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'''Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell''' (born 27 June 1990)<ref name=guardian>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/07/youtube-uk-20-online-video-bloggers "YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers"] ''The Guardian''</ref> is a British [[comedian]] and [[YouTube]]r, best known for Internet video series ''asdfmovie'' and ''Eddsworld''.<ref>[http://www.thevideoink.com/features/comedies-tomska-wants-better-youtube-fans/#.VD8ykBYQZco "Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans"]. Jessica Klein / Aug 17, 2014. ''VideoInk''.</ref> As of February 2016, his YouTube channel has over 3.9 million subscribers and his videos have garnered over 773 million views.
'''Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell''' (born 27 June 1990)<ref name=guardian>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/07/youtube-uk-20-online-video-bloggers "YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers"] ''The Guardian''</ref> is a British [[comedian]] and [[YouTube]]r, best known for Internet video series ''asdfmovie'' and ''Eddsworld''.<ref>[http://www.thevideoink.com/features/comedies-tomska-wants-better-youtube-fans/#.VD8ykBYQZco "Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans"]. Jessica Klein / Aug 17, 2014. ''VideoInk''.</ref> As of March 2016, his YouTube channel has over 3.9 million subscribers and his videos have garnered over 783 million views.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==

Revision as of 17:08, 14 March 2016

TomSka
Personal information
Born
Thomas James Ridgewell

(1990-06-27) June 27, 1990 (age 34)
Essex, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, video blogger, actor
Websitewww.thetomska.com
YouTube information
Also known asTomSka
Channel
Years active2006–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers3.96 million[1]
(14 March 2016)
Total views783.5 million[1]
(14 March 2016)
1,000,000 subscribers2012[2]
Last updated: 13 February 2016

Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell (born 27 June 1990)[3] is a British comedian and YouTuber, best known for Internet video series asdfmovie and Eddsworld.[4] As of March 2016, his YouTube channel has over 3.9 million subscribers and his videos have garnered over 783 million views.

Early life and education

As a child, Ridgewell began making short films using his parents' video camera. Not long after YouTube was established, Ridgewell created CakeBomb, a website on which he posted his video creations. , including his friend's Eddsworld, and his first asdfmovie. Ridgewell graduated from the University of Lincoln,[5] and while there created a series of unofficial "advertisements" for the university which received millions of views.[6]

He was raised a Jehovah's Witness, but no longer practices this faith.[7] Despite this, he has expressed hope for a higher power.[8]

YouTube career

A professional YouTuber, Ridgewell earns money frong revenue from his videos on the website.[9] He has been discussed and interviewed in relation to this, especially when the medium of online video was in its infancy.[3][10] He has also appeared as a guest on the BBC's The One Show, and has appeared as a radio and TV guest internationally.[11]

In 2008, Ridgewell released the first installment of asdfmovie, an animated sketch comedy series featuring very short clips of minimally-detailed characters in surreal and occasionally darkly humorous situations. There have been nine episodes, the last having been uploaded on the 7th of August, 2015.[12]

In 2012, he took charge of the production of Eddsworld after the show's original creator and his friend, Edd Gould, died of leukemia.

In 2013, Ridgewell was featured in YouTube's first "Comedy Week".[13]

He was featured on the cover of Wired UK in February 2013 as part of a feature titled "How YouTube Reinvented the Entertainment Business"[14] and was selected by YouTube as a guest host for its Geek Week series in August.

The BBC announced that Ridgewell will be appearing as a guest presenter on the Dan and Phil show from September 2014 on BBC Radio 1.[15][16][17]

Ridgewell spoke at the VidFest UK London Comic Con in 2014.[18]

In January 2015, Ridgewell launched a new webtoon, Crash Zoom, on his TomSka channel. It is animated by Ben "Wonchop" Smallman, who also animated some of the asdfmovie episodes.[19] It features three young characters, Lucy, Ben and Kate, and their various surreal exploits.[20]

Other projects

In 2014, Ridgewell, in collaboration with Pixel Spill, created the game KatataK, a side-scrolling shoot 'em up for iOS and Android devices.[21]

In 2015, Ridgewell worked with animator Matt Ley to create Art Is Dead, a comic book based on, and featuring adapted sketches from, his asdfmovie series.[22][23]

Books

  • Art is Dead: The ASDF Book (2015, Little Brown Book Group, ISBN 9780751563047)[24]

References

  1. ^ a b "About TomSka". YouTube.
  2. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL6985xJnfU
  3. ^ a b "YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers" The Guardian
  4. ^ "Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans". Jessica Klein / Aug 17, 2014. VideoInk.
  5. ^ "Former University of Lincoln students to guest present on Radio 1" By RCousins_LE August 27, 2014 Lincolnshire Echo.
  6. ^ "Appointment to view: The University of Lincoln goes viral". Brand Republic.
  7. ^ "The Day My Faith Died" YouTube
  8. ^ "7 Facts About TomSka YouTube
  9. ^ "The Tom Ridgewell show: the 22-year-old making £10,000 a month from his bedroom on YouTube ". London Evening Standard
  10. ^ "YouTube star TomSka 'makes thousands' every month". By Dan Whitworth. BBC Newsbeat
  11. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hLCjzjOvs, retrieved 2015-09-06 {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ TomSka (2015-08-07), asdfmovie9, retrieved 2016-02-27
  13. ^ "YouTube's Comedy Week shows how much comedy has changed". The Telegraph.
  14. ^ "Talent Tube: how Britain's new YouTube superstars built a global fanbase" WIRED
  15. ^ "New youth presenters for Radio 1". BBC
  16. ^ Lewis, Tim. "YouTube superstars: the generation taking on TV – and winning". The Guardian.
  17. ^ "Radio 1 to hire 'YouTube-famous' vloggers to broadcast online ". The Independent.
  18. ^ "TenEighty at Vidfest UK MCM ComiCon". TenEighty Magazine.
  19. ^ DarkSquidge (2015-06-26), I'M NOT AN ANIMATOR, retrieved 2016-02-27
  20. ^ TomSka (2015-01-09), CRASH ZOOM - Movie Massacre, retrieved 2016-02-27
  21. ^ "KatataK". www.katatakgame.com. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  22. ^ DarkSquidge (2015-09-11), WE MADE A BOOK (Art is Dead reveal), retrieved 2016-02-27
  23. ^ DarkSquidge (2015-10-29), ART IS DEAD IS OUT!!!, retrieved 2016-02-27
  24. ^ "Art is Dead : The asdf Book". Book Depository.com. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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