High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anna Banana (born 1940) is a Canadian female artist, performer, writer and small press publisher. Banana officially changed her birth name, Anne Lee Long, in 1984 and based her current name on a nickname received at the age of thirty. She received the nickname following an exercise where she was required to fall backwards onto a box of bananas. She has been described as an "innovator, entrepreneur and critic" and pioneered the postage-size medium, the "artistamp". As a publisher, Banana launched VILE magazine and the "Banana Rag" newsletter, with the latter transformed into Artistamp News in 1996.