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"  Originally published in the July 2005 issue, we present here the autobiography of newly minted Oscar host Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy creator, in two parts. Part 1: The First 30 Years  October 1973 I am born in Kent, Connecticut. My original birth certificate is shortly thereafter used as rolling paper by my parents. 1976 As soon as I&amp;#039;m able to hold a crayon without feeling compelled to eat it, I begin drawing cartoon characters. My parents still have pictures of Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker that I make around this time. Fortunately, they haven&amp;#039;t smoked them... yet. 1995 I graduate from Rhode Island School of Design, where I make a student film called The Life of Larry. This is the first incarnation of what will eventually become Family Guy. I also get my first taste of Jack Daniel&amp;#039;s. This is the first incarnation of what will eventually become a crippling addiction, which, on the bright side, makes me a lot of fun at parties. 1995 Impressed with The Life of Larry, executives at Hanna-Barbera encourage me to move out to Los Angeles and hire me to work on several animated series, most notably Johnny Bravo. This is where I first meet Adam West, my personal hero and the strongest seventy-year-old man in the world. 1999 Fox gives Family Guy an amazing post \u2014 Super Bowl series launch and then airs us after The Simpsons, where we thrive. Later that year, though, we are moved opposite Frasier, where we struggle to break a six-share. To this day, I still can&amp;#039;t eat tossed salads and scrambled eggs. 2000 to 2001 We are briefly canceled, then brought back, only to be programmed opposite Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (at its height) and Friends. I work so hard during this time, I can barely remember it \u2014 although I&amp;#039;m told that I was a delight to be around and I bought a cat. 2003 After the show is canceled a second time, Fox releases Family Guy on DVD, and it sells millions of copies. Cartoon Network airs reruns on its Adult Swim block, and it sometimes beats Letterman and Leno in key demographics. I&amp;#039;m still told that there&amp;#039;s no hope for a resurrection \u2014 shows don&amp;#039;t come back from being canceled. It would be tantamount to the network saying, &amp;quot;Sorry, we were wrong.&amp;quot; And they don&amp;#039;t do that. 2004 I get the call that Family Guy is going back on the air. We&amp;#039;re producing thirty-five new episodes, which will air on Fox and Cartoon Network. Fox also orders nineteen episodes of my new show, American Dad, created with Family Guy writers Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman. We fully expect to be canceled again sometime in November and then picked up for another season in March.   Additional artwork by Greg Colton; color and ink work by Sandra Calleros and Aldin Barozza   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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