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* The Webcomic [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] ''[[Crossover Wars]]'' features the nonlinear variation; partly as a function of the sheer number of webcomics involved, there were many intertwined threads—each having their own names, usually something like "Fantasy Wars", "Super Wars", or "Squirrel Wars" (!) -- which converged at the conclusion.
* ''[http://cwcomics.comicgenesis.com/alt/thisis/index.html This is]'' another non-linear one, a comic presented as a series of profiles for people, places and things, with links beneath explaining their connection.
* [[Cry Havoc]] did this [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225051926/http://cryhavoc.comicgenesis.com/d/20091208.html here]. which just appears to cover three fights at once, but comes of muddled and hard to see.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131112172641/http://www.drewweing.com/pup/13pup.html Pup Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe]''. It's very big, but not nearly as big as the concepts it embodies.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20111231081630/http://eastmostpeninsula.com/index.php Killer Robots From Space]'' has strips one frame tall but sometimes dozens of frames wide (it varies).
* ''[[Xkcd]]''
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* ''[[City of Reality]]'' employs this trope on many pages. It also sometimes makes use of Flash to alter the story, which makes the comic unprintable.
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' uses it [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2030/ here], and highlights the above-mentioned problem of horizontal scrolling.
* ''[[Parallel Dementia]]'' uses this a lot, most awesomely [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225063309/http://pd.milkinthepantry.com/?strip_id=545 here.]
* [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/hammock/estancia/series.php?view=archive&chapter=6545 Estancia] won awards for Best Use Of The Infinite Canvas - it had amounts of material roughly the size of half an issue of a normal comic book each presented in a one-pannel-wide column. The dialogue and action still flow smoothly, but when it was made into print books, the artist had to get pretty creative...
* The bonus strip for [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0344.html Episode 344] of ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
* [http://www.wormworldsaga.com/ The Wormworld Saga] is so far only a single chapter - but that chapter is over '''25,000 pixels long'''.
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* [http://www.damonk.com Framed!!!] used this a great deal, having significant parts of the story on infinite canvases that the reader needs to scroll in a loop to follow or presented in an out of order series of frames that only makes sense when you click on each frame to get to the next one in order (with some bonus frames that aren't linked to stuck in the middle). Damonk did a lot of experimenting with what the infinite canvas made possible.
* [http://scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/chess.html My Obsession With Chess], by Scott McCloud himself, chronicles [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|his obsession with chess]]. It's about 16 feet long, done in alternating black-on-white to white-on-black panels.
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