Putin of the Year

After seeing the news about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination earlier today, I started rethinking whether I should draw this cartoon about Vladimir Putin at a later date. I started reading the various news accounts, analysis, memorial columns and blog entries about Bhutto, but I thought I would give it some more time to let the story sink into America’s collective consciousness — which has to be in a tryptophan-induced haze right now. Also, the “Time Magazine Person of the Year” story will become stale sooner rather than later. It’s best to get while the gettin’s good, right?