Friday, 8 August 2025
Future Fantasteek! No.23 is now on show in Tutt Library at Colorado College, USA
Future Fantasteek! No.23 is now on show in Tutt Library at Colorado College, USA
July > September 2025
Saturday, 24 May 2025
Future Fantasteek! #23: You Love Libraries // When All the Books Are Gone
Brighton, UK / Colorado Springs, USA (2025)
Edition of 100
297mm x 210mm, 32 x pages
Tête-bêche format: two zines with one rotated 180 degrees, meeting in the middle. Two front covers.
Digital colour printing on 150 gsm recycled silk paper,
Includes a bookmark
When All The Books Are Gone
Selected spreadsYou Love Libraries
Selected spreadsThe authors thank the University of Portsmouth, UK, Research & Innovation Fund, for supporting the printing and distribution of this publication. We love libraries – for real, not just if someone asks.
Sincerely yours, Jac Batey (University of Portsmouth, UK) / Jessy Randall (Colorado College, USA)
Jessy Randall is a librarian at Colorado College in the United States.
Her latest book is ‘The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science’ (Gold SF, 2025).
Personal Website: www.bit.ly/JessyRandall
Monday, 19 June 2023
Future Fantasteek! No.22 'Paper Cuts'
12 pages colour printed on newsprint
500mm x 350mm (broadsheet format)
Edition of 100, numbered, signed and embossed
July 2023, Brighton, UK
The 'Paper Cuts' artwork explores the impact of language on mental health. Created through a combination of collage and drawing techniques, they bring attention to the passive/aggressive phrases and words that are often used to bully and blame individuals. The works feature a clash of cartoon-like imagery and hand-drawn text, highlighting phrases such as “being resilient” and “gentle reminder” that can be used in a harmful manner. Similarly, as technology rapidly evolves, so too does the absurdity of the language we use to describe it. This language is parodied to highlight how it can make us as humans feel anxious, out-of-date, or redundant. The series encourages open conversations about mental health and challenges the notion that individuals can be ‘fixed’, which distracts us from attempting to create a more equal and supportive society. It’s a call to action to rethink the way we communicate and to understand the power of words.
London, UK 2023-2025. Supported by Creative People & Places, Arts Council England and the University of Portsmouth.
Sunday, 1 January 2023
Broken Pencil nomination - Best Art Zine category
Thursday, 23 June 2022
For more about the Tate's collection of Artist Books and Zines
https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/library-archive-reading-rooms/library
Monday, 4 April 2022
on a separate blog called > PLATFORM 2 > https://bateyjackie.wixsite.com/platform2
Friday, 11 March 2022
Future Fantasteek! No.21 - 'Future Fantasteek! in Motion' at Arts Council England
This was part of an Arts Council England Funded project called Future Fantasteek! in Motion.
Through this project, I was able to spend dedicated time to develop new skills in animation/moving illustration. The new zine includes AR elements that can be seen via a smartphone and the project website.
Friday, 11 February 2022
Future Fantasteek! in Motion
Future Fantasteek! in Motion funded by Arts Council England is progressing rapidly.
You can preview elements here:
Future Fantasteek! in Motion Website
Future Fanasteek! No.22 'Doom Scroll' is nearly completed. It'll be ready to send out in March 2022 NOW with added AR. This has been the most amazing project that's given me time to learn so many new skills, I can't wait to share it with everyone.
Friday, 17 September 2021
Arts Council England award
This is for a project called Future Fanasteek! in Motion running between Aug 2021 and Feb 2022 and it will have its own website to share the work in progress and final outcomes.
For more click on the menu above or follow this link:
https://bateyjackie.wixsite.com/ffinmotion
I want to explore the space between animation and the still-image on the printed zine, to develop aspects of motion, digitally and through AR. I propose digital interventions in sound, animation & sequence to make the unfolding of pages (real & virtual) a multi-layered experience. This grant provides dedicated time to learn to record, edit and place sound/image in harmony so that I can enhance the experience when viewing zines online and in-print using AR. I see this as mixing elements in unexpected ways that will be an exciting step-change in my practice.Saturday, 3 April 2021
'Decay' exhibition for The Rise Collective in Hanoi, Vietnam - April 2021
The show will be on 3rd-12th April 2021 at @archhanoi, in aid of @bluedragonchildren.
"The exhibition has the aim to raise money for @bluedragonchildren. ✨🐉✨ Blue Dragon offers children and families in crisis throughout Vietnam the chance to change their situations. Their services include rescue and crisis care for young people in immediate danger. They provide shelter, legal advocacy as well as long term support in returning to school and/or training. BD have rescued 1000 victims of human trafficking and continue to do amazing work." From the organiser's Instagram Page
(Photos by Livy Nelson)
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Interview about Zineopois and Future Fantasteek! For Hotondo Zero Yen Daigaku, Japan.
We spoke about Zineopolis the art zine collection I curate at the University of Portsmouth as well as Future Fantasteek and drawing on the train.

There's a roughly translated (via Google) version attached below here or you can visit the site to see the original content.
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Future Fantasteek! No.20
Softback zine laser printed in colour on white paper.
A5 size with 16 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Yellow cover, laser-printed in colour with mulit-lens transparent cover.
Brighton, October 2019, edition size of 30.
All numbered, signed and embossed with maker's mark.
ISSN 2399-3022 (Online)
The International Books, Publishing and Libraries Conference, Spain 2019
Are You Okay? Mental Health Narratives in Art Zines from the Zineopolis Collection
Dr. Jackie Batey
Abstract:
This paper explores examples of art zines that contain visual narratives about mental health. The author is the curator of “Zineopolis” (University of Portsmouth, UK) and specific examples will be drawn from this special collection of art zines. This paper questions how visual narratives about issues such as GAD (General Anxiety Disorder), Burnout and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) can communicate to a reader through art zines. It will consider authorial illustration within the self-publishing sector and how personal, private stories can been shared in an ultimately positive context. ‘Well-being’ has become a particular focus for higher education in the UK with many students struggling with issues such as anxiety and depression. Art zines have an immediacy and democracy of production that means many more voices can be heard and stories shared beyond what is available in the mainstream. Ethical issues of circulating these art zines within a special collection is also commented upon with reference to The Zine Librarians Code of Ethics (2015). Mental health issues have often been portrayed though the popular media unsympathetically creating stigma, whereas these selected art zines show care and understanding offering an alternative narrative.
Keywords: zines, mental health, self-publishing
This paper was presented at the The International Books, Publishing and Libraries Conference (Granada, Spain 2018). It's now been accepted for publication with some revisions in the International Journal of the Book publication estimate. 2020. To read the draft version scroll below here...
Thursday, 8 August 2019
Out of Order No.1


Softback zine laser printed in colour on white and ivory paper.
A5 size with 16 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Yellow cover, laser-printed in colour.
Brighton, August 2019, edition size of 30.
All numbered, signed and embossed with maker's mark.
Spin-off special edition from Future Fantasteek!
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Drawings from Marshland - FFNo.20 exhibited in Bournemouth.

Click on this link for more details....https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/events/vasto-exhibition
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
FF no.19 off to two zine festivals!
ZineFestPt taking place in Porto in Portugal 15th October 2018