Eddsworld

Eddsworld refers to the online username and series of animations, comics, and games created by the late Edd Gould and maintained by his friends and family. Edd and his friends, like Matt Hargreaves, Tord Larsson and Thomas Ridgewell, would have animated counterparts of themselves appear in the various media Edd posted online. Edd's earliest-surviving creation was a short titled Edd, and it was uploaded to Newgrounds on June 6, 2003, the same day he registered.

This page is the central hub of the "eras" of Eddsworld; the "classic" era is where everything Edd Gould created is, the "Legacy" era contains the stuff produced by Thomas Ridgewell following Edd's passing, and the "Beyond" era (the current era) contains content being made under the oversight of Matt Hargreaves.

Classic Eddsworld
The very first Eddsworld era, the "classic" era, began when Edd Gould started sharing content online. and lasted until he passed away on March 25, 2012.

During Edd's time in secondary school (high school), he would draw comics about his playground friends being killed and eaten. Edd's school friends would be "cast" in what he called 'Edd's World', which Edd claimed was likely inspired by Wayne's World. Edd later joined Neopets with Matt and some other friends, and he created a Guild accompanied with its own website titled 'Edd's Kill-a-thon'. After some angry threats, the admins removed Edd's guild for having a violent title. Because of this, Edd created a new guild titled 'Edd's World' with a Geocities webpage linking to various things.

Edd started using an animated gif maker to make gifs about various things like "stickmen dying and farts", but when he finally found a site to post them on (sfdt.com), he discovered they were only accepting flash entries. Edd decided to search for some flash entries and came across a flash titled Agent Smiley, and he started using flash as a result. Starting on November 7, 2002, he made primarily stick figure animations, like his Bendee flash animations.

Edd eventually put more of his efforts toward animations about the adventures of him, his friends' animated counterparts, and other characters. The animated counterparts for two of Edd's friends, Thomas Ridgewell and Tord Larsson (who Edd met in November 2004 and had draw comics until around mid-2005), were voiced by Edd himself and Alex L'Abbé during the times they didn't have working microphones. In November 2004. Content was also posted on Edd's website until it was shut down due to malware in January 2012.

This era ended on March 25, 2012, when Edd Gould passed away after a 6-year-long battle with cancer.

Eddsworld: Legacy
The second Eddsworld era, Eddsworld: Legacy, began after Thomas Ridgewell and Eddie Bowley took over Eddsworld duties from Edd Gould after Edd passed away; Edd did not want Eddsworld to end after his death. It ended after Tom handed control of Eddsworld to Edd's family following the release of The End (Part 2) and twenty additional comics.

Eddsworld Beyond
The third and current era, Eddsworld Beyond, began when Edd's family and Matt Hargreaves took over Eddsworld duties from Tom. The first animation to come from this era was Fan Service 2.