#OctosDayOut at Dublin Comic Con 2025, Summer Edition

Left to right: James Brophy, Kat Dodd, Karina Steffens, Colm Dodd, Fi Conlon

On a hot weekend in August, the Octocon Team arrived at Dublin Comic Con. We brought Octos, flyers, bookmarks, Octo-stickers and chocolates to tempt unwary travellers. By Sunday evening, most of our chocolates, stickers, bookmarks, flyers, and travellers softly and silently vanished away. Happily, our Octos got to come home with us. On Sunday afternoon,…

Octocon Presents at Dublin Comic Con: Andor and the Parallels to the History of Irish Rebellion

Octocon is delighted to announce that we’ll be back at Dublin Comic Con on 10-11 of August, with a fantable and a panel! Panel Time: Sunday 11 August @15:00 Panel Description: It’s easy to romanticise violence, especially if we deem the cause worthy, but in Star Wars Andor, we see the toll that rebellion takes…

Octocon Presents at Reconnect: Unreliable Narrators and Other Tricks (and Our Fan Table)

Are you going to be at this year’s Eastercon, Reconnect, in Belfast? If so, check out our Octocon Presents panel, featuring a stellar cast of former Octocon guests and guests of honour, and moderated by this years’ co-chair. The panel was first run at Octocon 2022. Octocon Presents: Unreliable Narrators and Other Tricks Saturday 19…