recurring characters.
An 18-page Copper story, "Maiden Voyage", drawn in a more conventional comic book format,appears in the comic theme anthology Flight Volume 1, edited by Kibuishi (ISBN 1582403813, 2004).
In each self-contained story the boy Copper and his talking dog Fred journey through a detailed but economically-drawn landscape - sometimes beautiful, sometimes bleak, sometimes surreal. Fred usually has some pithy comment to make on their circumstances, while Copper is generally more sanguine. The first three strips suggest that their adventures are dreams, but after that the question is left open. Copper is haunted by two mysterious girls: a redhead who appears to be trapped inside a purple bubble that always floats just out of Copper's reach; and a dark-haired girl with amber sunglasses who always taunts him from a distance. Fred also suffers girl trouble when to his horror he falls in love with a female dog owned by another girl.
The 18-page story "Maiden Voyage" sees Copper building an airplane from parts purchased at the local Plane*Mart supermarket, while Fred constantly frets that the plane might crash. Copper finally persuades Fred to help him finish the plane, and then just as the plane is taking off, the wings fall off....
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