| Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Rick Smith |
| Website | yehudamoon.com |
| Current status / schedule | On hiatus (final status unclear) |
| Launch date | January 22, 2008 |
Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery is a daily webcomic created by Ohio resident[1] Rick Smith.[2]
The strip chronicles the adventures and challenges of Yehuda Moon. The titular character runs a bike shop, the Kickstand Cyclery, with his friend Joe, and is often confronted with the challenges presented by his daily bicycle commute and the customers (or lack thereof) at his bike shop. Various characters include: the bike ninja, the bike hypochondriac, the ghost of the previous owner - Fred, the Shakers who build the bicycle frames, Thistle who works in the shop with Yehuda and Joe, neighborhood kids, roadies, and commuters. Yehuda advocates simple, traditional, functional biking as espoused by the philosophy of Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works.[3] His shop partner Joe acts as a foil to Yehuda and prefers a more performance- or racing-oriented style. In recent strips, the Kickstand has burned to the ground and a new shop is being constructed.
The author admires the work of Harold Gray, Chester Gould, Frank King,[4] and James Kochalka.[5]
Two print collections, together reprinting the first 13 months of strips, are available.[6]
As of September 2011, the comic stopped updating, and a strip was posted that simply read "That's all, Folks." [7] The author has indicated that he is working to cancel active subscriptions, and also that he is stopping the strip due to the demands of his day job and family. A final strip, echoing the visuals and structure of the very first strip, was subsequently posted. [8]