| "Time" | |
|---|---|
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Xkcd_time_frame_0001.png) The first frame of the comic | |
| Publication date | March 25 – July 26, 2013 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Randall Munroe |
| Website | xkcd |
"Time" is the 1,190th strip of Randall Munroe's webcomic xkcd. Beginning with a single frame published at midnight on March 25, 2013, the image was updated every 30 minutes until March 30, 2013, and then every hour for 118 days (123 days in total), ending on July 26 with a total of 3,102 unique images.[1] Each image represented a single frame in a larger story.
The strip's story, set 11,000 years in the future in the basin of the Mediterranean Sea during a supposed recurrence of the Zanclean flood, features two characters journeying uphill to discover where the rising water is originating. By the end of the story, the characters return home to save their people. Described by Glen Tickle of Geekosystem as Munroe's "magnum opus", "Time" attracted significant attention and was well received online; several projects, wikis and web communities were built about it. In 2014, it won the Hugo Award in the Best Graphic Story category.