G. Scott Freeman was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina on December 12, 1968. Childhood for him was often spent indoors due to asthma, but television became his gateway to imagination. From the campy fun of the 1966 Batman series and Star Trek: The Original Series, to Space: 1999 and Scooby-Doo, and the antics of Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote (his self-declared spirit animal), stories on screen filled his world. By his teenage years, epic adventures like Flash Gordon, The Black Hole, Battlestar Galactica, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, and Saturday morning heroes like He-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Thundercats shaped the imagination he carried into the woods with friends or alone where he lived out the stories he invented. For Freeman, the 1980s were a golden age, capped by the arrival of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a peak of creative inspiration.
 

After high school, uncertain of his future and struggling with undiagnosed ADHD, he joined the U.S. Army. He served four years, including ten months on the DMZ in Korea and deployment to Desert Shield/Desert Storm with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment unit.

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His flagship work, Ferret Run: Secrets of Arcadia, explores the themes that drive his storytelling:
Becoming who you are when the world strips away the masks