I had been a huge Simpsons fan as a kid and when South Park first aired, it blew my mind. “I look up to Trey Parker and Matt Stone a lot. And as we all know, these are the best laughs! Kind of reminds you, South Park, a bit, doesn't it? “I was inspired South Park a ton,” Ryan said. I think it's fair to say that Channelate will appeal to the dark, cynical side of your soul, giving you those explosive kinds of snort-laughs that you just can't control, a kind of laughter against your will. While his drawing style is clean and straightforward, his sense of humor is anything but. When I first started to post dark humor comics, my webcomic inspirations were The Perry Bible Fellowship, Thingpart, and Cyanide and Happiness.”
“I knew from when I saw that, that I wanted to make web cartoons, but I literally had no idea how I would go about that.
But how did it all begin? “When my family first got the internet in like 1998 - 99 I found this flash cartoon site called ,” Ryan told Bored Panda. Ryan's comics, which began a decade ago as short 3 or 4-panel drawings filled with dark sense of humor, has lately expanded to include live-action cartoons on Youtube, as the cartoon artist to dedicate more and more time to his passion.