Eddsworld

Eddsworld
Official title design
Also known as
  • Eddsworld: Legacy (2012–2016)
  • Eddsworld Beyond (2020–present)
Genre
Created byEdd Gould
ShowrunnersThomas Ridgewell (2012–2016)
Matt Hargreaves (2020–present)
Written by
  • Eddie Bowley
  • Tom Bown
  • Andy Clift
  • Edd Gould
  • Matt Hargreaves
  • Thomas Ridgewell
  • Jamie Spicer-Lewis
Directed by
  • Christopher Bingham
  • Eddie Bowley
  • Andy Clift
  • Matt Hargreaves
  • Thomas Ridgewell
Voices of
  • Edd Gould
  • Tim Hautekiet
  • George Gould
  • Thomas Ridgewell
  • Ed Templer
  • Matt Hargreaves
  • Tord "Larsson" Welhaven
  • Jamie Spicer-Lewis
Composers
  • Yoav Landau
  • Todd Bryanton
  • Olivia Clarke
  • Abbie Howard
  • Christopher Bingham
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes82
Production
Executive producers
  • Chris Boldt
  • Rob DenBleyker
  • Chris Fitzgerald
  • Sue Gould
  • Matt Hargreaves
  • Desiree Karlsson
  • James Edward Marks
  • Andrew Stock
  • Darcy Wilde
Producers
  • Christopher Bingham
  • Eddie Bowley
  • Andy Clift
  • Matt Hargreaves
  • Thomas Ridgewell
Editors
  • Christopher Bingham
  • Andy Clift
  • Elliot Gough
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release21 December 2004 (2004-12-21) 
present

Eddsworld is a British Flash-animated web series created by Edd Gould. Since its premiere on 21 December 2004, the series has been published through Newgrounds, DeviantArt, YouTube, Albino Blacksheep, Tumblr, SheezyArt, and an official website.

Following Gould's death on 25 March 2012, Thomas Ridgewell (the former voice actor of Tom) became the series' new showrunner, launching a crowdfunding campaign to continue the show titled Eddsworld: Legacy. Preceding the release of Eddsworld: Legacy's final episode, Ridgewell announced he was leaving the show and handing control of the series to Matthew Hargreaves (voice actor of Matt) and Gould's family. To this day, Hargreaves remains as the last original member of the foursome working on the series.

On 1 January 2017, the show's website went back online with new Eddsworld comics written and illustrated by Matt Hargreaves. On 1 August 2020, a new short titled "Fan Service 2" was released to kick off a new era of the show called Eddsworld Beyond, with Hargreaves as showrunner. Previously drawn and animated entirely by Gould, the Legacy and Beyond eras of the series employ a team of artists from around the world. As of February 2023, the Eddsworld YouTube channel has more than 4 million subscribers.

At the time of Gould's death, his YouTube channel had the most subscribers in the comedian category for the United Kingdom and was the 4th most viewed comedian in the United Kingdom. Eddsworld was noticed by the organizers of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference who commissioned an episode about climate change, used in the opening ceremony of the conference.