Here is a press release for an upcoming book talk and cartoon presentation by Twin Cities’ cartoonist Kirk Anderson.

“Is Your Country a Banana Republic?”
Banana Republic: Adventures in Amnesia, by Kirk Anderson
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7:30 pm
Common Good Books
165 Western Ave N, St. Paul
(beneath Nina’s Coffee Cafe at the corner of Western and Selby)

“Is Your Country a Banana Republic?”: Local author and political cartoonist Kirk Anderson will show cartoons from his latest book, BANANA REPUBLIC: Adventures in Amnesia, discuss its timely themes and sign and illustrate books. With America’s funny little banana republic quirks like torture, rendition, surveillance, secret evidence, indefinite imprisonment without charge, an unstable currency and unsupportable foreign debt, we’re not getting rid of our banana republic ways, we’re only getting used to them — even as our republic gets used to its new top banana.

BANANA REPUBLIC is a collection of the weekly, quarter-page cartoons of the same name that ran on the Star Tribune’s opinion page for years. Come on down for a fun, provocative and irreverent presentation.

For more about the book, visit Molotov Comix Press at www.MolotovComix.com

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NEW FROM MOLOTOV COMIX PRESS
The latest collection from political cartoonist Kirk Anderson
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BANANA REPUBLIC
– Adventures in Amnesia –
the small backward Third World nation
with hearts of silver and mines of gold

BANANA REPUBLIC follows the mischievous death squads and hilarious junta hijinks of Amnesia, a zany Third World dictatorship that is the polar opposite of America! In Amnesia, Generalissimo Wally engages in roughhousing practices we would consider unconstitutional in our own country, such as torture, warrentless surveillance, and imprisonment without charge! Why, even secret prisons are not unheard of! Unlike the advanced American system, the Amnesian regime only serves the wealthy elite, not the peasant classes; in fact, politicians openly take money from wealthy businessmen with direct financial
stakes in pending legislation! From the Amnesians’ overflowing prisons to their state propaganda, from their crippling foreign debt to their questionable elections, from their privately contracted paramilitaries to their millions without basic health care, you’ll be chuckling, “Thank God WE don’t live in a banana republic!”

“Kirk Anderson is an outrageously bold and talented cartoonist. [Banana Republic] entertained me hugely… a hilarious education in recent history.” – Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People’s History of the United States