Well, it's been 233 years since the world's greatest de-pantsing and we're still rockin' in the free world! HAVE A HAPPY FOURTH, MY FELLOW YANKEE DOODLERS!

Thanks everybody. I'll do this once again down the line.

I've e-mailed the winner and let him know he is the proud owner of a bit of blogoshpere history.

This is the recent cover illustration I did for Allen Forkum's "Automotive Report".

This is the actual artwork displayed on my June 16, '09 post (see this archive for Reuters photograph) I thought it might be fun to put these two "notorious" caricatures on the auction block. Have fun and good luck!

LEFT: Ayatollah Khamenei
7" x 11"
graphite on bristol board

RIGHT: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
7" x 10.25"
watercolor on paper

I will include in the sale price an actual Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about the Berlin rally cut from that day's paper, June 20, 2009

BIDS ARE ONLY FOR BOTH PIECES PURCHASED TOGETHER.

All bids taken through this post's comment thread.

Bidding starts $300

Bids increase in increments of $10 ($10, $20, $30 etc.....)

Final bid will be accepted up to 12noon eastern time Thursday, July 2. (The official time is what my website clock says.)

This is Decatur's local music legend and poet extraordinaire. And an entirely good egg, too.

This would be a story how three generations of the Gundersons experienced military life through the '60's, '80's and now.