Due to Eric's vacation and my own isolation from the outside world (I'm trapped by various things academic) I thought I'd post some sketches I made a while back for a cartoon I never completed because of time constraints and quality concerns. At the time I didn't think the drawings were very good, and I didn't have time to improve upon them, but in retrospect it doesn't seem all that bad, and I still think the subject a funny one. So without further ado, Vladimir Putin explains Tummygate: