This month marks Jesse Kuhn's one year anniversary working with St. Louis Magazine.

Here's a new illustration her just created for their December 2009 issue, for a year in review article that didn't have a very long list of "great" news to highlight (job losses, political scandals, downtown turnaround, recessionary real estate, changes in crime, etc.).

Jesse notes of the piece, "I liked the theme, 'just keeping afloat,' since it seemed to be a common goal for many businesses/people nationally in 2009."