2025 SPECIAL GUESTS!
Tawny Plantis
Tawny Plantis has made quite the splash on TikTok telling us how our favorites speak about our personalities. She's also done a lot of voiceover work...but not in the anime sense. You've probably heard her in your favorite audiobooks or in your work training modules! We want to welcome Tawny Plantis to OMG!con, and to get a brand new side to the things we love!
Nichole Goodnight
Nichole Goodnight is a captivating horror voice actress and VTuber known for spine-chilling emotional performances and engaging storytelling. With a passion for the macabre, Nichole has made her mark in the horror community by lending her voice to numerous podcasts including The NoSleep Podcast, Creepy, SCP Archives, and more. In addition, she voices the captivating character of the Princess in the indie horror game Slay the Princess.
Drew Kenady
Drew Kenady is a retro game collector and enthusiast. His videos cover all kinds of strange corners within the history of video games as well as commentaries on modern releases and the occasional DIY tutorial. Most recently, he tried his hand at game development and released C.A.R.L., a quirky, charming platformer that also serves as a love letter to his childhood nostalgia. Check out his YouTube Channel now!
Epoch Sonder
Using the pen name Epoch Sonder, Las Cruces author Simone Jimerson wrote and illustrated her first graphic novel, Maven. Inspired by the television show “Heroes,” Jimerson came up with the concept for a graphic novel in 2018. Jimerson describes her book as “Alice in Wonderland meets Avatar, the Airbender, and Beauty and the Beast.” Her lead character, Eleanor, is a self-insert Jimerson created because of her experience growing up mixed-race in Temecula, California (between San Diego and Los Angeles). Jimerson moved to Las Cruces in 2021 from North Richland Hills, Texas (a suburb of Fort Worth), where she had been a firefighter and paramedic. She is now working full-time as an author and animator.
Yoshi Vu
OMG!con is proud to welcome back visual effects artist, producer, and generalist, Yoshi Vu! Yoshi's career in both 2D and 3D has included many titles, including concept artist, designer, senior generalist and more. His credits include TV and film projects including Invincible, Star Wars's The Mandalorian, Rise of Skywalker, and Obi-Wan, Marvel's Agents of Shield, Hawkeye, and Runaways, and Love+Death+Robots. His experience also reaches into the videogame world, including projects like League of Legends Odyssey, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Destiny 2. Outside his mainstream projects, Yoshi also works with and supports indie/YouTube creators like AVGN, Game Sack, Game Chasers, John Riggs, and the CU Podcast/Pat the NES Punk.
Beetle Moses
Beetle Moses is a self-taught comic artist, known for creating weird, funny, and occasionally existential webcomics that have built a cult following online. Over the past few years, he’s drawn a large catalog of absurd and colorful comics, often featuring animals, dinosaurs, and the natural world. In 2024, his work was nominated for a Ringo Award and earned the “One to Watch” award at WebComicon.
Kevin Miller
Kevin Miller is well known as the voice of Sly Cooper, and he’s also performed in iconic video game franchises like Jet Grind Radio, House of the Dead, Crazy Taxi, and Tales of Eternia. These days, he works with indie game developers as a writer, casting director and actor. Some recent projects include PaperKlay and Super Buff HD. Kevin streams regularly on Twitch and delights in the ongoing warmth and creativity from the Sly Cooper community. As an avid gamer (nerd), he’s absolutely thrilled to discuss gaming and game culture with anyone and everyone, and he hopes to do that very thing at OMG!con! For more about Kevin Miller, visit the website he built with his own two hands…as well as Wordpress:
THEKevinMiller.com.
Greg Ayres
Greg Ayres has been screaming into microphones for close to 25 years now! With over 376 credits to his name, he has managed to play a variety of characters that are almost as colorful as his hair. He was honored to recently return to his role of Son Goku in Saiyuki Reload Zeroin, having worked on the Saiyuki franchise for over 20 years. He can currently be heard as Po in Eminence and Shadow, As Kenta Kanzaki in The Dangers in My Heart, Yu Nishinoya in Haikyu, Chai in Shenmue The Animation on Adult swim, and a super bad demon known only as “God” in Dark Gathering. Of all of his many roles, his favorite will always be the real life role of "Little Brother" to voice actor Christopher Ayres. The little guy with a big Sippy Cup (and even bigger heart) who touched the world with his "Love and Laughter”.
Shen Comix
Shen Comix is the creator of several webcomic series, including the shortform humor series Shen Comix, the shortform humor series Bluechair, the tall eldritch-god-worshipping loser art student series Public U. Art Club, and the timeline-folding nonsense series Live With Yourself! His comics are generally lighthearted and relatable, but are known to dip into horror without warning. Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet Shen and talk about all of the shenanigans that go into his comic creation process!
Avi Roque
Avi Roque (they/them) is a Latine, Transmasculine, Non-binary actor and voice-over artist. They come from a theatre background and have performed in a number of regional stage productions. Avi is also an award winning audiobook narrator. However, they are most known as the voice behind Raine Whispers on Disney Channel's animated series The Owl House.
Seth Fulkerson | Seedy Eye Software
Seth Fulkerson is an independent game developer best known for developing Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, a spiritual successor to two infamous fantasy action-adventure titles. An enthusiast of lesser-loved and underappreciated titles, he has been making games for over 15 years in both hobbyist and professional capacity. He'll be showing off Arzette most of the weekend!
Jonathan Cochren (aka Beeg Jon)
Beeg Jon is an entertainer and producer on the web. (People still call it that, right?) Raised in Indiana, he began his journey on Twitch back in 2011 and shortly after started his YouTube career with his best buddy Jacob. (Indiejacob, formerly The Nintendo Project.) Graduating from USI, Jonathan was hired at 44News as creative producer where he spent a better part of two years producing commercials and graphics which are still on air today! All the while, maintaining his grind on YouTube with another dear friend, Nathaniel Bandy. As a member of Minus World, Beeg Jon has found group of fabulously talented gamers, including Nintendrew. (Jon's long lost brother.) Together they are here to share their stories in hopes of inspiring other local creators to follow their passions and to keep the dream alive for us all, playing games and doing goofs for a living with all your homies!
Caleb Hyles
Caleb Hyles first made waves when he released his cover of "Let It Go" on YouTube in 2014. Millions of homes around the world were enchanted by his riveting and theatrical covers of Disney, Broadway, anime, and pop-rock hits. ver the years of pouring himself into his work and creating exciting, diverse content for his fans, Caleb has amassed a close-knit fanbase consisting of 1.5 million YouTube subscribers and over 1 million monthly Spotify listeners. Fans eagerly seek out Caleb's larger-than-life voice taking on their favorite songs and breathing new life in themevision shows and video series like RWBY and Nintendo Minute have called on Caleb to sing for them.22 saw the release of his first original works with his album, "In One Breath". Don't miss your chance to embark on this new adventure with him.
Kris Izzi
Kris Izzi is a walking example of how with enough time, anything can be funny. Through his comedy he takes you on a journey about him marrying up, becoming a dad, and his unique troubles when helping others. He has performed at the Louisville Fringe Festival and the 2020 Clean Comedy Challenge. He has performed at comedy clubs across the Midwest including The Caravan, Third Coast Comedy Club, and Go Bananas Comedy Club. He has performed with comedians such as Erik Stolhanske from Super Troopers, Ryan Niemiller from America’s Got Talent, and Dustin Diamond (Screech) from Saved By The Bell. Audiences can’t help but fall in love with his ability to make any bad situation seem half-full.
Gavin Eddings
Gavin Eddings was born and raised in the city of Evansville, IN. Gavin was raised Mormon and was homeschooled during high school. These qualities, along with being a huge geek, Gavin quickly realized the odds of being normal were stacked against him. Instead of fighting for normality, he began doing stand-up. Gavin draws inspiration for his material through everyday experiences, although with a geek perspective. His material usually stays on the side of good taste but he also isn't afraid to push boundaries.
Dustin Matteson
Dustin Matteson has been performing stand-up comedy since the age of 14, taking the stage at comedy clubs long before he could legally drive. Born and raised in the small town of Petersburg, Indiana, Dustin’s act is a high-energy mix of observational humor and outrageous true stories drawn from his redneck family and his collection of eccentric friends. Nearly 6 feet tall and weighing in at over 400 pounds, he surprises audiences with a hilariously high-pitched voice that adds to the unexpected charm of his performance. Known for his quick wit, character voices, and spot-on impressions, Dustin delivers laughs with every line—backed by more than two decades of experience.
Andy Imlay
Andy Imlay was born several weeks early in Owensboro, Kentucky. He has Cerebral Palsy, a congenital disorder that often requires him to use a wheelchair to get around safely. Having a disability doesn’t get him down, however. Instead, it fires him up. It gives him a unique perspective in life, and that translates into comedy gold. He has performed with Dustin Diamond aka "Screech" from Saved by the Bell, Donnie Baker and Cledus T Judd.
Michael Probst | Dream Distillery Games
Michael Probst and Colin Harris are indie game developers primarily known for The Magic Bookstore, a cozy game about a witch running a bookstore in a magical fantasy town. The game is still in development, and they will be showcasing a demo of the game for most of the weekend.
