Future Fantasteek! No.17 is coming together, not sure about the cover yet.
I have also been experimenting with drawing on a tablet using the Brushes App and a Jot pen.
So we shall see how that goes...not a replacement for paper, just another 'thing' in the art drawer.
Here's how it's coming along so far, should be ready end of Jan 2016
Monday, 23 November 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015
The Comics Alternative weekly podcast has a review of Future Fantasteek! No.16
Future Fantasteek! No.16 has just been reviewed by:
The 'Two Guys' are Andy Kunka, a Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter, where he teaches courses in literature, film, and comics. And Derek Royal a comics scholar and a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas in their School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication.
Their website has some fab links to further comics research and lots of reviews. Great site for anyone interested in comics and zines and sequential art/narrative.
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Screenshot from the Alternative Comics Homepage |
"The Comics Alternative is a weekly podcast and blog focused on the world of alternative, independent, and primarily non-superhero comics. (There’s nothing wrong with the superhero genre…we just want to do something different.)" Quote from http://comicsalternative.com/
PODCAST REVIEW (for Future Fantasteek! scroll to 01.24.20)
http://comicsalternative.com/episode-153-reviews-of-the-dharma-punks-my-hot-date-tokyo-ghost-and-futurefantasteek/PODCAST REVIEW (for Future Fantasteek! scroll to 01.24.20)
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Screenshot of the Alternative Comics Podcast page |
The 'Two Guys' are Andy Kunka, a Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter, where he teaches courses in literature, film, and comics. And Derek Royal a comics scholar and a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas in their School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication.
Their website has some fab links to further comics research and lots of reviews. Great site for anyone interested in comics and zines and sequential art/narrative.
Monday, 24 August 2015
#OpenComics: untold stories - The Guardian
#OpenComics: untold stories – share your comics and graphic art
Call from the Guardian, so I thought I'd share Future Fantasteek!
You can see the submissions here:
https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5554b63ce4b0e7790b8375bf
Call from the Guardian, so I thought I'd share Future Fantasteek!
You can see the submissions here:
https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5554b63ce4b0e7790b8375bf
"We’re looking for interesting untold stories from around the world. The subject you choose is up to you – we simply want to see stories that you think are important and that are best told through graphic storytelling. It could be a weighty international issue such as freedom of speech and human rights, or it could be a more personal story about your community or something that affects you as an individual." Witness - Guardian website
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Future Fantasteek! No.16
Future Fantasteek! No.16 to read the whole thing, scroll below here:
Softback zine laser printed in colour on cream and white paper.
A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Yellow card cover in laserprint black with hand-stamped red logo.
Includes free 1000 Dollars (for Heaven).
Brighton, Feb 2015, edition size of 30.
Friday, 20 February 2015
Future Fantasteek! No.7
Softback Zine printed in colour on cream and peach tinted papers, saddle-stitched.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bright yellow card cover with 2 rhinestones.
Issue Seven: Brighton 2009, edition size of fifty.
The 'Damp Research Facilities' have been terribly busy shredding their expenses claims for the last ten years. I mean who’d have thought the public would have gotten knocky about perfectly okay claims for moat-cleaning and second homes, when they’ve all busy thieving handfuls of biros from work. So what if a few deserving Damp Staff want a new telly? Who wouldn’t begrudge them some small comforts? What else? Well Damp Research has proved conclusively that money is vital for happiness and in the spirit of you can never be too happy...keep fiddling the claim forms.
To read the whole thing scroll below here:
Future Fantasteek! No.8
Softback Zine printed in colour on cream, white and lime tinted papers, saddle-stitched.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Red and white pearl card cover with small holographic sticker.
Issue Eight: Brighton 2010, edition size of fifty.
In spite of being out-of-ideas the 'Damp Research Facilities' have filled sketchbooks with pointless drawings for your delectation. As usual the Damp Staff have been out and about eavesdropping on tedious mobile phone conversations, designing products for a better future and trying to get away with passing this off as Art - I mean...honestly! TIME FOR ACTION: What we REALLY need now are some more middle-managers to form a committee, to draw up an agenda, to propose a strategic plan that addresses concerns both real and implied of whoever it was who started this whole thing in the first place.
Pass the biscuits please...
To read the whole thing scroll below here:
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Red and white pearl card cover with small holographic sticker.
Issue Eight: Brighton 2010, edition size of fifty.
In spite of being out-of-ideas the 'Damp Research Facilities' have filled sketchbooks with pointless drawings for your delectation. As usual the Damp Staff have been out and about eavesdropping on tedious mobile phone conversations, designing products for a better future and trying to get away with passing this off as Art - I mean...honestly! TIME FOR ACTION: What we REALLY need now are some more middle-managers to form a committee, to draw up an agenda, to propose a strategic plan that addresses concerns both real and implied of whoever it was who started this whole thing in the first place.
Pass the biscuits please...
To read the whole thing scroll below here:
Future Fantasteek! No.1
Softback Zine printed in greyscale on flourescent lime paper, saddle-stitched.
A5 size with 16 printed pages, with a flexible clear-multilens pvc cover.
Issue one: Brighton 2006, edition size of fifty.
This Zine is full of eveything that’s wrong with modern living, modern people and going to work. It’s a mixture of hand-drawn typographic slogans and advice with curious advertisements thrown in for good measure. Buy an Evil-Pet or a machine for generating Stupid Ideas. The Damp Flat Research Facilities have wasted no time in bringing you the most up to date advice along with plausible excuses that can be profered for any event. Things you need and things you don’t - if you can’t tell ‘em apart... YOU NEED THIS ZINE
To read the whole-darn-thing scroll here:
Future Fantasteek! No.2
Softback Zine printed in greyscale on fluorescent pink paper, saddle-stitched.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Pearl grey/pink cover with 2 glitter shapes.
Issue two: Brighton 2007, edition size of fifty.
Marvel at the Negativity Negator; find out why "NO" is better than "yes".
Ever wondered why everything is always out of order? Let the Entropy-Go-Round inform you.
How useful is Vitamin O? And another 'bang-on' Masked-Cat truism for your delectation..
Thursday, 19 February 2015
FF no.16 will be appearing at the first Beirut Zine Festival in June
Future Fantasteek! will be making an appearance at the first Beirut Zine Festival, which will be on the 18th June at 18:00 in UTC+03. Artscape Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon.
After the festival Future Fantasteek! will join the Artscape zine collection - super.
For more details, see the Artscape Poster and link below:
https://www.facebook.com/BeirutZines
You can now read Future Fantasteek! at Franklin & Marshall College, USA
Copies of Future Fantasteek! Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, and 16 have just joined the zine collection in
the Shadek-Fackenthal Library at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Sunday, 8 February 2015
FF16 - nearly in the envelopes!
Issue No.16
"Whatever You Want Cannot Be Found"
Is finished, printed and being stuffed into envelopes as we speak...
The whole zine will be uploaded soon for online readers, in the meantime, if you're a library or zine collection and you'd like a copy email me and I'll see what I can do.
bateyjackie@gmail.com
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The British Library are going to archive Future Fantasteek!
...how fantasteek.
The British Library would like to archive the following website:
The British Library would like to archive your website in the UK Web Archive. The UK Web Archive was established in 2004 to capture and archive websites from the UK domain, responding to the challenge of a ‘digital black hole’ in the nation’s memory. It contains specially selected websites that represent different aspects of online life in the UK. We work closely with leading UK institutions to collect and permanently preserve the UK web, and our archive can be seen at http://www.webarchive.org.uk/
Sunday, 6 July 2014
Future Fantasteek! on show in Russia 1st August - 30th September 2014
The RUKSSIAN Artists’ Books exhibition is about to move to a new location.
The Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Saratov, Russia.
1st August - 30th September 2014
The Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Saratov, Russia.
1st August - 30th September 2014
I am showing Future Fantasteek! Nos. 12, 14 and 15
Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin. Artists’ books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. Artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities.
Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist’s book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.
The international project "RUKSSIAN Artists' Books' aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the artist's book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.
British artists: Alice Potter, Andy Parsons & Glenn Holman, Angie Butler, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Barrie Tullett, Caseroom Press/Scottish Poetry Library, Charlotte Hall, Christopher Robinson, Craig Atkinson, Duncan Bullen & Jamie Crofts, Elizabeth Willow & David Armes, Guy Begbie, Hazel Grainger, Helen Douglas & Thomas Evans, Iain Biggs & Josh Biggs, Jackie Batey, Jeremy Dixon, Joan Ainley, John Bently, John McDowall, J P Willis, Julie Johnstone, Les Bicknell, Liz Jackson, Nancy Campbell, Otto, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, Sarah Bodman, seekers of lice, Simon Goode, Simon Le Ruez, Sophie Loss, Stephen Fowler, Susan Johanknecht, Theresa Easton, Tom Sowden.
Russian artists: Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Vasily Vlasov, Sergei Vorobyov, Viktor Goppe, Emil Guzairov, Aleksander Dzhikiya, Mikhail Dronov, Igor Zadera, Mikhail Karasik, Valery Korchagin, Nikolai Krastchin, Viktor Lukin, Kira Matissen, Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentsev, Mikhail Pogarsky, Sergei Romashko, Aleksander Savelyev, Dmitry Saenko, Aleksander Svirsky, Vera Khlebnikova, Evelina Schatz, Sergei Shutov, Gunel Yuran, Sergei Yakunin.
Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Radischev str., 39, Saratov 410000, Russia
http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1381
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The information at the start of the Exhibition in 13th March 2014.
I am delighted to have been invited to exhibit three issues of Future Fantasteek! Nos. 12, 14 and 15 as part of the following international exhibition.
RUKSSIAN Artist’s Book
Artist’s Book in the UK and Russia
International
Project
Organisers:
State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve «Tsaritsyno», Moscow
International Association «Kniga Khudozhnika», Moscow
Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK.
Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin,
Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin,
Place: Tsaritsyno State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve, Moscow
Date: 13th March – 18th May 2014

Concept: Artists’ books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. All artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities. Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist's book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.
The international Project “RUKSSIAN Artists’ Books” aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the artist's book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.
British artists: Angie Butler, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Barrie Tullett, Charlotte Hall, Christopher Robinson, Craig Atkinson, Elizabeth Willow & David Armes, Guy Begbie, Hazel Grainger, Helen Douglas & Thomas Evans, Jackie Batey, Jeremy Dixon, John Bently, John McDowall, Julie Johnstone, Les Bicknell, Nancy Campbell, Otto, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, Sarah Bodman, seekers of lice, Simon Goode, Simon Le Ruez, Sophie Loss, Stephen Fowler, Susan Johanknecht, Theresa Easton, Tom Sowden.
Russian artists: Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Vasily Vlasov, Sergei Vorobyov, Viktor Goppe, Emil Guzairov, Aleksander Dzhikiya, Mikhail Dronov, Igor Zadera, Mikhail Karasik, Valery Korchagin, Nikolai Krastchin, Viktor Lukin, Kira Matissen, Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentsev, Mikhail Pogarsky, Sergei Romashko, Aleksander Savelyev, Dmitry Saenko, Aleksander Svirsky, Vera Khlebnikova, Evelina Schatz, Sergei Shutov, Gunel Yuran, Sergei Yakunin.
Download the Exhibition Catalogue here...
http://www.pogarsky.ru/cgi-bin/foremanel.pl?mod=books&a=books&id=291
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Future Fantasteek! Mini-Tour Catalogue now available free for ipad.
Future Fantasteek! Mini-Tour Catalogue now available free for ipad.
And to read on Issuu.
Monday, 2 December 2013
Future Fantasteek! free on ibooks
I've just made Future Fantasteek! Nos. 14 and 15 available to view on ibooks via an ipad.
You can download both issues for free from itunes.
On itunes (if you search 'Jackie Batey' ) you'll also find an interview I did with Grey Art Lab Gallery in Minneapolis earlier in the year for their 'Secrets' exhibition.


You can download both issues for free from itunes.
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The Mini-Tour Catalogue celebrating the first 10 issues of Future Fantasteek! is also available to download from itunes.
On itunes (if you search 'Jackie Batey' ) you'll also find an interview I did with Grey Art Lab Gallery in Minneapolis earlier in the year for their 'Secrets' exhibition.


Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Future Fantasteek! No.15
Softback zine laser printed in black & white on cream and blue (for a boy) paper.
A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Manilla cover in laserprint black with hand-pulled yellow sérigraphie screen print.
Brighton, July 2013, edition size of 40.
Issue No.15 Here Comes Another One
What's been happening in the BIG WIDE WORLD... Who cares!
Look at the BABY that'll take your mind off things, the Welfare State can cope with one more...
To read the whole thing scroll below here:
For a change I printed the cover using a 30yr old serigraphie (French children's mini screen print toy). It prints a bit erratically (or maybe that was me) using cut out paper stencils.
Here's how they came out, I printed yellow on brown wrapping paper, after laser printing the black first.
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