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== Webcomics ==
* As of December 2010, over 40% of the entire run of ''[[Dead Winter]]'' focused on the events of a single day.
* [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]] had an entire summer arc... that took over a year.
* ''[[Something Positive]]'' sets entire plot arcs on the day the arc is supposed to end. This is usually done for holidays (for example, an arc set on Valentine's Day will start early in February and hopefully end on the 14th).
* ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' As of [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/60 Page 60] where this is [[Lampshaded]] the whole comic has taken place in one day. that same page also mentions that there will be two flashbacks coming before the day is done.
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' from [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=242&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 Chapter 3, Page 14] to (as of writing this) Chapter 28 takes place over only a few months of comic time, from the end of the school year to the Moon's End Festival. Faen's fleeing was originally drawn in 2003, which means it took 7 years real time for Ariel to rescue Faen. Talk about "The Longest Wait"!
** Additionally, one fan humorously pointed out that one character had been carrying [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=631 another's dead body] [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5843 for three years].
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** Notable example: when {{spoiler|1=[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=971 Max comes back]}}.
* The first 14 chapters of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' took about two years of real time, and covered Annie's first semester at the Court. Ironically, chapter 14 took the entire (real time) summer of 2007 to show the last day (webcomic time) before summer holiday. The author even noted this as such in Chapter 8 with "that night seemed to go on for months".
* The [[Final Boss]] battle and ending in ''[[Adventurers!]]!'' might have taken about two to three hours of real time, at most, but covered the last two years of the comic's run.
* Belatedly pseudo-averted in ''[[Least I Could Do]]'', where there's a mini-arc in which the author and artist send a letter to the characters stating that they will no longer be "forever 24", and that they will begin to age like normal people do. It's not truly averted, since several minutes happen during days or even weeks, but the characters aging still counts.
** It can be insinuated, though, that several days to weeks can occur in between story arcs, with the stand-alone gag-a-day comics being only a snippet of the daily lives of the characters. Then again, maybe this is just [[MST3K Mantra|thinking a little too hard]].
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* [[Tweep]] spent about 10 months on a single evening where two characters went on a date and three others went to a club. That's not counting the rest of the day before that, which took nearly 6 months.
* Although not as significant as some of the other examples, it's still very real in [[Slice of Life]] comic [[Gender Swapped]]. It was even [[Lampshaded]] on page 34. That's right, not even 50 pages in and the author was cracking Meta.
* As [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=77 pointed out by the author], [[Freak Angels]] spent the first year of its run (at 6 pages per week!) covering a period of less than 24 hours.
* ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' has some odd timeline problems, but according to [[Word of God]], it's intentional, and the timeline isn't set, [[Comic Book Time|it's all just happening "right now"]]. Even the flashbacks, and [[The Rashomon|revisiting previous events]].
* On at two separate occasions this has been [[Lampshaded]] in [[SSDD]] when Kingston [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20021115.html notices] that he doesn't recall anything that happened during a timeskip after a lengthy story arc. The other characters usually attribute it to his [[Immune to Drugs|massive drug use]].
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* In ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'', the "Dinner for Six" arc took place mainly over two days, with most of the story covering a couple of hours, but ran for five and a half months. "The Popsicle War," which covered about six weeks in-comic, ran for a year. "Missing Person," which covered less than twenty-four hours, ran for three and a half months.
** The comic began in 2004 real-world time towards the end of the main characters' first year of high school. The comic ended in 2011 with a storyline depicting their final summer vacation of high school before their senior years started. Writer T Campbell [[Word of God|confirmed on the forum]] that the comic is meant to take place in the current real-world year, though throughout the strip the characters continuously make references to pop culture and real-world events that have happened in the intervening real-world years.
* Alice and her friends are implied to be in in 6th and 7th grade from 1999-2005 in the webcomic of the same name. During that time, they celebrated numerous Christmas and Halloween events as well as Dot's mother having a ''fifth'' child.
* Averted with the Webcomic version of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'', which takes place in real-time.
* ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' apparently took place over two years, although the summer internship arc took place over a couple weeks.
* In [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com Flying Man and Friends], the characters begin a journey (with an elephant pulling their house) in [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=244 this strip], and don't actually seem to go anywhere until [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=272 nearly a month later].
* The [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=113529 "VilAnon"] chapter of ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' had Jane telling her life story over the course of one evening, but took 15 months of real time to complete.
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* An angry mob in ''[[Instant Classic]]'' [http://www.instantclassic.net/bd/index.php?comic=52 shows up] in a comic dated September 2007, but doesn't actually [http://www.instantclassic.net/bd/index.php?comic=85 do anything] until June 2009. "... How long have we been standing out here...?"
* The entirety of ''Two Weeks Notice'' [http://www.drunkduck.com/two_weeks_notice is supposed to take place over a singular period of two weeks] but has been running for over a year, even though the author has talked about ending it for more than half of that.
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Although ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' was not immune to [[Webcomic Time|this trope]], it has always managed to even out comic time vs. real time in the end. It remains to be seen to what extent its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' will stick to this, considering that the story there starts three years later than the end of SGR, ergo in 2012.
* It's hard to tell, but it seems like only at most two months have passed in the last seven years of ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''.
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* In ''[[The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat]]'', Doggy is about to get hit by a giant snowball rolling down a hill, and between the days the comic doesn't update, builds a ramp to send the snowball back to where it came.
* ''[[Enjuhneer]]'' has lampshaded this as the result of "[[Timey-Wimey Ball|putting Pocky in a time machine]]."
* ''[[Think Before You Think]]'', in [http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20110211-becky-sings this comic].
{{quote|'''Julia:''' It's like every day is several weeks long. }}
* [[A Loonatics Tale]] solves the problem by ignoring it. The comic is set more-or-less in the modern day, but in a completely different world, using a calendar that puts the events of the comic somewhere around the year 3000 (by which I mean, they're not using the Gregorian calendar). As of this writing, it's the beginning of summer, but the current story arc is taking place sometime in autumn (except for the bit at the very beginning, which is a flashback to the beginning of summer about twenty years ago).
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* The climax of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] manga, covering almost two years worth of chapters, takes place over a single day.
* Similarly, in [[Hellsing]], the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Millennium]] invasion of London and the following [[Melee a Trois|battle]] between Hellsing, Iscariot, and Millennium lasts from chapter 35 until the deaths of the Major and the Doktor in chapter 94 -and it all takes place during ''a single night''.
* Not long before the [[Time Skip]], ''[[One Piece]]'' spent over a year of real world time depicting a period of approximately 33 hours. {{spoiler|Approximately 20 hours of which were mostly skipped while Luffy recovered from Magellan's poison effectively making it a 13 hour period that was actually covered.}}
* The first 76 comics of ''[[The Word Weary]]'' take place over the course of one day even though they took six months to update.
* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' took six months of chapters to cover three days.
* ''[[Wandering Son]]'''s been going on for nine years at the time of this writing, but has only taken place over the span of about six years. The series tries to stay contemporary for the best of its abilities though. A calender in volume 11 clearly states "2010", though earlier chapters seem very early 2000s. We've seen the [[PlayStation 2]] several times within the manga but it's been a popular console throughout the new-millennium so it doesn't date the series to any year.
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