Oscar Hamilton

"If you plan for a future series, the best thing to do is to think of what comes in your mind and be creative with that thought."

- Oscar Hamilton

Oscar Xavior Hamilton (born on March 24th, 1959 in San Francisco, California) is an American animator, writer, producer, director, author and video game developer who was best known for creating the Collin the Speedy Boy series alongside Tadaki Fujiyama, Alexa the Vampire by himself and Game Over alongside his wife Madison McDougal-Hamilton.

Early life
Oscar Xavior Hamilton was born on March 24, 1959 at San Francisco, California in CPMC Birth Center, California Campus. (More coming soon...)

Collin the Speedy Boy
In 1991, as Warner Bros. is still brainstorming a video game. Hamilton, along with Fujiyama, was given the opportunity to give an idea, which involved a human with the power of superspeed. The team approved, and thus, the speedy kid was almost born, just needing the name. After the name was chosen to be Collin. Collin the Speedy Boy was born. The first game was released on April 16, 1993, becoming a critical and commercial success. Hamilton originally planned the game to be one-shot, but due to the game's monster success, the game became a franchise. The sequel, Collin the Speedy Boy 2 was released on June 13, 1995 with similar critical response, but was more successful than the previous installment.

The game spawned a long-running franchise, ranging from video games, TBD.

Inspiring quotes

 * "The project itself will be un-wonderful if rushed, but if done with time, it'll be wonderful."
 * (catchphrase like Stan Lee)
 * "If you plan for a future series, the best thing to do is to think of what comes in your mind and be creative with that thought."

Works

 * Collin the Speedy Boy series - creator, writer, designer and storyboard artist (1993-present)
 * Mark: Time Janitor series - writer (2006-present)

Personal life
He has a wife, being a writer, director and actress, Madison McDougal-Hamilton, being three years younger than him, and has raised three children named Alisha (born on April 8th, 2004), Michelle (born on February 9th, 2008) and Oscar Jr. (born on November 19th, 2010). He is married to her since September 6th, 1998.

He and his family currently live in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He is a Protestant and holds no political affiliation since he stated he votes for people and ideas and not for parties and colors.

Death rumors
On December 1st, 2018, rumors started spreading online that Oscar Hamilton has passed away, being victim of pancreatic cancer. Shortly after those rumors started, several people on social media started posting TBD dedicated to him, with some even wondering why his death wasn't reported on news outlets yet.

Eventually, two hours after those rumors started, Oscar published a photo of himself with a messy look on his Instagram account with "Hey, I just woke up and I read online that I died victim of cancer. Here's a photo of mine showing that I'm still alive and I'm cancer-free. So, be careful with fake news" as a caption.

Those rumors surfaced again on TBD 2020, this time that he died victim of COVID-19. Oscar tested positive for the virus ten days before those rumors and, even infected, he had always been in good health. As soon those arose, Oscar published an ironic post on his Twitter account saying "When you spread death rumors about me and I show up to be alive" with a picture saying "Directed by Robert B. Weide", a reference to the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Trivia

 * He was close friends with his partner, Stella McDonnell, Daniel Wright, Genndy Tartakovsky, Chris Reccardi, Lynne Naylor, Ryan Curcwald, María Alejandra Botín, Lawrence Christensen, and Joe Murray.