Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE
Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE

Anna Banana, Bill Gaglione, VILE no 7. 1980 Stampart magazine, RARE

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Banana, Anna, Bill Gaglione, Vile No. 7, San Francisco: Vile Magazine, 1980. Very Good - black card wraps with heavy creasing, affixed to back of text block. Stamped label “Stampart” white with red border affixed to front over rubber stamp of the fetish heel with the word “stamp!” affixed beneath. Half title has the stamp in blue ink. Butterfly metal brad binding, contains 147 leaves, most single-sided, all pages present, binding tight.

In 1980, 147 artists from 23 countries contributed 300 copies of their original stampart to an epic feat of zine making and mail art: VILE no. 7. Pioneering Canadian American artist, publisher, performance artist and printer, Anna Banana collaborated with her partner and Californian artist and publisher Bill Gaglione; they set out to mimic the infamous satire of FILE by General Idea of Toronto, which parodied LIFE Magazine. 147 copies of this edition were returned to the artists, so only 153 copies ever circulated. VILE was a surrealist mockery of popular culture, often putting truly shocking images on their covers, but serving as a platform for stamp art and handmade prints, a form which enabled artists to crank out quantities of high-impact messaging at low cost.

Largely acknowledged as a forerunner of mail art, Anna Banana was a smart collaborator, an efficient hard worker, and she lit people up with her fiery imagination. Contributors include Wolfgang Huber, artist, printer, graphic designer, and a central figure in the underground of East Germany during the Cold War. Also included is Bern Porter, the scientist Philosopher artist and poet widely credited as an early practitioner of “Found Poetry”, whose page is torn out of a novel with the words “stamped (invisible)” written in ballpoint pen. A truly unique artifact of international collaboration and publishing. Rare in the trade. Domestic insurance included.