Original Art Fundraiser

 

The piece I did for a charity fundraiser is up on eBay. It's for a good cause, so if you love Captain America and our troops, I hope you'll bid. All proceeds will go to the college fund for a fallen soldier's daughters. In a war full of heroic sacrifice, Tom Rabjohn's story stands out.

 

Tom Rabjohn was serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan. He had finished disarming one bomb, and then noticed a second. He cleared out the rest of the troops, but it went off before he could disarm it. 

 

Tom was a Phoenix police officer in his civilian life. The auction has been organized by his fellow officers. They're auctioning off both the B&W Bristol paper original, and an Epson photo print of my computer colors for the piece, the same size as the original artwork.

The picture recounts a story from The Avengers #4 (1964), after Captain America has fallen off the flying bomb that Bucky is disarming. Jack Kirby had served on the frontlines in Normandy, and I suspect this was a small tribute to the friends he lost there.

Here are some links about Staff Sergeant Rabjohn:

KTVK: Friends, family honor fallen soldier Thomas Rabjohn 

KTVK: Funeral held for police officer killed in Afghanistan

YouTube: Staff Sergeant Thomas Rabjohn Memorial Photos

YouTube: A Hero Returns Home: Remembering Phoenix Police Officer Thomas Rabjohn