Future Fantasteek! No.8 Deepwater Horizon Issue

Future Fantasteek! No.9 Deepwater Horizon Issue is now available in an edition of 50.
To view the zine follow this link:
http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future9/index.htm

The first copies hot-off-the-press are on their way to various libraries and collections, but later issues are for sale from me, or in the Bookarts Bookshop, 17 Pitfield Street, London.
http://www.bookartbookshop.com/

What’s happened recently then?.... The Damp Research team have studiously tackled the issues that we all think about - such as do you waste more time on Facebook or Twitter, and what’s the point of it all when your closest friends are only ‘virtual’ and can’t even buy you a beer and crisps?

Zine World No.28

My Make a Zine illustration features in Zine World No.28

"Announcing the release of Zine World #28, This 50-page, full-size issue features: 

more than 340 reviews of zines, comics, chapbooks, books, DVDs, magazines, and other self-published materials. An article about the zine scene in Japan by Gianni Simone a column by Michelle Aiello (Indigo Zine) called “People Are Complete Fucking Assholes, Or How I Lost My PO Box”
an art piece by Jackie Batey called “Make a Zine” a comic strip from the zine Intellectual Property Is Theft: Copyright, Anti-Copyright, Public Domain, and Creative Commons an updated list of zine review zines & websites information sharing about distros & stores, zine libraries, zine resources, and upcoming zine events a report from the first New York City Zine Fest cover art by e. war and much more!

Get your hands on a copy by sending $4 to:
PO Box 330156
Murfreesboro TN 37133-0156, USA.

Future Fantasteek! No.8 Where you can see it...

Open publication - Free publishing - More comic

Copies of Future Fantasteek! Issue 8 are now available in the following collections: 

• Special Collections - University of Iowa, University Libraries, Iowa City, IA,  USA
• Special Collections - Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, USA
• Centre for Fine Print Research - UWE, Bristol, School of Creative Arts, Bristol UK
• Reed College Library, Portland, OR, USA
• Duke University, Durham NC, USA
• Zineopolis, University of Portsmouth UK
• Toronto Zine Library, ON, Canada
• Artists' Books - Tate Britain, Tate Library, London UK
• Modern British Collections/Social History - The British Library, London UK
• Library and Learning Resources - London College of Communication, London UK
• zinelibrary.info, Olympia, WA, USA
• {Disarmed}, Bedeteca de Lisboa, Olivais, Portugal
• Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection - Chicago, IL, USA
• The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection - Florida Atlantic University Libraries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
• LEGAL DEPOSIT OFFICE, The British Library, Boston Spa, UK
• The National Art Library - Word & Image Department, V and A Museum, London UK

Future Fantasteek! No.8 The Pholgiston Issue

Future Fantasteek! No.8 is finally finished. It will be ready to post around next week.
I make 50 copies and the first 30 are free to zine collections or libraries, if you want one for a collection, email me at: jackie@dampflat.com

Open publication - Free publishing - More comic

In spite of being out-of-ideas 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! What else? Well Damp Research has proved conclusively that, as suspected, the world is circling-the-drain...

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 zine visit:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future8/index.htm

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.2 Now on Issuu

I've just uploaded Future Fantasteek! No.2 to Issuu.com, so now you can flick through the whole of this zine online.

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.7

Issue No.7 July 2009
...Fiddling Your Expenses Issue

Softback Zine printed in colour on cream and peach tinted papers, staple bound. 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

Future Fantasteek! Issues: 1 and 7 have just been made available on Issuu.com these issues can be flicked through and bookmarked.
Future Fantasteek! No.1 - http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff1
Future Fantasteek! No.7 - http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff7


All issues of Future Fantasteek! can be viewed at: www.dampflat.com

More Future Fantasteek! available on Issuu.com

Future Fantasteek! Issues: 3: 4 and 6 are now available on Issuu.com these issues can be flicked through and bookmarked. The file sizes means that images can be enlarged easily. If you like this system of viewing my zines, please leave a comment in Issuu. 


To see my zines visit issuu.com and search for Future Fantasteek!, 
I will add more back issues later:

Future Fantasteek! No.3 - http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff3



Future Fantasteek! No.4 - http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff4



Future Fantasteek! No.6 - http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/fantasteek6

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.6

Future Fantasteek! ISSUE SIX : MARCH 2009
...Quantitative Easing Issue

Softback Zine printed in colour on white, green and yellow paper.
includes a free Million Squid Note that can obviously be photocopied as required - in line with good-'ol quantitative easing. Staple bound zine. A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Soft silver cover with sparkling green arrow. Issue Six: Brighton 2009, edition size of fifty.

The Damp Research Facilities haven't been inventing many new life-saving gadgets this season, since they've been flat-out printing money.
It's fantstic!

want a new BIG FLAT telly?
Just photocopy the million-sqid note included with this issue and buy what ever you'd like...
with enough change left for a packet of Spangles.

To view the whole zine visit: http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future6/index.htm

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.5

ISSUE FIVE : OCTOBER 2008
...Credit Crunch Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on yellow paper, with colour center pages, includes a tipped-in dubious banknote and rubber stampped flies. staple bound. A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bright pink card cover with yellow dots. 
Issue Five: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.

The credit crunch issue looks at liars, not using your brain and spotting fakes. There's free money from the bank of Future Fantasteek included as a worthless free gift. The Damp Research Facilities answer these questions: Why are people so nasty to each other ? Is greed really the future? How many of us have eaten from the Tree of Stupidity ? Can genetically enhanced monkeys with clipboards replace office staff? And could octopus DNA enable you to work longer hours? More pointless questions to ponder in a disappointing world...


To see the whole zine follow this link
http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future5/index.htm

Zineopolis Exhibition

Zineopolis Exhibition - 22nd February - 14th March 2008
The University Library, University of Portsmouth, UK

New zine collection a the University called Zineopolis will be showcasing its collection - Including all the Future Fantasteeks! 
www.zineopolis.co.uk

 

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.4

ISSUE FOUR : FEBRUARY 2008
...Sick-O Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on orange and yellow paper, staple bound.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Day-glo orange cover with yellow dots.
Issue Four: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.

The Damp Flat Research team are wondering why eveyone's so sick lately. They are also quickly investing, on-the-side, in the pharmaceutical industry. What with Norovirus and advice on how to take a 'sickie' there seems to be no healthy folk left. This issue also includes how to spot whether you have ended-up working for the Departement of Stupidity and the right way to wash your hands. I would write more, but I'm feeling off-colour and need to lay down... 


To view this zine in more detail go here...
http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future4/index.htm


Or to flick through this zine on Issuu go here:
http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff4

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.3

ISSUE THREE : JULY 2007
...Carbon Footprint Issue 

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on yellow paper, staple bound with central section in colour. 
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bronze cover with dye cut shape.
Issue three: Brighton 2007, edition size of fifty.

Once again, the Damp Flat Research team share their fantastic inventions, ideas and advice.
The evil central colour pull-out has a mirror where you can see your evil twin or simply worry more with the new Damp Worry Doll. 
There are inventions to help you spot a bad idea; pretend to talk like a grown-up or slow yourself down to avoid having to do anything.
That and so much more - are you really being watched? 

To view this zine in more detail visit:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future3/index.htm

Or to flick through online visit issuu at:

http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff3

Future Fantasteek! will soon available from:
PURE GROOVE Music Store, 679 Holloway Road, London N19 5SE, UK

Zineopolis Founded!

I've just set up a new Zine Collection at the University of Portsmouth, through the Illustration Course. The collection is called ZINEOPOLIS, and it links to student projects making zines and comics. Have a look at our new website, it will build-up over time, but this is the first peek...

www.zineopolis.co.uk

Zineopolis opened in June 2007 after a group zine project from first year Illustration Degree students at the University of Portsmouth. The zines and comics produced are archived in this site along with zines donated to us and ones specially purchased for the collection. Over the years we hope to build-up a representative collection of zines - we are focussing on zines heavy with visual content.

We wanted to reflect the diversity of thought and talent that exists outside traditional publishing. Zines are one of the few areas left where creative people can speak without censorship. This make the world of zines new and exciting as well as challenging. Commercial art is changing rapidly, with over reliance on clip-art images and images that exist to simply
dress-up yet another advert, for yet another 'must-have' product. So, what do visual people make and say when they are given a free-hand?
You'll find it here - amongst zines.
The nature of production, often cheap and quick, means these zines reflect the thoughts and hopes of the day (quite literally). We are focussing upon image-heavy zines, here in the School of Art and Design. The emergence of zines means that contrary to popular thought, young people (and older ones) have plenty to say about the world they find themselves in, and not as passively as one may expect. The culture of zines shows us that people do still have opinions, it also shows us that traditional conduits for sharing thoughts are probably not as accessible as we'd like within our celebrity obsessed media. It's great to witness the self-publishing boom!

Go on! Make a zine 
- draw what's on your mind, then send us a copy... 

Zineopolis

School of Art, Design & Media
Eldon Building (third floor) 

University of Portsmouth
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
Hampshire PO1 2DJ

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.2

ISSUE TWO : FEBRUARY 2007
...Comfort & Security Issue
Softback Zine printed in greyscale on fluorescent pink paper, staple bound.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Pearl grey/pink cover with 2 glitter shapes.
Issue two: Brighton 2007, edition size of fifty.

The second outing for the Damp Research Laboratory - once the staff were hastily re-hired.
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 incite Masked-Cat truism for your delectation..

To view this zine in more detail follow this link:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future2/index.htm

...Meanwhile, Future Fantasteek!, Issue One, has just joined 3 new collections, 

• The Mansfield Library - Zine Collection, at the University of Montana-Missoula, USA, 
• the Papercut Zine Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 
• The zine collection at the University of Austin, Texas, USA.
  
  

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.1

ISSUE ONE : JULY 2006

...Things You Need Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on flourescent lime paper, staple bound.

A5 size containing 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

Future Fantasteek Issue 1 can be viewed here:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future1/index.htm

Or you can flick through it on issuu.com

http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff1