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Sci-fi, fantasy, comics, games and all that stuff

Guests

This year's guests include comic artists, comic writers, game designers, people from the film biz, and more!

Adam Murphy

Adam Murphy

Adam Murphy is the award-winning creator of the hit comics series CorpseTalk. 

Adam Murphy website

Andy Eadie

Andy Eadie

Andy Eadie has been training martial-arts since childhood and a professional stunt performer for over a decade. He first travelled to Thailand to take part in the Bangkok action cinema scene of the late 2000s which directly followed the success of Tony Jaa’s Tom-Yum-Goong. On return to the UK he began working towards the stringent entry requirements for the British Stunt Register. Since gaining admission to the BSR he has performed high falls, stair falls, fight scenes, character parts and vehicle work on productions such as Game of Thrones (world record fire burn), Dungeons & Dragons (doubling Hugh Grant), A Thousand Blows (1v1 with Stephen Graham) House of the Dragon, Starwars, Aquaman, Batman, Lucky Man, Killing Eve, Avengers and many more. 

Calum Macintosh

Calum Macintosh

Calum MacIntosh is a software developer and founder of Siar Interactive, an independent game studio based on the island of North Uist. Drawing on his background in computing and digital creativity, and his roots as a native islander, he creates immersive games steeped in Gaelic language, Hebridean atmosphere, and the folklore of the region. It's part of a wider mission to bring the myths, mysteries, and unique character of the Outer Hebrides into the world of digital interactive storytelling.

Siar Interactive website

Chris Baldie

Chris Baldie

Chris Baldie is a full-time writer, illustrator, and designer living in Perth, Scotland. His work ranges in style and subject matter from Parisian cat burglars to kids playing Dungeons and Dragons. “Space Captain: Captain of Space,” his long-form series, was recently translated and published in France under the title “Traque Dans L’espace!”.

Chris Baldie website

Dave Cook

Dave Cook

Dave Cook is a multi-award winning author of comic and video game history
books from Edinburgh. He’s best known for his ongoing cyberpunk series
Killtopia, which is currently published by Titan Comics. He’s also a repeat
contributor to the Boom! Studios horror anthology, Hello Darkness, and has
written two gaming history books for Bitmap Books.

Dave Cook Comics website

Des O'Gorman

Des O'Gorman

Des O'Gorman is an actor, comedian and full-time nerd. He trained at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and since then has appeared in "Too Long The Heart", "Globophobia" and various characters for the murder mystery "Can You Catch The Killer" (Dir. Kenny Boyle).

He has also written and performed one-man shows based on his two passions -  Ghostbusters and being a nerd. “Still Ready To Believe you: Celebrating 30+ years of Ghostbusters” and “The Nerd, The Whole Nerd and Nothing but the Nerd”, have both been performed at conventions and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Des O'Gorman website

Eira Richards

EiraRichards

Eira Richards is a comics and manga artist, illustrator, and artist educator.
Eira’s work draws inspiration from Celtic folklore and mythology, as well as
history and poetry. Since 2009, Eira has been a member of Sweatdrop Studios,
the UK’s first original manga publisher.

To date, Eira’s published titles include The Witch-Hare (2022) and Creating
Manga Characters (2012). Eira’s most recent manga-style graphic novel,
Between Storms, is a speculative history/ historical fantasy with a Hebridean
setting. The Gaelic version of the book, titled Eadar Dhà Shian, was published
in May 2026, thanks to grants from the Gaelic Books Council and Catherine
McCaig’s Trust, as well as support from An Taigh Cèilidh, Stornoway’s
community centre and “Gaelic cafe”.

Eira is also an experienced artist educator, and has taught at schools, libraries,
festivals and events. She enjoys introducing new audiences to manga drawing,
and encourages participants to weave their personal stories into the history
and heritage of their communities.

Eira Richards website 
Instagram @eirarichardsart

GR Jordan

G R Jordan

Based on the Isle of Lewis, GR Jordan is a prolific author of over 90 novels and several innovative gamebooks. Known for his cinematic style and immersive worlds, Gary writes across genres, from his successful Highlands and Islands Detective crime series to boundary-pushing interactive fiction. His gamebooks range from WWII espionage (Darkness on a Foreign Shore) and dynamic murder mysteries (Framed) to open-world pirate adventures and Scottish supernatural lore.

When he isn’t writing, Gary is a keen gamer with a love for Lovecraftian themes. He also enjoys archery, scenic walks, and relaxing with a latte at his local coffee house.

GR Jordan website

Graeme Macpherson

Graeme Macpherson

Graeme Macpherson has been interested in TRPGs since finding a pile of Fighting Fantasy books at a church fete in the late 80s. A nurse with a special interest in neurodivergence by day, but a nerd all the time, Graeme is a committee member for Game Therapy UK Scotland, has been playing D&D with the same group for the last 7 years, and is a co-host on OH!CAST.

Hereward Proops

Hereward Proops

Hereward Proops is a psychotherapist, writer, lecturer, forever-DM, and full-time nerd.

An advocate for social play, he's currently meant to be writing his PhD thesis on the development of relationships in TRPG groups. He's also the winner of the 2025 OH!con quiz and won't let anyone forget it.

Katie Cunningham

Katie Cunningham

Katie Cunningham is a Scottish writer of horror comics and prose. Her graphic novels Rotten Under the Snow and Space Banshee Exorcist are available now from Time Bomb Comics, her upcoming miniseries, Helen Deserves This is coming from Blue Fox in Autumn, and her debut prose novel, Something to Live For, will be published in December 2026. As well as this she has contributed to anthologies such as the Eisner-nominated Sensory, Beyond, Brawler, and Quantum. Katie lives in Glasgow, and spends her free time jumping in the coldest water she can find.

Marcus Hazel-McGowan

Marcus Hazel-McGowan

Marcus has been involved in TV and film extra work for the last 16 years. Working on films such as Mary Queen of Scots, The Outlaw King, Tornado and many YV series including Outlander and The Island.

Sue Harvey

Sue Harvey

Sue lives on Lewis and has has worked in everything from animal welfare to welding. In the late 90s, after completing a degree in film, she hoped to work on the new Star Trek movie but ended up working in the Creature Effects department for George Lucas's much anticipated Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace.

Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong

’S ann à Seattle a tha Tim Armstrong o thùs, ach tha e air a bhith a’ fuireach anns an Eilean Sgitheanach còrr is fichead bliadhna a-nis. Thòisich e ag ionnsachadh na Gàidhlig am measg nam puncairean ann an Dùn Èideann, agus bha e na bhall dhen chòmhlan punc, Mill a h-Uile Rud. Tha e a-nis na òraidiche agus rannsaiche aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, agus tha e air foillseachadh ann an Gàidhlig agus Beurla air cuspairean bho mhion-bhith-eòlas gu ceòl, teòiridh shòisealta agus ath-bheothachadh cànain. Ann an 2013, choisinn an nobhail fhicsean-saidheans aige, Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach, Ciad Leabhar Albannach na Bliadhna aig
Duaisean Chomann Crann na h-Alba, agus ann an 2025, choisinn an ath nobhail anns an t-sreath, An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire, Làmh-sgrìobhainn Neo-Fhoillsichte as Fheàrr do dh’Inbhich anns na Duaisean Litreachais Gàidhlig.

Tim Armstrong is originally from Seattle, but he has been living in Skye for more than two decades. He first started learning Scottish Gaelic in the punk scene in Edinburgh, and he was a founding member of the Scottish-Gaelic punk band, Mill a h-Uile Rud.  He is now a lecturer and researcher at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, and he has published work in both Scottish Gaelic and English on subjects ranging from microbiology, to music, social theory and language revival. In 2013, his science-fiction novel, Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach, was a winner of the Saltire Society's Scottish First Book of the Year prize, and in 2025, his sequel to that novel, An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire, won the Gaelic Literary Awards’ Best Unpublished Manuscript of the Year for Adults.

All OH!CON guest appearances are confirmed but can be subject to cancellation or alteration due to guests' sickness, professional obligations or other circumstances beyond our control.