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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' used the extra space to [[Anvilicious|Anviliciously]] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 drive home a stock-footage joke] in its [[Humongous Mecha]]''/''[[Another Dimension]]''/''Stuff Like That parody arc.
** Also, on the strip's anniversaries (and a few other occasions) the strip will feature a flash image to make the characters actually move around in the panels.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' has an excellent [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html example] (spoiler warning) of infinite canvas, though there are more original ways the principle could be applied. Using a really long strip to depict lots of falling is considered the ur-example of this trope, but it is also a very intuitive example. Ironically, OotS is actually printed as compilation books, so it remains to be seen how well this strip transfers to a limited canvas.
** Almost certainly influenced by [http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/zot/zot-03/zot-03.html this] episode of Scott McCloud's ''[[Zot (Comic Book)|Zot]]'' webcomic.
** Also one where Haley is knocked back so much by an attack she [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0518.html breaks through the side of the panel].
** It was also used to [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0750.html show multiple events unfolding simultaneously].
* ''[http://www.machall.com/ Mac Hall]'' used an [http://www.machall.com/woc.html enormous vertical comic] for an elaborate [[Shout -Out]] to the music video of Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice".
* [http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/62 This] Eegra comic is a particularly weird example.
* [[Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life]]: every single strip is a '''long''' line of panels. But the story is so good that you get over the scrolling.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' occasionally experimented with this, usually at the high point of a plot arc or during one of Dave's New-Year's-Eve dream sequences.
** In particular, the second comic [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10257 here] specifically [[Shout -Out|name-checks]] Eric Burns-White.
** And later on, {{spoiler|1=in one of those dream sequences... [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10316 right here.] }} Useful probably because it does use the 'endless falling' bit previously mentioned.
* ''[[Fans]]!'' had a couple of [[Mind Screw]] arcs take place within the infinite canvas. Despite the technically poor quality of art, the way it was presented was so good it actually ''worked''.
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* ''[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.
* ''[http://eastmostpeninsula.com/index.php Killer Robots From Space]'' has strips one frame tall but sometimes dozens of frames wide (it varies).
* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' makes perhaps the grandest use of the infinite canvas, to present [http://xkcd.com/482/ a logarithmic-scale depiction of the entire observable universe].
** And three strips later, [http://xkcd.com/485/ they go in the other direction].
* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20070602151344/http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/ The Spiders]'' is one of the best illustrated use.
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* The day that old ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'' ended and the newly rebooted and renamed [[Starslip]] began, [http://www.starslip.com/archive/20090109.shtml this] was the entire front page. Extra credit: the site navigation buttons are part of it, the "end" button is shattered, and the "back" and "beginning" buttons were functional.
* ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'' parodied [[Infinite Canvas]] on at least one occasion.
* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20051031.html This] ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' strip.
* ''[[UnwindersUnwinder's Tall Comics]]'' is named after the unconstrained height of its comics.
* [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1558#comic This] ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strip.
* ''[[Nature of Natures Art|Nature of Nature's Art]]'' ''loves'' using infinite canvas, both [http://www.nofna.com/?T=1-1-12-146 vertical] and [http://www.nofna.com/?T=1-1-12-205 horizontal].
* [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com Flying Man and Friends] lampshaded the infinite canvas in [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=242 this strip].
* Of course, ''[[User:DM Maus]]'' has [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1455.html had a stab at this]
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* [http://www.thepale.net/ The Pale] uses this throughout, each page a scrolling horizontal canvas with the 'panels' blending into each other.
* [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 Onon the Tin|his obsession with chess]]. It's about 16 feet long, done in alternating black-on-white to white-on-black panels.
* [[Dovecote Crest]] makes use of this. Most notable is the series of pages for the letter Charlie reads, from a Union soldier to his Confederate brother.
* [http://www.nettserier.no/jellyvampire/1304892000/ This] Jellyvampire strip, which is about pushing boundaries.
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