OH!CON 2026

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

Adam Murphy website

Andy Eadie has been a professional stunt performer for over a decade. He has performed high falls, stair falls, fight scenes, character parts and vehicle work on productions such as Game of Thrones, Dungeons & Dragons, A Thousand Blows, House of the Dragon, Star Wars, Aquaman, Batman, Lucky Man, Killing Eve, Avengers and many more. 

Caitriana NicNeacail is a speculative fiction writer from the Isle of Lewis. She writes in Gaelic as well as in English, and her fiction has appeared in Shoreline of Infinity,  Best of British Science Fiction 2025, and Future Britains. You can find more of her original English-language sci-fi, fantasy and other speculative fiction stories at Coracle Voyager. 

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.

Siar Interactive website

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 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 is an actor, comedian and full-time nerd. His one-man shows “Still Ready To Believe you: Celebrating 30+ years of Ghostbusters” and “The Nerd, The Whole Nerd and Nothing but the Nerd”, have been performed at many conventions and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Des O'Gorman website

Eira Richards is a comics and manga artist, illustrator, and artist educator.
Her work draws inspiration from Celtic folklore and mythology, as well as history and poetry. Her published titles include The Witch-Hare (2022), Creating Manga Characters (2012), and Between Storms, a speculative history/ historical fantasy with a Hebridean setting. The Gaelic version of the book, titled Eadar Dhà Shian, was published in May 2026.

Eira Richards website 
Instagram @eirarichardsart

Dr. Emily McEwan is a publisher, author, blogger, former academic, and the founder and owner of Bradan Press in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's only Gaelic publishing company. She has also been a Whovian for 45 years! Her first experience with publishing was editing and producing Blake's 7 zines in the late 1980s.

GR Jordan has written over fifty books to his name and his crime fiction has topped the Amazon eBook store. His writing time is divided between thrillers and crime fiction, with his passion for gamebooks providing his “fun” writing. 

GR Jordan website

Graeme 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.

A veteran of OH!CON and a passionate advocate for social play, Hereward is currently completing a PhD exploring the development of relationships within tabletop roleplaying game groups.

Katie Cunningham is a Scottish writer of horror comics and prose. Her graphic novels Rotten Under the Snow and Space Banshee Exorcist are published by 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. 

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 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 is originally from Seattle, but he has been living in Skye for more than two decades.  He is 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.