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Don Lomax
BornDonald Lomax
September 14, 1944
IL
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Artist, Inker
Notable works
Vietnam Journal
www.lomaxcomics.com

Don Lomax (born 1944) is an American comic book writer/artist best known for his long-running comic Vietnam Journal. A veteran of the Vietnam War, much of Lomax's adrenaline-fueled work centers on the military experience, and its gritty, unflinching depiction of the reality of war, specifically in Vietnam.

Biography

Early life

Growing up in

Berni Wrightson,[1] as well as the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Blazing Combat.[2]

Military service

Drafted into the

U.S. Army in the fall of 1965, Lomax did his basic training at Fort Knox. In the fall of 1966, he was shipped out to Vietnam on the USS General John Pope,[2] deployed to the 98th Light Equipment Maintenance Company. During his tour of duty, Lomax made notes and sketches which later were incorporated into Vietnam Journal. According to Lomax, the War ". . . opened my eyes. Before I went into the war I trusted everybody, and when I came out I trusted nobody or the government."[2]

Comics

Lomax's first professional comics work was Atilla the Frog for Heavy Metal magazine in 1979.[1] In the early 1980s, he published comics stories in magazines like Cavalier and Hustler Humor, as well as contributing to Fantagraphics' Anything Goes!. Lomax supplied art for Pacific Comics' Twisted Tales, and for back-up stories in First Comics titles like American Flagg!, Starslayer, and The Black Flame.

Vietnam Journal and Desert Storm Journal

In 1987, after doing some work for the fledgling publisher Apple Comics, Lomax pitched Apple editor Michael Catron his proposal for Vietnam Journal. Given the concurrent success of Vietnam-related films like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Catron agreed to Lomax's proposal.[2] Between 1987 and 1991, Apple published 16 issues of Vietnam Journal, which then spawned a selection of limited series and one-shots. Vietnam Journal tells the fictional adventures of war correspondent Scott "Journal" Neithammer.

During this period, Apple also published Lomax's four-issue limited series High Shining Brass, collecting the Vietnam War stories of Robert Durand.

Vietnam Journal collections were published by Apple Comics in 1987 and 1991.[3] The publisher went bankrupt in 1994; right at that time Lomax published new Vietnam Journal material in the short-lived Dark Horse Comics series Harvey Kurtzman's The New Two-Fisted Tales. Vietnam Journal was later revived as a monthly full-page strip from 2002 to 2006 by Gallery.

Transfuzion Publishing
.

In 2004, iBooks published Lomax's Gulf War Journal, featuring the further adventures of "Journal" Neithammer. This time Journal is covering the

Operation Iraqi Freedom
.

Other comics work

In 1992–1993, Lomax wrote

The Punisher
, and others.

He has also had comics and cartoons appear in dozens of national magazines, including Easyriders, Heavy Metal, CARtoons, various truck magazines, and numerous

pornographic
magazines.

His weekly comic, "Boomer Hayes" is created in collaboration with Steven Calitri of American Towman Magazine.

Some of Lomax's recent and ongoing projects include Guard Tales, a nonfiction strip about

Model Railroading
Magazine from 1998 to 2006.

Personal life

Lomax lives in Illinois with his second wife Zenaida. He has four children, two of whom have also served in the military.[2]

Bibliography

Comics

  • Twisted Tales (issue 4, August 1983)
  • The 'Nam (issues #70-84, July 1992-September 1993)
  • Vietnam Journal (16 issues, November 1987–April 1991)
  • Vietnam Journal: Bloodbath at Khe Sanh (4 issues, 1992–December 1993)
  • Vietnam Journal: Indian Country (Apple Comics, 1 issue, 1990)
  • High Shining Brass (4 issues, 1990–June 1991)
  • Survive!(Apple Comics, 1 issue, 1992)
  • Vietnam Journal: Tet '68 (6 issues, March 1992 – 1993)
  • Vietnam Journal: The Iron Triangle (Apple Comics, 1 issue, 1993)
  • Vietnam Journal: Valley of Death (1 issues, June–August 1994)

Graphic novels and collections

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lomax profile Archived March 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999.
  2. ^ a b c d e Epstein, Daniel Robert. "Don Lomax's Vietnam Memories,"[permanent dead link] Newsarama (August 28, 2003).
  3. ^ "Vietnam Journal". Grand Comics Database. Archived from the original on 2020-10-07. Retrieved October 7, 2020.

References

  • Don Lomax at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
  • "Don Lomax: An Interview With The Creator of Vietnam Journal," The Comics Journal #136 (July 1990), pp. 86–109.
  • "Don Lomax: An Interview with the creator of Vietnam Journal,and Writer of the Nam' Comic for Marvel 'Vietnam Magazine" (June 2012) pgs 46–51.

External links

Preceded by The 'Nam writer
1992–1993 		Succeeded by
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