Raised in a working-class Italian American neighborhood of Chicago, Scott Burdick is the oldest of four children.
“I was born in 1967 with severe clubbed feet that would have left me crippled my entire life had I been born a decade earlier. One of my earliest memories at Children’s Memorial Hospital is of my mother showing me how to transform simple shapes into planes, helicopters, fish, and all sorts of magical creatures. With my father’s help, I would conjure stories based on my primitive illustrations and bind them into little books with string. Drawing, reading, and writing became my escape into an imaginary world without limitations.
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