Seth Macfarlane

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Seth Macfarlane was born in 1973 in Connecticut. As a child Seth became interested in illustration and became drawing cartoon characters of the time. At the age of nine he wrote a comic strip for the local newspaper. He received his high school diploma in 1991 from the Kent School in Connecticut. His headmaster rebuked Seth's low humor and even asked FOX not to air family guy, Seth's parents who taught at the school ended up resigning in protest.

He went on to attend the Rhode Island School of Design with the initial goal of working for the Walt Disney Company but as he continued his studies his goals changed. One of his professors sent some of Seth's work to Hanna Barbara and he was eventually hired there.

At Hanna Barbara Seth worked as a writer and animator for Cartoon Network's Cartoons Cartoons series and even worked on favorite shows like Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and Dextor's Laboratory. It was during this time that Seth continued to work on an animation he created as part of his college thesis entitled The Life of Larry. He wrote a sequel entitled Larry and Steve which was broadcast on Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toons. Fox saw the shorts and asked Seth to create a series based on the characters in the two shorts and the series was to be called Family Guy.

He was 24 years old and was television's youngest executive producer. He spent six months putting together the Family Guy pilot but when he was done the effort paid off. Family Guy is now a billion dollar enterprise and Seth has been able to branch out and create a number of different shows including American Dad!, The Cleveland Show and Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.

In 2008, Seth and Fox reached an agreement in which Fox would keep both Family Guy and American Dad until 2012 for $100 million. The agreement makes him the world's highest paid television writer.

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