Guests at Octocon
Bios and more guest announcements coming soon.
Guest of Honour - JG Jones
JG Jones is a comic book artist of the highest caliber, having worked on titles such as "Shi", "Black Widow", "Marvel Boy", " Wonder Woman: The Hikketeia", "Wanted" (with Mark Millar) and is currently the cover artists for the DC comics event "52". For examples of his work check out http://www.jgjones.com/
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll is thirty-ten years old and has not had a proper job since before the turn of the century.
Michael has written a large number of SF and fantasy novels for the Young Adult market, as well as one for the Old Adult market. Under the name Jaye Carroll he has written four not-entirely-rubbish romance novels.
His most recent work is the very successful and highly-praised YA novel The Quantum Prophecy, the first in the New Heroes series. The much-anticipated second volume, Sakkara, will be published on October 2nd (visit the New Heroes website at www.TheNewHeroes.co.uk or www.quantumprophecy.com for lots more information about the series!).
Like many writers of imaginative fiction, Michael suffers from single-personality disorder. Despite this, he has had some success with his novels, especially the ones that have been published.
Michael has contributed to a huge number of newspapers, websites, magazines, comics and small-press publications, many of which are actually quite respectable.
Michael lives in Dublin with his staggeringly beautiful wife Leonia.
Robert Curley
Robert Curley has been selling comics for over a decade. From humble beginnings in the Grafton Flea market in 1993, to opening up Sub - City in 1994 and then a second branch in Galway in 1997. Sub - City is the only comic store in Ireland with 2 branches.
I started working for Rob in 1997, Christmas in fact. But enough about me.
Rob set up Atomic Diner in 2003 and released In Dublin City and the fantastic Naked Lunch. In 2004, he launched his flagship title, Freak Show, which garnered international success and got him nominated for an Eagle award, the comic book Oscars. He is the first and so far only Irish writer to be nominated for one of these babies!!
So far, Freak Show has sold in excess of 18000 copies, the majority of sales in America.
Other projects he has planned for the future include Atomic Rocket Group 66, a 1950s superhero pastiche, and a new ongoing title set in Ireland in the 1860s called Hibernia which will weave together Ireland's political past, her rich history and numerous fables. Oh yeah!!
For more info on Rob, go see him at the Atomic Diner stand. You KNOW it makes sense.
Press Start to Play - Adam Law & Darryl Walker
Press Start to Play is a British webcomic, created by Adam Law and Darryl Walker. The comic follows the escapades of two gamers as they lampoon certain aspects of the video game culture while dealing with their own experiences in both life and love.
David Murphy
David Murphy is a Cork-born writer with two US-published novels to his name. The latest, "Longevity City", was published in hardback by Five Star in 2005. Its portrayal of a bleak future world ruled by pharmaceuticals has been well received and recent advances in cloning render the central premise of the novel less far-fetched than it might initially seem. Other books include "Arkon Chronicles" (Silver Lake Publishing 2003) and the story collection "Lost Notes" (Aeon Press 2004). He lives in north County Dublin and is a member of the cabal that brings out, between pints, Albedo One, Aeon Press and the Aeon Award.
Richmond Clements
Richmond Clements is involved heavily in the British Small Press comics scene. He's one of the team behind the comics FutureQuake and Something Wicked, and edits their manga comic, which is imaginatively called MangaQuake. He has written for numerous comics, including Action Stations! and Zarjaz and contributed strips to Future Publications Zap! comic and many reviews for The Fortean Times. Richmond has also contributed fiction, comic strips and articles to The End is Nigh magazine. Along with Dave Evans he has recently taken control of the long running 2000AD fanzine Dogbreath. And as if that wasn't enough, with artist Vicky Stonebridge, he also recounts the adventures of Wild West Wendy in comic form.