Thoughts and prayers needed

This certainly isn't the type of thing I expected to write when I began this blog for SND. I learned last night that Jim Kuykendall, a terrific graphic artist at the Hartford Courant, has been moved to a hospice because of the pancreatic cancer he's been battling for some time. Melanie Shaffer, design director at the Courant, said the news was stunning. "He has been so upbeat and lighthearted about his condition, always cracking little jokes, but then we got the news today," Melanie wrote.
Send a card or flowers here: The Connecticut Hospice 100 Double Beach Road, Branford, CT 06405; (203) 315-7500
If you never checked out Jim's portfolio on the old Newspagedesigner, you really missed some nice work. I met him at a New England awards banquet a year or two ago. Nice guy and a fellow native Floridian. Here are a few samples, plus a photo of Jim in a triathlon back in 2000. If anyone has a link to his work, please pass it on.