Christy McKenzie is co-conspirator, business manager, and publisher of Flip City magazine. In early 2020, together with her husband Scott, they began printing and distributing their expression of dissent against controlled media narratives, censorship, and woke cancel-culture as a physical comic satire magazine. McKenzie recognizes the importance of providing a release valve for the pressure built up by all the horrors forced on the common man and is happy to provide some laughs for the awaked (NOT WOKE) masses. Flip City is relentless in the pursuit of making America laugh again and is currently publishing the 19th edition. You can read a a FREE magazine by visiting the FlipCityMag.com and find all their links at LinkTree.
McKenzie and I discuss how print can succeed in the digital age, the importance of 100% independence in content creation, what satire is and why ridiculing bad ideas is so vital to reclaiming the culture “one laugh at a time,” Flip City’s comparison to Mad Magazine, what the Babylon Bee had to say about Flip City, how pushing back against the madness can be lonely business, and much more!
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I’ve tried my hand at satire before with the essays “Coronavirus fanfiction 2023” and “The NDAA is anti-Semitic,” interviewed the piano-playing satirist known as Foundring, and paid homage to the satirical skills of my late friend Matthew Silber. So I get how difficult it can be pulling off cultural criticism as comedy. But when you get it right like Flip City, clever jokes and funny images images can truly become a revolutionary act, especially in “our humorless age” brimming with “lacking lackeys.” Plus, it just makes ya feel good. Like Lord Byron wrote, “Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine.” And Lord knows, our sick society sure could use it.
